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thats what i gotta pay to work on my thessithis summer. just to work on it. meet with a professor once a week. get guidane. la profe would do it for free, but if i'm not enrolled, i couldn't graduate in december... i need to take 2 semesters of thesis, and sequentially, not simultaneously. and i couldn't keep my G.A. position if i don't enroll at least 3 hours. that's so they know they're getting the cash back from me.
working as a graduate student, its not so good. better than trying to not work, cuz this shiot is expensive. but i feel taken advantage of. i was recruited to work of an academic paper (Arts education) turned out i was ineligible,i end up on a relate project but doing a website. that's kool and all. but if i'm doing a website i can go private sector and earn twice as much per hour. i just hope it can balance. thing is, i'm going to be short of cash. not just a little, either. my tuition will go on a credit card i will hopefully pay off my mid july. pero quien sabe. i lost an entire month of salary when the grant was cancelled on the ethnography project i did. that's what got me.
and i'm not even approaching the benefits which are none. at 19 hours a week (that's what i get, if i work more i'm a sucka cuz me, they no pay). so i'm BELOW "part-time" by texas definition. so i'm ineleigible for anything, whether health, vision, dental, retirement, reduced tuition, parking, whadeva. el trabajo no vale nada. it'd be a drop in the bucket to the great state of texas -- but to me, a dentist would be a messiah.

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