Grad School will be awesome.

So I finally got to talk to a human being at the graduate school. For those of you who went to Hanover picture John Ahrens only less cursing and more irreverent.

I asked him what I need to do between now and when I show up and he said "Well...not really anything. We don't have any money to give you..." and then he bitched for a bit about how the student union organized to get higher wages which meant that they have less positions available.

Apparently I can just show up and schedule classes whenever and they don't have a set curriculum. In the second year they have a test that covers the basical history one need know to teach intro and he said, "Say there's a section on Descartes. That's just going to cover the Meditations. And you can figure that out for yourself."

I love academia. God I love academia. No one knows what is going on and no one really seems to care.

At the end of the call I said, "Well, I know it's the end of the day there so I'll let you go. I'll call back in a few days with questions about the course selection. And I wanted to say thank you for accepting me and rescuing me from Real Life."

He chuckled and said, "Yeah, we'll have to talk about that 'Real Life' thing."

I can't fucking wait. This is going to be so awesome.