VIVA!!!
Probably nobody other then me care abut this news... but, since this is MY journal (eh eh eh...) I'll put it here all the same!
Well...I was accepted for the International PhD in Criminology! Really, I made it!
It was quite difficult, I had to pass both a written and an oral examination and to challenge a lot of very well prepared people... only a few weeks after my graduation (and all the weariness that followed that event...) and directly after another trip to Brescia (quite a distant town from mine) to give my moral support to Alessandro that was doing HIS exam as well...
It was devastating, both physically and mentally!
I arrived on Sunday evening to Milan without any hopes... I mean, I had no time nor energies to read all the books indicated by the doctoral syllabus, and I had had no time even to concentrate on the fact I was going to try and enter the program... I simply thought: "Oh, well... casually I had my graduation before the selection date... let's simply try... At least I'll see what it feels like!"
And then the written exam was quite good (probably because of a completely me-unlike good luck... I was given a title to develop that was very near to my specialization... but, hey! Sometimes good luck will smile at me too, don't you think?)... And then the oral discussion was brilliant (now I'm being VERY MODEST!) I mean, I don't think I was ever so fluent in English... I guess I have to thank all you fellows for that... I had got better and better (at least my vocabulary...) during this year of reading and commenting in communities and journals!
So... from January I'll be officially a researcher and a PhD student... I feel already tired! (But happy!)
Cheers!
Ester
P.S. So many thanks to Alessandro (aka anotherday7) for having shared with me those anxious moments... I love you, dear!
P.P.S. A million, billion...*ç*é§illion thanks to rong for having read and corrected my presentation paper... it was really of help for me!
And thanks to white_death too for having given me her availability as well. Kiss!
Well...I was accepted for the International PhD in Criminology! Really, I made it!
It was quite difficult, I had to pass both a written and an oral examination and to challenge a lot of very well prepared people... only a few weeks after my graduation (and all the weariness that followed that event...) and directly after another trip to Brescia (quite a distant town from mine) to give my moral support to Alessandro that was doing HIS exam as well...
It was devastating, both physically and mentally!
I arrived on Sunday evening to Milan without any hopes... I mean, I had no time nor energies to read all the books indicated by the doctoral syllabus, and I had had no time even to concentrate on the fact I was going to try and enter the program... I simply thought: "Oh, well... casually I had my graduation before the selection date... let's simply try... At least I'll see what it feels like!"
And then the written exam was quite good (probably because of a completely me-unlike good luck... I was given a title to develop that was very near to my specialization... but, hey! Sometimes good luck will smile at me too, don't you think?)... And then the oral discussion was brilliant (now I'm being VERY MODEST!) I mean, I don't think I was ever so fluent in English... I guess I have to thank all you fellows for that... I had got better and better (at least my vocabulary...) during this year of reading and commenting in communities and journals!
So... from January I'll be officially a researcher and a PhD student... I feel already tired! (But happy!)
Cheers!
Ester
P.S. So many thanks to Alessandro (aka anotherday7) for having shared with me those anxious moments... I love you, dear!
P.P.S. A million, billion...*ç*é§illion thanks to rong for having read and corrected my presentation paper... it was really of help for me!
And thanks to white_death too for having given me her availability as well. Kiss!