Orals, one step at a time…
Working hard on papers and orals lists. It feels good to be framing my questions in terms of reading lists. I can’t help being nervous about my second paper, but I feel really good about the first one. Overall, although it’s stressful, I’m glad to be doing orals this semester. There’s something satisfying about working this hard, having moments this focused day after day. Different from pressure of classes in the past. I feel like I completely own this pressure, I decided to do things this way, to do so many milestones in one semester.
If I could just get past this hurdle with the second paper things would start to feel much more manageable. It’s about the analysis, not the writing, which is a nice change I suppose, after agonizing over the writing of the first paper for weeks.
I spend a lot of time writing in my various brainstorm and journaling spaces on my computer. Here’s a taste–this was brainstorming the text that will tie my three areas of specialization together:
…The core issue I’m interested in is how schools are playing a role in the integration of immigrants in Spain. How does immigrant integration work? What is the role of education policy? How are schools and education policies part of immigrant integration? How are schools changing to respond to new populations of immigrants?…