Oh... smegging hell.
Nov. 23rd, 2006 08:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
clo_againSo it's week seven of our term now. I knew on an abstract level that I was meant to have written a quarter of my dissertation by the end of this term but we were told tutors wouldn't read it, we'd just have to bring it along and basically summarise it for them verbally. We were *told* this. Hence, my non-worrying. At all. To the point where I've *not started reading anything*.
So this email? Not reassuring.
You should let me have in advance the required written material: that is, about 2.5k words which represents a probable first chapter. Please note that I do not read all of this carefully, but speed-read in it to ensure you're on roughly the right track. Our meeting can then be used to discuss any issues arising from your work so far.
Hi, I am Clo and my weekend is going to be spent doing dissertation work. Yeah. This is possibly why I shouldn't have sat around doing nothing for the last two months. At least I've got yet another two-day-week next week and my Shakespeare essay isn't in until after Christmas but factor in the fact this weekend will be my last free one before that meeting so oh, minus around seven days from the total of days left...
*goes away to count that. ShutupI'manEnglishstudent;)*
Okay, leaving out the days I'll be busy with seminars and visiting people and home trips... eleven days. To read three books (admittedly one of those is The Hobbit so, you know. Not so much a hardship), buy and read research books of an-as-yet-variable number and write 2,500 words. Oh and I should probably actually read at least a few of the *nine Shakespeare plays* we were meant to have read this term, of which I have read, as of right now? None.
Ah English students. We do love our stressful little moments. :) Sometimes I wonder if I do it to myself on purpose for more of a challenge and then I think no, actually I'm just lazy.
So this email? Not reassuring.
You should let me have in advance the required written material: that is, about 2.5k words which represents a probable first chapter. Please note that I do not read all of this carefully, but speed-read in it to ensure you're on roughly the right track. Our meeting can then be used to discuss any issues arising from your work so far.
Hi, I am Clo and my weekend is going to be spent doing dissertation work. Yeah. This is possibly why I shouldn't have sat around doing nothing for the last two months. At least I've got yet another two-day-week next week and my Shakespeare essay isn't in until after Christmas but factor in the fact this weekend will be my last free one before that meeting so oh, minus around seven days from the total of days left...
*goes away to count that. ShutupI'manEnglishstudent;)*
Okay, leaving out the days I'll be busy with seminars and visiting people and home trips... eleven days. To read three books (admittedly one of those is The Hobbit so, you know. Not so much a hardship), buy and read research books of an-as-yet-variable number and write 2,500 words. Oh and I should probably actually read at least a few of the *nine Shakespeare plays* we were meant to have read this term, of which I have read, as of right now? None.
Ah English students. We do love our stressful little moments. :) Sometimes I wonder if I do it to myself on purpose for more of a challenge and then I think no, actually I'm just lazy.
