Yesterday was my last day of work at my Turkish newspaper. Now you may be thinking to yourself “Hey self, isn’t Scott in America now? How would he be working at his Turkish newspaper?”
Do not get strung up on this, my simple friend. You see, thanks to the power of the Information Superhighway (aka the “Internet”), computers now have the ability to connect to other computers through the power 2400 baud telephone modems, providers such as Prodigy and Compuserve, and Windows 93 software.
OK, enough geek hubris. I was working from my laptop in America these past three weeks and yesterday was my last day working. This marks the end of a job that I held for a solid year. While it definintely had its perks, it also had enough downsides to make me not regret leaving. But the principle reason I’m not there anymore is that I will be starting grad school in the fall. The school that I will be attending is Bilgi University, located in Istanbul. I will spend my time with 9 other graduate students, doing our best to dissect the complicated animal that is the Ottoman Empire. As long as I don’t get too lackidaisical, I should be out of there in two years, and will have one of those diplomas that qualifies to do precisely two things: 1) teach the subject that you just learned 2) go to yet more school to learn more about the subject so I can teach it.
So there you go. If I were a more licentious person I would have an Irish wake for my job. Instead, I will do the next best thing and use a frown emoticon if I am ever instant messaging my former co-workers
Are the 9 other students Americans? or Turks? Or a heterogeneous mixture of folks?
A mix. There’s me, two germans and someone else of indetermined extraction. We’re multicultural. Does your Wheaton ESL posse have multicultural cred?
Actually, I am not sure yet. I haven’t met a single person in my program. I am assuming we’re multicultural as well. I start classes at the end of the month at which time I should have more insight into the ethnic heritage of the “ESL posse”.
congrats on getting into grad school, i’ll be coming by to visit in January. I’m fixing to be in the same boat in about a year to a year and a half. Grace and Peace
isnt it princiPAL?