And so it is

My post-graduate academic career has begun. Truth be told it has been just over three weeks. There certainly is a difference between grad school and the undergraduate stuff. To put it differently, I am experiencing secondary socialization through the expressed subjectivity of professors and my cohort. Not only am I internalizing their subjectivity, but the texts I am reading are objectivations of human subjectivity. Ipso facto  I am acquiring a role-specific vocabulary. (Berger, 1966) Essentially, I have spent too much time reading The Social Construction of Reality. I do say that I feel as though my vocabulary has been expanded because of that book. I had to read much of it with the dictionary open, of course in this day and age that meant having my laptop open with my dictionary application running. That certainly comes in handy though when you want multiple examples of said words in a sentence.

I'm not too stressed about the semester. I feel as though I can accomplish all that is required of me. My only qualms so far is that I am totally undecided on my topic for either project for this semester. Some of the others in the cohort feel as though they already have some direction. Well, at least for the quantitative portion. I think that the qualitative ethnography is just too foreign for everyone right now. I feel that once I do some more readings, and have two continuous weeks of ComS 200 in a row, I will feel more comfortable with the whole class. Of course that could just prove to be a rejected hypothesis.