This is the article I wrote for next year's Student Body Handbook, on screwing up at Reed. It doesn't say everything I wanted to say, because that would probably take up about 70 billion pages, but hopefully a few people will get something out of it, at least.

( Screwing Up At Reed )

E-mailed my Greek paper to Wally. It's about half the length that it was supposed to be (ARGH). I wish my week hadn't been eaten by thesis. I'm particularly sad that this paper is the one that suffered, because I was actually really excited to write on my topic, especially once I started diving into researching it. I have lots of information ( Read more... )

GODDAMMIT I do NOT WANT to write my thesis but I have SO MUCH DAMN thesis to write and only 12 DAYS to write it because I am a DAMN TARD and did not work as hard as I should have over break and now I am SWAMPED WITH THESIS AND DO NOT KNOW WHAT TO DO and also in those 12 days I also have to NOT SCREW UP in my THREE OTHER EFFING CLASSES ( Read more... )

Most of the time I trudge on day to day at Reed trying not to fall hideously behind in my classes and being chafed under the weight of a long-time intellectual inferiority complex (HAHA ARISTOPHANES JOKE), and don't really consider the notion that I've learned a whole mess of crap in my time at Reed ( Read more... )

The crappy part of my week is over ( Read more... )

Got my thesis lottery word....

"lover".

LAAAAAAAAME. That word even appears in my thesis translationSomebody fails at creative ( Read more... )

E-mail exchange between me and Mike (my thesis adviser), in re. AN AMAZING VIDEO WHICH YOU MUST WATCH NOW:

Me:
My collection of bizarre Bible kitsch has become even more of a multimedia endeavor. This may terrify you, delight you, or some combination of the two. Either way, its rhymes are clever.

Click to view

MG

Mike:
John 11:35

( For those of you without a Bible handy, John 11:35 says... )

Feel a little better. Awake all night, very tired, want to do nothing more than say sod classes and climb into bed (no such luck), but I did at least get a little thesis done, and I finished the Greek translation for today so at least I'm not more behind there. Woo. I am tired.

I'm not exactly sure how I'm going to get through this semester ( Read more... )

Ugh ugh ugh Coptic Coptic Coptic. I can't wait to be done with this language. Only one more day. I wish I'd worked on it more over break, but oddly now that I've gotten into a groove I'm finding it easier to do it all in one massive pile than in increments (more time in between to forget EVERYTHING, y'know). Also, all the verb charts and crap ( Read more... )