Small moment of panic...!
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bebootsWinter 2011 Semester Checklist
MLCS 400: History of Translation (technically a language course and not a history course, though taught by a historian/classicist who also happens to be a translator)
Women’s Studies 201: needed for that “breadth and diversity” credit. :P
Hist 450: History of Slavery & Emancipation (seminar)
Hist 488: The Health Consequences of War (History of Medicine seminar)
Hist 502: Unscheduled Honour’s Thesis project (independent research)
Ongoing projects with uncertain due dates/due dates of my choice:
-Write honour’s thesis! (11/50 pages so far, but what there is still needs a crapload of editing)
-Write three short (3 page?) reading response papers to articles of my choice discussed in Hist 488
-Write one (4-5 page) reading response paper to article of my choice discussed in Hist 450
-Write blog entry (& a reply or two) at least once a week for Women’s Studies on e-class website.
Due dates/ stuff that needs to happen (so I can get it straight in my head):
Jan 19
-Filming for Northern Lights (10,000 years of Edmonton’s history in 10 minutes!) at Fort Edmonton. May have to skip classes for this, but it’s just Women’s Studies and MLCS 400, which are both only an hour long. I have friends in the latter who can lend me their notes and I can catch up easily in the former. If I don’t be an extra in this film, I will sulk forever. Also, I get paid like $11/hour, and need money. And it’s only one day!
Jan 25
Hist 450 response paper (arbitrarily chosen due date)
Jan 27
Hist 488: Presentation on Leslie Schwalm’s essay on African American health during the Civil War
Feb 8
Hist 450: Primary source presentation (short, 5 minutes, very informal)
Feb 11
MLCS 400: Portrait essay due (essentially a biography of a translator or a recounting of a(n anonymous) translation event)
Feb 15
Due date for applications for Odyssey (that teaching assistant job in Quebec)
Hist 450: Class Presentation (on Harriett Jacobs)
Feb 18
MLCS 400: Midterm exam
Feb 19 – 27: READING WEEK NO CLASSES JUST WORK LIKE A MOFO ON EVERYTHING
Feb 26
Abstracts for the History of Medicine Conference due in, if I want to present a paper there. Maybe or maybe not.
March 1
Hist 450: paper proposal and rough bibliography due
March 8
Hist 450: class presentation on female slaves & the law
March 15
Due date for applications for teaching assistant job in France
March 26 (Saturday)
Medical History Day conference! (I will attend even if I’m not presenting)
March 29
Hist 450: presentation of term paper research (10-15 min, very informal, just talk about the paper I’m writing)
April 4
Women’s Studies: final discussion paper due(?) – dependent on which topic I choose and when I choose to have my presentation: in February (1st half of the topic list) or late March (2nd half of the topic list). I think I choose late March.
April 7
Hist 488 final paper due (research paper or 4-way book review)
April 12
Hist 450 research paper (12-15 pages) due
April 13
MLCS 400 term paper due
And you know what’s piss? I only have one actual scheduled final exam. The rest are take-home exams or final essays in lieu of exams. The last day of classes is late this year (April 13th), but my one and only exam? APRIL 28th. Like, the last possible day of exams. Which means that I have plenty of time to study, but DAMN I could have been done like two or three weeks before that. D: So here, my last duty as a undergraduate history student:
April 28th: MLCS 400 final exam
Cons: HOLY CRAP I HAVE SO MUCH WORK TO DO PANIC PANIC PANIC AAAAAARRRRRGGGGGH… *faints*
-WHEN EXACTLY IS MY 50 PAGE THESIS DUE? I NEED TO KNOW THIS HOLY CRAP
Pros:
-If I keep up with my readings (hundreds of pages each week) and, well, WORK LIKE A MOFO, I’ll be okay. I’ll have little free time (WHERE IS A TIMETURNER WHEN YOU REALLY, REALLY NEED IT?), I can manage.
-Note: nothing is due in the next two weeks. I can get a head start on the early stuff, which means that I have a bit of breathing room for the rest of it, especially the stuff that requires a lot of reading. So I’ve got to stop typing this document and get started on other things NOW
-Despite all odds, nothing actually happens on the exact same day. Papers aren’t due on midterm days, or presentation days, etc. I’ve actually managed to scatter the due dates quite nicely. Now I just have to keep up with everything.
