Sunday, January 13, 2008

On Terrible Life Choices

What does one do in grad school?
Why take classes of course. This semester will see Ben take three courses at Temple, one at Princeton Seminary, and two private reading courses with profs. So, if you must call us for a chat,by George, call Toni! BTW, the classes are pretty interesting this spring: Cold War and Destalinization, International, Transnational, and Globalization History, 20th Century US History, and the Search for a Christian Nation (Religion and Politics). Each has a reading list of about twenty books and 10,000 words of writing. Someone once told me, "Grad students aren't bad people, they just make terrible life choices." Life couldn't be better.

4 comments:

Marnee said...

Nice to see you happy, Ben!
Love, Mom

John & Stacie said...

That doesn't sound like much fun to me! Do we need to send you some more L'Orange coffee to keep you going?

Toni M. Brandenburg said...

Technically it's a "want" not a "need". But now that Ill be teaching at Princeton, its even more desirable.

Katie Stemp said...

I can definitely relate to the terrible life choices... why oh why do we do this to ourselves?? Thankfully my workload isn't quite as heavy as yours!!