#academiaproblems

Paper Reading Day

Researchers: Ever got scooped?

Guess I'm gonna bullshit about the human experience for 2,000 words

I'm so tired from thinking and thinking and not getting anywhere. I've never had so many thoughts that I couldn't express, that I couldn't make sense of; I've never had to come back from class and, not do homework, not study for an exam, but simply sit, think, and type. I have running Word documents of the tangents zooming in all different directions in my head, and the neverending connections that I'm making between classes, readings, and my own experiences; I hear all these different voices constantly arguing and self-editing each other. Professors, fellow students, the authors of the readings, other people and sources in my life that I look up to and respect- one overlapping the other. And as I stand amid the tempest, trying to sift through them all, I realize that I still don't have an understanding of what I'm supposed to, how I'm supposed to go out and take on the world's troubles, or even where I stand on them. But, the thing that remains most foreign and elusive is trying to figure out who on earth I am, and I don't even know where to begin.