Comments | wishfulaces: "Too much noise," he says.

wishfulaces

"Too much noise," he says.

Nov 13, 2003 23:29

I now have 40 pages of typed-up, transcribed letters saved to my hard drive (which is better than being saved to a disk, because obviously my backpack has a transdimensional hole in it that gobbles up only the disks I need but leaves behind the glob of disks containing family reunion pictures that I oh so obviously don't need). The files are ( Read more... )

dw, school, lj

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warinbabylon November 14 2003, 15:32:38 UTC

Good luck on the papers! Which professor is this for? And 40 pages? Yeeeouch.

wishfulaces November 14 2003, 16:19:32 UTC

It's for my independent study--and it's certainly been an independent study from both angles (I've technically had two supervisers, one in the library archives and a history professor, but the papers are being graded by the history professor while the archivist just wants to see the papers and see what I got out of the experience).

It's quite nice to have 40 pages of primary source, though. Lots to work on and get a (hopefully) good paper out of.

warinbabylon November 14 2003, 16:22:48 UTC

It will be. Now...this isn't associated with your work this summer, was it? Why two different papers?

(yes, I'm a geek, I like to hear about papers)

wishfulaces November 15 2003, 05:25:40 UTC

Only indirectly associated (for one thing, it's still Illinois history, just a different *part* of Illinois...)

The two papers are because I've got two tracks in this independent study--so I'm writing one evaluating and summarizing the experience I've had in the archives, and the other's actually a research paper dealing with the information I've gathered during the indepdent study.

And the fact that I have to pull something out of my arse in one week with this research is kinda scary.

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