#agregation

[josysadventures]

The results from the written part of the competitive exam I’m taking this year were published yesterday and I passed! This means I get to advance to the next stage, the orals. They were supposed to take place in person in Paris, which obviously isn’t going to happen now and the plan B is not yet known. Anyway, one step down, one more to go!

[josy57]

If I draw things from books for my competitive exam, does that qualify as studying? 

Ferdinand - The Duchess of Malfi (sketch) by Josy57

I may make a digital version if I get some free time, but that's a big if.

[anachoretism]

L'air s'est empli du parfum des tubéreuses Comme si une musique allait s'élever

Mahmoud Darwich, Le Lanceur de dés, et autres poèmes. (trad. Elias Sanbar, 2010)

[josysadventures]

A quick update in the middle of my disappearing act

As I announced in late April, I’ve been devoting myself to academic work, and have thus been virtually absent from Tumblr. So here is a little summary of what I’ve been up to:

I handed in my 2nd year Master’s thesis ten days ago and I will be defending it next Monday (I have a pit in my stomach just typing out those words).

Thankfully, I’ve been busy enough that I haven’t had time to dwell too much on this stressful thought. This week I was at a seminar in Germany about utopia and dystopia and had the pleasure to attend a fascination lecture/workshop on feminist dystopia.

In other exciting/anxiety-inducing news: next Thursday I’ll be attending another seminar --this time organized by my university-- at which I will be giving a presentation on the use of language in animal rights activism).

After that the academic year is at last over and I will get a couple weeks of vacation before I have to start the mandatory reading for the competitive exam (’agrégation’) I’ll be taking next year.

So I guess the take-home message is: I’m tremendously busy but alive and quite nervous but happy

[josy57]

Hiatus (+some news)

It’s Easter and my birthday week end but alas what I have for you is neither chocolate nor a present. As some may have noticed, I haven’t posted in the past few days and probably won’t for a while as I am extremely busy. 

I have only two months before I need to hand in my second year’s Master thesis, then prepare to defend it before a jury on July 1st and three days later, I have to present a different paper at a research conference. And finally afterwards, I’m done with the school year (and my Master’s degree) and I’m off to go enjoy my holiday on a hiking trip with my parents (though it will still be a busy summer as I am preparing the English “agrégation” (a notoriously difficult competitive exam to become a teacher/be able to do a thesis) and need to read the seven books for the literature program (and God knows how many more for the other subjects).

So anyway, I’m not saying I won’t post anything in th meantime, but I’m probably not going to be around here much until late July/August.

Have a lovely couple months and wish me luck !

[english-ness]

Je n’attends qu’une chose, c’est de finir ce que j’ai à faire pour valider mon année et puis passer l’été à lire des bouquins pour mon mémoire et pour le programme de l’agreg.

Henry Vth et Henry James, here I come

[glittering-coffeebean]

Les machines.

[ittimepass]

Write a program in java to demonstrate aggregation?

Write a program in java to demonstrate aggregation?

class All {       int a;       public All(int x)       {             a=x;             System.out.println("In All");       }       public void display()       {             System.out.println(a);       } } class Ball {       All on;       int b;       public Ball(int y)       {             b=10;             on=new All(y);       }       public void display()       {             on.display();…

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