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Tuesday, November 29, 2005

freaking

So, I'm freaking about my approaching oral exam. I should have read tonight but I didn't. I worked on the new proposal. I have to turn in chapters to my prof tomorrow and right now, they totally suck. My original opening was BORING. I think I fixed it while at son's soccer practice, so hopefully it's less boring than it was, but that's not saying much. Still, now that I know my heroine is 6 ft tall with short black hair, she came together much better on the pages. Repeat after me a bazillion times, Carolyn has to work hard at writing stronger heroines. OK, anyone reading that last sentence, you don't have to do that I do. But I'll be turning in a chapter 3 that right in the middle of it says "[some other stuff here]"

So, here I am, it's almost ten, I have to get up at five, I have to at minimum print out the chapters to get to school tomorrow and then I have to save my laundry and then, well, all this time I should have been reading for school. But I wasn't. Bad Carolyn. And that you can repeat out loud. Argh!

Sigh.

Comments:
It is ok and even reccomended to freak out over orals. Are yours comprehensive? when I got my masters mine were, in clinical psych. My first question was "please Miss Von HOllen, expain to the committee how the human brain works".and these were the guys I had picked!!!!!
But you get through it.Ithink everything you have ever written is great.............
Camilla
 
Thank you, Camilla, for validating my borderline panic attacks. It's not even comprehensive orals. This used to be a written only exam, but they changed it to add an oral option and NOBODY picked the written exam. It's demonstrating the breadth of reading part of the MA in English. They have a monster list of reading, you read it, and they question you about for an hour. Thanks for your kind words about my writing, that's really nice to hear.

So, um, how does the brain work? I'm curious to know.
 
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