Next month I get my Master's degree in writing popular fiction from Seton Hill University. This has got to be the biggest scam in all of academia! I write books and get a degree for it.
Of course, I chose this program because it would allow me to continue my education (as required for teachers by the State of Michigan) without adding much to my already formidable workload. It just feels like a scam.
For my thesis, I had to write a novel in two and a half years. I told my advisor, "I don't know if I can write that slow, but I'll try." Trickster, my thesis novel, was finished eight months later! I love it.
--Steven
Congratulations, Steven. Rather than being a scam, it is a small and largely symbolic recognition what you have already accomplished.
Posted by: Catherine Shaffer | May 30, 2004 at 07:09 PM
Congrats, Steven!
>>"I don't know if I can write that slow, but I'll try."
Hee, hee, hee!
Posted by: Erica | June 04, 2004 at 04:53 PM
I thought that German would be easy, back in 64 cause we threw it around in the house, but it was really challenging. Endings and all that. Good to see it is going well on your trip. My puter crashed and I am writing from the complimentary puter here at the boat dock in Harrisville. A gem of a port. Beautifull scenery, over a hundred Canadian geese with their young ones etc. Here with Indul and wife and Mr. K. Heading back tommorow. Love you. Greetings to your mother and Sasha. Dad
Posted by: Wally Piziks | July 05, 2010 at 09:47 PM