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bedlamsbardGUYS I AM FINALLY REGISTERED FOR THE HONORS THESIS. I THOUGHT IT WOULD NEVER HAPPEN.
Huh, I should get my prospectus to my second reader so that he can sign off on it. It's an idea. (Today: a better than the past couple days! So far today I have not called my mother crying, so that's an upswing.)
I thought today was going to go downhill again after I couldn't make a shuttle reservation for my public service orientation (too close by one business day, which is NOT WHAT IT SAYS RIGHT THERE ON THE FORM), but the site's within walking and/or streetcar distance, so I'll scope it out this weekend and then walk it or streetcar it on the day of. The idea is still sending me into panic attack mode -- it's tutoring middle or high school students at an Uptown charter school; I would do almost anything as long as it's not kids, but that, apparently, is not an option -- but we'll see after the orientation.
As an aside, I am looking at degree audit right now, and yeah, I've definitely taken more higher-level courses in MEMS than in Classics -- six courses 4000+, not counting the thesis, and a higher GPA in that major by, well, .03, so not that much. Am trying to figure out when and where I am most interested in for grad school apps in medieval or early modern history. So far, the vague options are medieval England circa the Norman Conquest, Viking Age Scandinavia and/or Iceland, the Byzantines anytime, and late medieval Italy. So, you know. The outer edges of Europe. (Also, now I want to write a paper and title it "Their Eyes Were Watching Mithras: Paganism in the Post-Classical Mediterranean World," so that's a possible research proposal topic. That's pretty firmly late antique, and I don't know if that generally falls under ancient history or medieval history when those are the only options.)
Also, try number two at a teapot shipped! Hopefully it arrives in one piece on Saturday.
Two quizzes tomorrow, so I shall start studying for those.
Huh, I should get my prospectus to my second reader so that he can sign off on it. It's an idea. (Today: a better than the past couple days! So far today I have not called my mother crying, so that's an upswing.)
I thought today was going to go downhill again after I couldn't make a shuttle reservation for my public service orientation (too close by one business day, which is NOT WHAT IT SAYS RIGHT THERE ON THE FORM), but the site's within walking and/or streetcar distance, so I'll scope it out this weekend and then walk it or streetcar it on the day of. The idea is still sending me into panic attack mode -- it's tutoring middle or high school students at an Uptown charter school; I would do almost anything as long as it's not kids, but that, apparently, is not an option -- but we'll see after the orientation.
As an aside, I am looking at degree audit right now, and yeah, I've definitely taken more higher-level courses in MEMS than in Classics -- six courses 4000+, not counting the thesis, and a higher GPA in that major by, well, .03, so not that much. Am trying to figure out when and where I am most interested in for grad school apps in medieval or early modern history. So far, the vague options are medieval England circa the Norman Conquest, Viking Age Scandinavia and/or Iceland, the Byzantines anytime, and late medieval Italy. So, you know. The outer edges of Europe. (Also, now I want to write a paper and title it "Their Eyes Were Watching Mithras: Paganism in the Post-Classical Mediterranean World," so that's a possible research proposal topic. That's pretty firmly late antique, and I don't know if that generally falls under ancient history or medieval history when those are the only options.)
Also, try number two at a teapot shipped! Hopefully it arrives in one piece on Saturday.
Two quizzes tomorrow, so I shall start studying for those.
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Date: 2011-09-16 01:27 am (UTC)I ended up doing an MA thesis on race and landscape, when I'd expected to be working on the archaeology of gender (it's a long and not very interesting story). But the prof I learned the most from, and who remains someone I go to for advice (and crash space, when I'm on the East Coast), was the cultural anthropologist whose interviews I got assigned to transcribe as part of my assistantship.
You don't have to have all the answers this week.
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Date: 2011-09-16 02:09 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-09-16 08:27 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-09-17 06:25 pm (UTC)