dosen diaries: first year
Somewhere around this month one year ago, a couple of months after graduating from grad school, a friend of mine asked me to join a university he's working at and I said yes. No, it was definitely not at the top of my list as a place for me to dedicate all my life. My first choice was a university where I earned my bachelor's degree located in my hometown. However, there are as many universities as ways to get into the universities. Long story short I keep my eyes open to any opportunities. The longer story is that the university I was looking forward to getting into is a public university, they did not really have any openings at that time, and even when they eventually had any openings several months later on, the department I would love to apply and being part of sadly did not open. Even though I know it's not a guarantee I would be accepted even if it did open and I did apply. So, here I am, a one-year-old lecturer at a small private university located at the frontier, ...