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This school has really burned my ass in the last couple weeks.
A week and a half ago, I got an e-mail from a fellowship I applied to saying that two professors had never sent in recommendations. It had been due two weeks before and I'd cleared it with them long before it was sent in. I checked with both of them and they'd both simply forgotten to do it. Both of them were history professors.
Now, I've gotten word from the department of problems with my honors thesis prospectus. It lacks sufficient secondary source research, which is a perfectly legitimate criticism, but my advisor, who I've met with extensively, never brought this up. Nor did he address with me the shortness of my prospectus; mine is apparently much shorter than everybody else's, and he never mentioned this. Ever. They want more research from me at a time in the semester when I really don't have spare time to read four or five more books, given that final essays are due in three and a half weeks along with my grad school applications.
The History Department kinda threw me under a bus here. And I'm not very happy. Odds are, I'll step down from Honors Thesis, because the prospect of all of this additional research leaves me to question what else I can cut to make room for it. I won't risk my grades for an honors thesis that won't help my grad school apps, and I won't risk my grad school apps at all.
I've already got enough reasons to be angry at this school. Burning myself out on writing this thesis and destroying my senior year is not a reason I'd like to add to the list.
A week and a half ago, I got an e-mail from a fellowship I applied to saying that two professors had never sent in recommendations. It had been due two weeks before and I'd cleared it with them long before it was sent in. I checked with both of them and they'd both simply forgotten to do it. Both of them were history professors.
Now, I've gotten word from the department of problems with my honors thesis prospectus. It lacks sufficient secondary source research, which is a perfectly legitimate criticism, but my advisor, who I've met with extensively, never brought this up. Nor did he address with me the shortness of my prospectus; mine is apparently much shorter than everybody else's, and he never mentioned this. Ever. They want more research from me at a time in the semester when I really don't have spare time to read four or five more books, given that final essays are due in three and a half weeks along with my grad school applications.
The History Department kinda threw me under a bus here. And I'm not very happy. Odds are, I'll step down from Honors Thesis, because the prospect of all of this additional research leaves me to question what else I can cut to make room for it. I won't risk my grades for an honors thesis that won't help my grad school apps, and I won't risk my grad school apps at all.
I've already got enough reasons to be angry at this school. Burning myself out on writing this thesis and destroying my senior year is not a reason I'd like to add to the list.