I made a visit to Cal State L.A. on Monday to meet with my grad school academic advisor. During the meeting, I selected specific courses I planned on taking for my master's degree.
My advisor seemed a little detached about the whole process. I asked her about career opportunities after I finish my degree and she told me to contact the career center.
When I was at UC Irvine I made a few visits to its career center and it was not helpful. When I asked about jobs for English majors, the counselors would just tell me to browse through some of the books they had to find out more information.
I don't plan on making a visit to Cal State L.A.'s career center. I doubt they will be of any particular help.
A side note: during my academic advisement, a woman came into the room and said my name wasn't in their computer. There was no record of me.
Later on I found out, when I visited the admissions office, that the school had just started using a new registrar system and that every student's name had not yet been added to the records.
Today, I was reading through the syllabus for one of the classes I'll be taking in the summer (graduate research and methodology) and I learned that we'll be studying Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, Pope's "The Rape Of The Lock" and Shakespeare's King Lear.
What kind of mess have I gotten myself into? I don't see the point in studying obscure poetry and centuries-old literature that has little connection with the modern world or my personal life. I've done that one too many times as an undegrad.
Since my visit to CSLA, I've been frantically searching for literary-related work on monsterjobs.com. If I can get hired somewhere using my writing/editing/proof-reading skills, I will revoke my statement of intent for graduate study.
By the way, some of my favorite writers are: Anton Chekov, Elizabeth Kaye and Raymond Carver.
