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[Craig Frizzell]

I'm currently finishing up my first year in graduate school, for a Master's
in Political Science.  My research assistant position is rather cushy -
plenty of time to do research/work for class rather than doing "real" work.
I suppose you could ask me in another 5 or 6 years after I get a PhD and am
teaching in a University, but I'm really looking forward to the day.  All
the pleasures of teaching, with a few differences:

1) The people I will be teaching are (mostly) there by choice, and are
taking my courses because of a general interest in the topic, and not
because they're forced to.  Although I've heard that it's nice being able to
call up parents when kids start to slack off, <g>

2) Not only do I get to teach, but the University (and even the government!)
will give me money to conduct research on topics that interest me
(particularly the effects of entertainment media (music, film, television,
literature) on political attitudes... I'm seeing a great research project
down the road on how certain elements of HP (SPEW, for one) affect
children's political beliefs).

The worst thing about the grad student life, as many of you know, is the
damn papers -- which I shall now get back to working on.

Craig