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staring down the barrel of the end of the semester
already! didn't i just get here? and now i'm about to graduate? man, when you do one four-year degree, a three-semester one goes by like that. [snaps fingers] seriously.
the good news: the Random W has, in fact, been removed from my transcript. should now be safe to order transcripts to send along with PhD applications.
the bad news: still have not begun statement of purpose. feel alarmingly like bridget jones in this respect; will just deal with scratchy nail first. might as well take off all nail varnish and start again while i'm thinking about it. will get to work once am really in position to concentrate. lunchtime!
the mixed news: finished the assignment due tomorrow at 9 am. graded the papers to hand back to the kids i told not to come to class last week. searched through first 1000 of 3400+ library listings that came up when i searched for "russian language" (or possibly just "russian"), for two of the three biggish papers i need to get cracking on. (the third is in psych, and i've gotten cracking b/c the intro was due a week or so ago. it came back last tuesday -- A-. go me.) this is not quite as impressive as it seems, as vast majority of hits actually in russian or other slavic languages (when transliterated into roman alphabet it's very hard to tell), with a healthy smattering of titles in german and at least a couple in chinese and a couple in french. i do read french, but none of the others, so i've been skimming through looking for english titles and then seeing if they have any relevance. have e-mailed listings including call numbers to self. will print out and head to library at some date in the near future. however. have not read any of approx. 100 pages for meeting tomorrow at 5 w/ psych prof and classmate re: leading class discussion on thursday. thursday is obviously one time will not be possible to coast by only having done part of the reading. also, have no handout/assignment prepared for tomorrow/tuesday, and cannot call off class for second week running. will have to prepare something between lecture and discussion tomorrow, i.e. between noon and 3pm, which is time will need for psych reading.
bright side: there's not a ton of time for this to get totally out of control. it's snowballing, but the hill isn't very steep. :-/
the good news: the Random W has, in fact, been removed from my transcript. should now be safe to order transcripts to send along with PhD applications.
the bad news: still have not begun statement of purpose. feel alarmingly like bridget jones in this respect; will just deal with scratchy nail first. might as well take off all nail varnish and start again while i'm thinking about it. will get to work once am really in position to concentrate. lunchtime!
the mixed news: finished the assignment due tomorrow at 9 am. graded the papers to hand back to the kids i told not to come to class last week. searched through first 1000 of 3400+ library listings that came up when i searched for "russian language" (or possibly just "russian"), for two of the three biggish papers i need to get cracking on. (the third is in psych, and i've gotten cracking b/c the intro was due a week or so ago. it came back last tuesday -- A-. go me.) this is not quite as impressive as it seems, as vast majority of hits actually in russian or other slavic languages (when transliterated into roman alphabet it's very hard to tell), with a healthy smattering of titles in german and at least a couple in chinese and a couple in french. i do read french, but none of the others, so i've been skimming through looking for english titles and then seeing if they have any relevance. have e-mailed listings including call numbers to self. will print out and head to library at some date in the near future. however. have not read any of approx. 100 pages for meeting tomorrow at 5 w/ psych prof and classmate re: leading class discussion on thursday. thursday is obviously one time will not be possible to coast by only having done part of the reading. also, have no handout/assignment prepared for tomorrow/tuesday, and cannot call off class for second week running. will have to prepare something between lecture and discussion tomorrow, i.e. between noon and 3pm, which is time will need for psych reading.
bright side: there's not a ton of time for this to get totally out of control. it's snowballing, but the hill isn't very steep. :-/