EVOLUTE99's Common Place

I was trying to come up with a creative process that would yield better reading comprehension. I always work best in one hour blocks, which allows me not to invest so much time on one project. I get carried away sometimes and forget I have other projects I need to complete. The reading portion of this exercise is pretty straight forward. Get timer set it for 30 mins and just read. As usual, stay in constant dialogue as you read. Annotate your text. Underline or make passage that are intriguing, circle words that are unfamiliar. So pretty much do what you do. I would find my self reading for an hour straight and not really getting involved with the text. I would jump of after reading and really never let the information soak in. So I needed to develop a process that was efficient for future projects involving the information I was reading. The key here, was thinking ahead. I would spend more time rescanning a text if I didn't take the time to organize my thoughts after reading. Be

Recently, I finished a seminar on Henry James. The class read some very intense novels: such as. The Bostonians and The Wings of the Dove. I was disappointed that we didn't read The Ambassadors. So I asked my professor why. She said it was a very challenging novel that needs to be read at a pace of 5 pages a day. So that sounded like a fun challenge for the summer. So after I walk across the stage I will be picking up Henry James' The Ambassadors and venturing into a 5 page a day experiment. I will be reading the Norton Critical Edition 335 pages which = 65 days.

Where I stand. I'm trying not to be bitter. So if I sound that way, I apologize. I recently failed to get accepted into a graduate program that I really wanted to get into. I feel that I'm qualified and understand their reasoning. I have applied to other schools as well. However, I seriously thinking about hanging it up. I cannot afford to take post bat classes. So what to do now? Well I'm considering not going to graduate school at all. I have a chance to work a decent job that will not interfere with my evenings and I also have a chance to do quite a bit of substitute teaching. I really don't want to get my teaching certificate, for I have a hard time dealing with authority. I'm sure as hell not going to be teaching toward a test. I really want to take some time to refocus and build stronger writing skills and get better at grammar and diction. I had this great idea. Why not become purely self taught. Nothing against higher education, and I have all the respect