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Two good full days of work. It has been arduous, since I am really not so accustomed to working like this. Hopefully it will stick all week and I will be SO PRODUCTIVE!
I have taken on St. John Chrysostom as my academic patron. This has kind of been informal since the beginning of my collegiate career, though I just recently purchased an icon of him and hung it with my others. So now it's more official I guess.
There was an internship that I applied for (paid!) that I didn't get, which means I have to look for a real job now. I'm also considering taking on some sort of editorial position for the English Department creative journal, and I am going to be a part of the planning for the spring semester's Zeitgeist student paper conference. This is good. I don't want to be just a name on a roster--English Majors--I want to get involved, I want to find my niche here in at Biola in that way. So I am looking forward to those things.
Our class session on Edwards was hard, and so was my class session on Plotinus and Longinus. Ugh...so tedious, and incomprensible. I had gotten to the point of saturation for Edwards last night. Tomorrow I will pick it up again and get through it. Maybe Thursday.
I have also been throwing around term paper topic ideas for Torrey. I really want to do something theological, since it is really my only outlet for theological thought. Maximos the Confessor is always a favorite, although I am very interested in the idea of light, transfiguration, and spiritual illumination. I need a thesis and outline (!!!) by October 8. I also have other projects that are due soon, which I haven't even looked at, that I really ought to get started on. This semester is going to require me to keep multiple things in the air at once, something that I've not done yet in the way of academics. I'm still working on it, but this week is starting better than last week, so I think we are on to something here.
I have taken on St. John Chrysostom as my academic patron. This has kind of been informal since the beginning of my collegiate career, though I just recently purchased an icon of him and hung it with my others. So now it's more official I guess.
There was an internship that I applied for (paid!) that I didn't get, which means I have to look for a real job now. I'm also considering taking on some sort of editorial position for the English Department creative journal, and I am going to be a part of the planning for the spring semester's Zeitgeist student paper conference. This is good. I don't want to be just a name on a roster--English Majors--I want to get involved, I want to find my niche here in at Biola in that way. So I am looking forward to those things.
Our class session on Edwards was hard, and so was my class session on Plotinus and Longinus. Ugh...so tedious, and incomprensible. I had gotten to the point of saturation for Edwards last night. Tomorrow I will pick it up again and get through it. Maybe Thursday.
I have also been throwing around term paper topic ideas for Torrey. I really want to do something theological, since it is really my only outlet for theological thought. Maximos the Confessor is always a favorite, although I am very interested in the idea of light, transfiguration, and spiritual illumination. I need a thesis and outline (!!!) by October 8. I also have other projects that are due soon, which I haven't even looked at, that I really ought to get started on. This semester is going to require me to keep multiple things in the air at once, something that I've not done yet in the way of academics. I'm still working on it, but this week is starting better than last week, so I think we are on to something here.