well, it’s (almost) official. i heard from my advisor on friday that i have to TA for the same course again in the fall semester this year. i don’t know anything about anybody else’s teaching assignments, and i don’t know when the ‘official’ list will be released. i am disappointed, because this means i’ll have to delay graduation by a year. i pushed myself pretty hard up to this point to stay on the four-year plan, including overloading coursework my first semester, taking summer classes, and reaching candidacy on time despite teaching early. i guess i didn’t push hard enough — there just aren’t enough hours in the day to get all my results by january if i am teaching this course in the fall. i’ll probably finish up in summer 2008 instead of spring, and then figure out a way to delay the defense so i can stick around and continue to get paid while writing papers and doing the job search.
the good news, though, is that this gives me a bit more time to crank out those three papers i’ve been working on this summer, which will make me a stronger job candidate. and, at least i won’t have to look for a postdoc.
and the really good news is that i have an advisor-approved outline of the research i plan to do for my dissertation, and it is time to start looking for committee members. that’s going to have to wait until after the GROUP paper deadline, though.
