*exhale*

[fox]

my department has approved my staying for the DPhil, on the condition that i hand in a satisfactory performance on the MPhil exams (which is normal, to impose that condition).

not that i seriously thought there was a chance they wouldn't?  but, the thing wasn't signed and in my hand before, and now it is.

Comments

[shezan.livejournal.com]

Brilliant! So how much longer does that mean in Oxford?

(and am reading The Brideshead Generation (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0395441420/qid=1137451108/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_0_1/026-0865315-7530837), much recommended. Would love your take on it.)

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

one more year after this one, assuming i don't irrevocably fuck up the MPhil -- after that i'll have discharged my fee-paying and residency responsibilities, so even assuming i don't finish the DPhil in one year (or three years, being MPhil+1) i won't have to live here anymore. not that i don't like it, but the east coast of the US is cheaper. :-)