fox: my left eye.  "ceci n'est pas une fox." (not-fox)
fox ([personal profile] fox) wrote2004-04-21 10:15 am
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STOP PRESS

update: so i'm looking through an e-mail, with a chain of replies, between self and the secretary of the Lx department at oxford -- and i see where she told me, on december 4, that the MPhil (which is what i've been accepted for) is a two-year degree, the one-year version of which (MSt, Master of Studies?) has a lower pass mark and no thesis. (my feeling is, with all apologies to mr. jefferson's university, i have that degree already.)

[identity profile] fafou.livejournal.com 2004-04-21 07:48 am (UTC)(link)
So wait-you've been accepted to get a degree that you already have?

[identity profile] harriet-spy.livejournal.com 2004-04-21 09:26 am (UTC)(link)
The M.St. is generally a scam to bring in foreign students/rich slackers and their tuition $$$. It has no actual purpose and won't be recognized as counting towards grown-up graduate education later. So, yes, it's the M.Phil. you want.