Two down, two to go
Apr. 26th, 2010 02:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
philenaI passed my MA exam on Friday. Professor Oakes ended up being something like 50 minutes late because he forgot it was at 9:00 instead of 10:00. As it turned out, the extra time to prepare was very helpful. I made some joke last week about having an optional meeting of a research group even though the exam was coming up, because, really, if an extra hour would have made a difference that soon before the exam, I have bigger problems with my degree than simply passing this hurdle. However, it turned out that that extra not-even-an-hour did, in fact, make a difference---perhaps not in terms of cramming, but in terms of reviewing a paper and getting my thoughts about a new field semi-organized so that I could talk about them when asked*. Also, it helps to start the exam knowing that, no matter what happens, I will not have been the first person to screw up.
Also, I finished my MA paper. Professor Dot emailed me last night letting me know that she's ready to sign off on my paper as soon as I fix two typos, and also suggesting that I think about an outlet for publishing it. Yay!
All that remains now is to write my beastly paper for Professor Famous, as well as my far less beastly paper for Field Methods. And grading all those homeworks and exams. And writing up that squiblet thing on bilingualism in Quechua. And--but I think I'll stop now.
*It was really only semi-organized. I didn't fool anyone about actually being an expert. Professor Hall gave me some very nice feedback in which she essentially said that I needed to have a more structured understanding of the field of sentence processing---and it was totally not my fault, because I haven't been able to take any classes in the field recently, but I still need to work on that.
Also, I finished my MA paper. Professor Dot emailed me last night letting me know that she's ready to sign off on my paper as soon as I fix two typos, and also suggesting that I think about an outlet for publishing it. Yay!
All that remains now is to write my beastly paper for Professor Famous, as well as my far less beastly paper for Field Methods. And grading all those homeworks and exams. And writing up that squiblet thing on bilingualism in Quechua. And--but I think I'll stop now.
*It was really only semi-organized. I didn't fool anyone about actually being an expert. Professor Hall gave me some very nice feedback in which she essentially said that I needed to have a more structured understanding of the field of sentence processing---and it was totally not my fault, because I haven't been able to take any classes in the field recently, but I still need to work on that.