Some facts about my life.
In case you tuned in late, here's the recap:
1) Marshall Scholarship application submitted sans one letter of recommendation that apparently got eaten by the online system and does not display as having been submitted despite the insistence of recommender that it was. Said letter will be resubmitted by recommender in nine days once she returns from holiday in Australia. There is nothing more to be done on this front.
2) Official presentation of thesis research thus far occurs in one week. Mock presentation for practice purposes occurs in one hour. Let's just say I need more than one hour to finish condensing the research that took a whole summer into a fifteen-minute presentation to people who don't have any background in my field.
3) Fulbright Scholarship application is almost complete, and will likely be submitted (ahead of time!) sometime this week.
4) Training for my tutoring job runs all day tomorrow through Friday. I intend to use this as an opportunity not to think about Jane Austen at all.
5) Classes start in a week and two days, and that isn't soon enough. I need for there to be people in Berkeley again and I need to see my old professors again because seeing Professor Langan, even just for an hour and a half, completely rejuvenated my interest in my thesis topic, and having my thesis class with Professor Picciotto will be indescribably amazing.
6) I am beginning to amass a playlist called "Yelling at my thesis." As the title suggests, most of it is vaguely angry music, except for the few tracks that are mellow and fatalistic. Today I discovered that it's very useful for helping thesis-writers get out of bed and get to work at 7am (and is even more effective when paired with tea).
7) The other day, my father introduced me to a quote that I think will sum up my response to this upcoming year:
"If you're going through hell, keep going." --Sir Winston Churchill
1) Marshall Scholarship application submitted sans one letter of recommendation that apparently got eaten by the online system and does not display as having been submitted despite the insistence of recommender that it was. Said letter will be resubmitted by recommender in nine days once she returns from holiday in Australia. There is nothing more to be done on this front.
2) Official presentation of thesis research thus far occurs in one week. Mock presentation for practice purposes occurs in one hour. Let's just say I need more than one hour to finish condensing the research that took a whole summer into a fifteen-minute presentation to people who don't have any background in my field.
3) Fulbright Scholarship application is almost complete, and will likely be submitted (ahead of time!) sometime this week.
4) Training for my tutoring job runs all day tomorrow through Friday. I intend to use this as an opportunity not to think about Jane Austen at all.
5) Classes start in a week and two days, and that isn't soon enough. I need for there to be people in Berkeley again and I need to see my old professors again because seeing Professor Langan, even just for an hour and a half, completely rejuvenated my interest in my thesis topic, and having my thesis class with Professor Picciotto will be indescribably amazing.
6) I am beginning to amass a playlist called "Yelling at my thesis." As the title suggests, most of it is vaguely angry music, except for the few tracks that are mellow and fatalistic. Today I discovered that it's very useful for helping thesis-writers get out of bed and get to work at 7am (and is even more effective when paired with tea).
7) The other day, my father introduced me to a quote that I think will sum up my response to this upcoming year:
"If you're going through hell, keep going." --Sir Winston Churchill