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[lovelies]

˙ǝɹǝɥ oƃ 'ǝɯǝɯ ǝɥʇ ǝʇɐnʇǝdɹǝd oʇ

˙ɹǝɯɯnq ˙ǝlnpǝɥɔs lǝʌɐɹʇ ǝɥʇ uı ǝɹɐ sǝʇıs ǝƃɐ ǝzuoɹq ʎuɐɯ ɥƃnoɥʇ uǝʌǝ 'sǝıpnʇs ɹno ɟo ǝdoɔs ǝɥʇ ɟo ʇno ʇıq ɐ sı ɐɹǝ ɔıʇsıuǝllǝɥ ǝɥʇ ˙ɹǝɥʇıǝ 'uı ʇoƃ sǝnƃɐǝlloɔ ʎɯ ɟo ǝuou 'puɐɥ ɹǝɥʇo ǝɥʇ uo ʇnq ˙ɐıɹʎs oʇ ƃuıoƃ ǝq ʇ,uoʍ ı ʎlʇuǝɹɐddɐ 'os

I've had kind of a rotten week.

Comments

[elowena]

I'm sorry to hear that. Competition for places on uni trips sucks ass. If it's any consolation, getting on trips as a Classics major is a hassle as well. (I could insert a whole rant on the department lagging behind and not realizing that only admitting 7th-year students on study trips sucks considering we're supposed to graduate in less than that but - well, there you have it.)

Hope you'll have better luck with upcoming trips - based on the little I know you seem pretty brilliant and deserve to get on one. (Also, if you're bent on field experience, there are loads of programs outside the uni. I know the Turkish government [or a similar body, I'm a bit hazy on the details] gives out scholarships for independent research trips, I'd imagine other countries do the same. I'm presuming the competition isn't terribly fierce since a unimate of mine who couldn't care less about Turkey got one. [Yes, I hate him, too.] You can also apply for foreign universities' programs - depending on the project, some are actually quite desperate for participants. You might have to pay for your flights, but it's still less than you'd pay as a tourist.)

And I know nothing is more irritating than having ruin a bad mood by being chipper and pep-talky, so apologies. I do hope, however, that the upcoming week will be better for you.

[lovelies]

Oh, I wasn't really upset about the trip. It's more interpersonal relationships that have been going sour lately.

There was a trip last fall for the Ancient Near East people, where many of my friends went, and I probably would have gotten in. But they visited Hellenistic sites on that trip, and it wouldn't have been that useful for me, so I never applied. On this Hellenistic Near East trip they are scheduled to visit bronze age sites (do not ask me why, it makes no sense), and those would have been of interest to me. But Hellenistic studies as such have no impact on my degree.

The people were chosen for the trip on the basis of how well they could argue for it being useful for their studies. My entire case was that I have in the past studied Near Eastern archaeology, Ugaritic, Armaic, Greek and Latin, and I really really really really really want to see Ugarit (even though I do textual studies and seeing the place has no bearing on poetic parallelism, which I left out of the application).

Our faculty's actually got two digs in Israel that I've been told I have a standing order to get to. But like I said, it's Ugarit I'm jonesing for.