I'm An Acorn

So, after spending a total of three nights in my own bed - having been in Newfoundland for thirty-one nights and Toronto for another two - I'm back on the road again in Lincoln, Nebraska. Having been invited to be am exam reader for the Advanced Placement European History for five years now, I was finally able to accept - apparently I can do it undermy F-1 visa as Curricular Practical Training or CPT. No one told me that was possible for the past two years, otherwise I would have been here for two years ago.

Anyway, so we are at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln reading some 90,000 exams over the next seven days. As I'm a first year, my name tag as a little tag on it with the College Board's logo - which features an acorn.
All first years have this on their name badge, hence the fact that all first year readers are called acorns. Kind of a nice or at least unique way to say rookie.

So, I'm here until the end of next week and then I look forward to a summer in Athens (for the most part), organizing and analyzing the data that I collected for my dissertation, hopefully doing some writing on manuscripts that I have let slide a bit, and just taking it a little easier for a change.

Tags: Advanced Placement, AP, graduate student, graduate students, graduate school, higher education, education