Intimidation factor
Today I was given the best news a graduate student could have, second only to being informed that you passed your defense. This semester I am a research assistant to a professor in the Journalism and Media department at UNLV. He informed me this morning that he intends to add my name to the research paper that I am helping him collect data for! And here I thought my academic progress was going to halt completely because I wasn’t able to teach, wrong.
We are only in the infant stages of our project, but he is quite excited about it and to tell you the truth, so am I. It is a little unerving to think that my name will accompany some as reputable as a scholarly article that will no doubt go into a academic journal. It raises the intimidation factor just a tad. But I’m excited, it means that I will have something to show for myself, other than a thesis paper of course. More updates will come on this project of ours, can’t give away too much too soon.
I told some people close to me today, but didn’t quite get the reaction I was hoping for. That is what happens I guess when you completely enter graduate school, nobody can really understand unless the’ve walked the halls.
