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Nov. 11th, 2004 08:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jianantonicWell, I'm done with my presentation notes with two hours to spare. It was easy putting it all together, and I'm sure the presentation will go just fine, but here's the thing. I have to write a paper on the same topic, and I'm not ready to do that. I mean, I could write a great paper on it, because I have a lot to say, but it wouldn't be a research paper which is the requirement. Here's something I've never been good at in four years of college. If I'm supposed to make a claim of my own, I can do that, and write a very good criticism of the primary source just drawing out of my own brain. But we're supposed to have sources. Quote secondary texts. Quote other criticisms. Okay, I can do that, but that takes away from the fact that I'm writing my own ideas. The line between plaigarism and referencing experts is very thin in my book. If you want a report, don't ask for a thesis. If you want a thesis, don't ask for ten sources. Grr, I know it can be done and the ideal way is to use the other sources to support your own ideas...but I'd rather just not. It's like when I write in LJ. I can write ten pages in a matter of minutes on things I am very passionate about...but ask me to do research about it and I just don't wanna!
Anyway I'm going to get straight A's this semester, which pleases me. Out like a lion. I just have one more course to take in January, then I'll be a legitimate philosophress, and I can go get a real job:) Unlike most people, I'm very excited about the job hunt. I didn't think I'd be in it, for one thing, but I'm glad I am, because another year at ADF would just be too much. It sucks being poor and fighting about money, but I know whatever job I find will pay at least $20,000 a year, which is more than Jer and I are living on right now, and on top of that, he'll have a job, too, so yay for extra money. It's good to be forced to live on very little, because then you learn how, and when you make more, you can live much more richly without being stretched thin like so many people are. :)
Shelly, welcome back! We MUST talk soon. You know that letter I wrote you? I still have it. I actually wrote another one, but I don't have your address because *someone* threw away the envelope from your letter while cleaning house. Le sigh.
Anyhoo, I'm off to find Steve so he can make copies of my presentation outline. Wish me luck on this paper thing - I'm not looking forward to it:-/
Anyway I'm going to get straight A's this semester, which pleases me. Out like a lion. I just have one more course to take in January, then I'll be a legitimate philosophress, and I can go get a real job:) Unlike most people, I'm very excited about the job hunt. I didn't think I'd be in it, for one thing, but I'm glad I am, because another year at ADF would just be too much. It sucks being poor and fighting about money, but I know whatever job I find will pay at least $20,000 a year, which is more than Jer and I are living on right now, and on top of that, he'll have a job, too, so yay for extra money. It's good to be forced to live on very little, because then you learn how, and when you make more, you can live much more richly without being stretched thin like so many people are. :)
Shelly, welcome back! We MUST talk soon. You know that letter I wrote you? I still have it. I actually wrote another one, but I don't have your address because *someone* threw away the envelope from your letter while cleaning house. Le sigh.
Anyhoo, I'm off to find Steve so he can make copies of my presentation outline. Wish me luck on this paper thing - I'm not looking forward to it:-/