-For the actual research paper topics, I’m going to double up my readings. Four way book review for the History of the Health Consequences of War? Why not make it on Civil War medicine, at least one of which I’ve already read or skimmed for my thesis? Need to write a paper on slavery? Why not write it on Harriett Jacobs, whose written account I’ve already read cover-to-cover? I know the titles and authors of some historians who wrote about her, too, so I can make use of stuff I already know so I’m not crazily looking for dozens of books I’ve never heard of to write on a topic that I know little about. I’ll stick to what I know
-Women’s studies will be a bit more of a relaxing class. 200 levels (second year courses) are nothing to 400-level seminars. Besides, I took two history of American women’s courses last semester: I, unlike a significant chunk of the class (many of whom are first and second years) actually have studied Betty Friedan, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Margaret Sanger, and others before.
-On a related note, the history of slavery class and the Women’s Studies class both have books and articles on their reading lists that I am already familiar with or have already read. Plus, many of the articles and books look really, really interesting! (So it’s not like I’m only going to be reading boring stuff.) Included on this semester’s (extensive) reading list are titles such as:
-“Barbie girls vs sea monsters”
-“’We should grow too fond of it’: Why We Love the Civil War”
-“Watching the Bombs go off: Photography, Nuclear Landscapes, and Spectator Democracy”
-“Project Chariot: How Alaska Escaped Nuclear Excavation” (AKA after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, an idea was bandied about that nuclear weapons could be used to do things like create manmade harbors in areas like Alaska. BAD IDEA.)
-“Celia, a slave” – an account of a slave woman who fought back against her abusive master
-“Soul by soul: life inside the antebellum slave market”
-Super interesting history of translation stuff (the invention of Cree syllabic alphabets! Cuneiform in ancient Sumer! Awesome mistranslation stories!)
-“Why I want a wife”
-and my favourite title: “Fuck you and your untouchable face” (for, again, Women’s Studies)
So it’s not all bad. The problem is just that there’s a LOT of it. Plus my thesis.
MLCS 400: History of Translation (technically a language course and not a history course, though taught by a historian/classicist who also happens to be a translator)
Women’s Studies 201: needed for that “breadth and diversity” credit. :P
Hist 450: History of Slavery & Emancipation (seminar)
Hist 488: The Health Consequences of War (History of Medicine seminar)
Hist 502: Unscheduled Honour’s Thesis project (independent research)
Ongoing projects with uncertain due dates/due dates of my choice:
-Write honour’s thesis! (11/50 pages so far, but what there is still needs a crapload of editing)
-Write three short (3 page?) reading response papers to articles of my choice discussed in Hist 488
-Write one (4-5 page) reading response paper to article of my choice discussed in Hist 450
-Write blog entry (& a reply or two) at least once a week for Women’s Studies on e-class website.
Due dates/ stuff that needs to happen (so I can get it straight in my head):
Jan 19
-Filming for Northern Lights (10,000 years of Edmonton’s history in 10 minutes!) at Fort Edmonton. May have to skip classes for this, but it’s just Women’s Studies and MLCS 400, which are both only an hour long. I have friends in the latter who can lend me their notes and I can catch up easily in the former. If I don’t be an extra in this film, I will sulk forever. Also, I get paid like $11/hour, and need money. And it’s only one day!
Jan 25
Hist 450 response paper (arbitrarily chosen due date)
Jan 27
Hist 488: Presentation on Leslie Schwalm’s essay on African American health during the Civil War
Feb 8
Hist 450: Primary source presentation (short, 5 minutes, very informal)
Feb 11
MLCS 400: Portrait essay due (essentially a biography of a translator or a recounting of a(n anonymous) translation event)
Feb 15
Due date for applications for Odyssey (that teaching assistant job in Quebec)
Hist 450: Class Presentation (on Harriett Jacobs)
Feb 18
MLCS 400: Midterm exam
Feb 19 – 27: READING WEEK NO CLASSES JUST WORK LIKE A MOFO ON EVERYTHING
Feb 26
Abstracts for the History of Medicine Conference due in, if I want to present a paper there. Maybe or maybe not.
