Jan 26, 2008 17:17
Finished a full draft Thursday night, met with my advisor on Friday. Now editing said draft verrrrryyyy slowly...
My impression of this paper is that, even if the week we have left isn't quite enough to do all I want with it, I'll do all right. It hovers around 24 pages, and has been written on one of Shakespeare's most difficult plays. I put a lot of thought into it... but the topic is still too broad and diffuse, and the language I'm using doesn't have the lightness of when I'm really "into it". I've had my life after St. John's too much on my mind to make this paper where most of my real energy is going, and I didn't know/failed to plan what I wanted to write about early enough, so all the literary niceties that would make it a really good paper are being sacrificed to the time crunch. They'll definitely let me graduate with this paper and will say nice things about it to me, but I'm not seeing any chance at all of getting that essay prize. *sigh*
I'm on the sixth (hopefully the next to last) draft. Every so often I go and print out the latest copy and work with a pen for a while just so I have a break from staring at the computer screen, and it's adding up to quite a stack of pressed dead trees. I think the day after I finish I'll make a point of tossing them all into the recycle bin.
senior essay