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| Monday, August 06, 2007 |
| No regrets |
Today I hauled my old textbooks to the Med Library and donated them. Some of them, at least, will still be relevant... like the Anatomy of the Head & Neck text, or the Acoustics text that was the sole reason I passed that subject, having missed all but two of the lectures (...err, mostly due to illness rather than laziness). Walking through the back of the hospital where Speech Pathology & Audiology share quarters with the Medical School, I felt a familiar pang of uncertainty. Particularly noting the advertisement posted for the new graduate position offered every year in the Speech department... apparently new grad Speechies are worth a little over $47,000 a year. So, let's see, if I HAD looked for a Speech position after graduating, and I HAD moved into an acute care position after a year or so, I'd have, what, five years of experience behind me... yes, I'd be on the edge of a nervous breakdown, but I'd be earning more than $19.50 an hour for my troubles. And I'd be working in a Real Job, where people do Further Study and have topics of interest to discuss at parties.
The library accepted my donation without even looking at the books - convenient, as I was also taking the opportunity to get rid of my Organic Chemistry and first year Biology texts, as well as one of Mr Ata's books - simply entitled, "Computers" - and I didn't feel like hauling them up Cardiac Hill to the main campus library. On the way back out, I stopped to look at the list of placements & supervisors for the Masters courses in Audiology and Speech Pathology. I ran my eyes down the list and checked off names. She was in the year above me, I studied with her and her, she was one of my lecturers, he was my first supervisor... as I updated myself with who was working where, I realised I was grinning an idiot grin as a wash of emotion settled over me like a veil. Relief.
Oh yeah. I made the right choice. |
posted by Ata @ 6:48 pm  |
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The library accepted my donation without even looking at the books
Which is no guarantee that they'll end up on the shelves. Normally any books that are donated just get taken and added into a pile for a librarian to look at and judge whether or not they fit in with the collection development policy. Your books may end up in some sort of book sale. ;) But I'm sure they appreciated it anyway!
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Most of what I handed over was copies of standard texts for the Speech course taught at that location - so they already have multiple copies of them on the shelves, and were consistently short of even the older editions - but the others may wind up getting sent to the main campus library... or possibly find their way to a second-hand textbooks table. Either way, I don't care - I figured they'd go to better use in a Uni library than being dropped off at the local council library, and I just didn't want to be told to take them to the main campus 'cause it's a bit of a hike up a Very Steep Hill!
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The library accepted my donation without even looking at the books
Which is no guarantee that they'll end up on the shelves. Normally any books that are donated just get taken and added into a pile for a librarian to look at and judge whether or not they fit in with the collection development policy. Your books may end up in some sort of book sale. ;) But I'm sure they appreciated it anyway!