Tedious university update!
March 30th, 2007 at 01:14
Today I had an enormous weight lifted off of my shoulders. The bastard who put it there ran off, and I couldn’t chase after him to enact revenge because I was weighed down by the weight on my shoulders.
I also had another figurative weight lifted off of my shoulders. I handed in my last essay of the year. In the past nine days, I’ve had four essays due in, totally ten thousand words in total, meaning that I’ve spent the last month essentially in a blind panic. It probably would have been more productive to have spent the time researching and writing the essays rather than blindly panicking, but it’s amazing what your mind goes through in a crisis.
All of the questions I have been posed in the essays have been academic-sounding and have required equally academic answers. I’ve been asked for example “Who are the winners and losers in the globalisation process?” and “How has the recent revolution in information technology made the media a powerful influence on US foreign policy?”. I was even asked “European Monetary Union was both an economically and politically driven process. Discuss”, and that isn’t even a question.
(The fourth question, for those keeping track, was about if the end of the Cold War has increased in the influence of liberal theories in the international relations academy. The short answer is “yeah, a bit”, the long answer is “Read my essay, I’m not writing it again”).
I’m actually experiencing a sense of loss, now that I’ve no more essays to write. I think this weekend I’ll be at a loss for things to do. I might try and apply the liberal/realist paradigm to things that don’t necessarily fall under the remit of the school of International Relations. Or, y’know, shout abuse at some foreigners or something.
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