March 1
Hist 450: paper proposal and rough bibliography due
March 8
Hist 450: class presentation on female slaves & the law
March 15
Due date for applications for teaching assistant job in France
March 26 (Saturday)
Medical History Day conference! (I will attend even if I’m not presenting)
March 29
Hist 450: presentation of term paper research (10-15 min, very informal, just talk about the paper I’m writing)
April 4
Women’s Studies: final discussion paper due(?) – dependent on which topic I choose and when I choose to have my presentation: in February (1st half of the topic list) or late March (2nd half of the topic list). I think I choose late March.
April 7
Hist 488 final paper due (research paper or 4-way book review)
April 12
Hist 450 research paper (12-15 pages) due
April 13
MLCS 400 term paper due
And you know what’s piss? I only have one actual scheduled final exam. The rest are take-home exams or final essays in lieu of exams. The last day of classes is late this year (April 13th), but my one and only exam? APRIL 28th. Like, the last possible day of exams. Which means that I have plenty of time to study, but DAMN I could have been done like two or three weeks before that. D: So here, my last duty as a undergraduate history student:
April 28th: MLCS 400 final exam
Cons: HOLY CRAP I HAVE SO MUCH WORK TO DO PANIC PANIC PANIC AAAAAARRRRRGGGGGH… *faints*
-WHEN EXACTLY IS MY 50 PAGE THESIS DUE? I NEED TO KNOW THIS HOLY CRAP
Pros:
-If I keep up with my readings (hundreds of pages each week) and, well, WORK LIKE A MOFO, I’ll be okay. I’ll have little free time (WHERE IS A TIMETURNER WHEN YOU REALLY, REALLY NEED IT?), I can manage.
-Note: nothing is due in the next two weeks. I can get a head start on the early stuff, which means that I have a bit of breathing room for the rest of it, especially the stuff that requires a lot of reading. So I’ve got to stop typing this document and get started on other things NOW
-Despite all odds, nothing actually happens on the exact same day. Papers aren’t due on midterm days, or presentation days, etc. I’ve actually managed to scatter the due dates quite nicely. Now I just have to keep up with everything.
-For the actual research paper topics, I’m going to double up my readings. Four way book review for the History of the Health Consequences of War? Why not make it on Civil War medicine, at least one of which I’ve already read or skimmed for my thesis? Need to write a paper on slavery? Why not write it on Harriett Jacobs, whose written account I’ve already read cover-to-cover? I know the titles and authors of some historians who wrote about her, too, so I can make use of stuff I already know so I’m not crazily looking for dozens of books I’ve never heard of to write on a topic that I know little about. I’ll stick to what I know
-Women’s studies will be a bit more of a relaxing class. 200 levels (second year courses) are nothing to 400-level seminars. Besides, I took two history of American women’s courses last semester: I, unlike a significant chunk of the class (many of whom are first and second years) actually have studied Betty Friedan, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Margaret Sanger, and others before.
-On a related note, the history of slavery class and the Women’s Studies class both have books and articles on their reading lists that I am already familiar with or have already read. Plus, many of the articles and books look really, really interesting! (So it’s not like I’m only going to be reading boring stuff.) Included on this semester’s (extensive) reading list are titles such as:
-“Barbie girls vs sea monsters”
-“’We should grow too fond of it’: Why We Love the Civil War”
-“Watching the Bombs go off: Photography, Nuclear Landscapes, and Spectator Democracy”
-“Project Chariot: How Alaska Escaped Nuclear Excavation” (AKA after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, an idea was bandied about that nuclear weapons could be used to do things like create manmade harbors in areas like Alaska. BAD IDEA.)
-“Celia, a slave” – an account of a slave woman who fought back against her abusive master
-“Soul by soul: life inside the antebellum slave market”
-Super interesting history of translation stuff (the invention of Cree syllabic alphabets! Cuneiform in ancient Sumer! Awesome mistranslation stories!)
-“Why I want a wife”
-and my favourite title: “Fuck you and your untouchable face” (for, again, Women’s Studies)
So it’s not all bad. The problem is just that there’s a LOT of it. Plus my thesis.
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Date: 2011-01-14 05:17 am (UTC)*This will most likely never actually happen. But it is still a good idea.
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Date: 2011-01-14 03:25 pm (UTC)