#term projects

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Gradschool semester break-down

Weeks 1-5: Bit of writing each week. Manageable.

Weeks 6: Hey, you should think about that term paper. But not too much, it’s a long way off.

Weeks 7-9: Lots of department obligations. Social life is minimal.

Week 10: Psych! Time to freak out about your papers.

Week 11: What is sleep??? My blood is breakfast tea and soda.

Week 12-13: Presentations and deadlines leave you so stressed you have found zen.

Week 14: Promptly forget 50% of what was learned in seminar. Slightly worried about grades. No longer care though.

I am at week 11. Where are you, mates?

I have 2/3 syntheses done for Arts and Crafts Seminar but have to:

write 1 synthesis

Research 15 books for one term paper

Proceed to write that term paper

Write another term paper

by the end of next week. Plus:

Transcribe book notes for 11 books for my thesis

Figure out how the hell to build a Joomla! template

Taxes (Do I do US? Do I do Canadian? Both? IDK???)

Finalize SAA presentation

Proof a journal article

Proof a conference paper

By April 10th.

[art-thropologist]

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Five hours later and I have finally, finally, finally finished editing footnotes and bibliography for my two term papers.

Once again, my hatred for CMOS remains burning bright.

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Ten hours later and I am finally done with formatting/citation-ing my two term papers. It only took twice as long because RefWorks can’t even do its job right and I had to edit the bibliography entries myself.

And my burning hatred for Chicago Manual of Style remains well stoked.

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Being an academic means citing yourself as the source of information because I spent twO YEARS READING WHEN THE TLAMIMILOLPA PHASE WAS, PROFESSOR. IT HASN’T CHANGED. JUST TRUST ME ON THIS, DAMN IT.

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So a cohort came into the grad lounge to talk with me because our term paper topics were apparently very similar and the professor left us to decide what to do.

Cohort: I just want to make sure that we’re not overlapping too much.

Me: Is your paper about cannibals and monsters?

Cohort: ...No?

Me: Then we’re good.

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Linguistics: Transcribing conversations

Me after transcribing 10 seconds of audio:

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Me: I should pound out this paper that’s due this week and very important to my grade

Also Me: Oh Shit! I just realized that I have a plot hole in something inconsequential I wrote three years ago. I should fix that.

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How productive was I today? On a scale of 1 to 10: 

No