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Oct. 7th, 2010 07:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tree_and_leafGot my first essay title (on Augustine, ‘I had become to myself a vast problem...’ (Augustine, Confessions). Is thinking about oneself a good way to begin thinking about God?), due Monday at four, and promptly freaked out, to the bemusement of Lawyer, who has been an Oxbridge undergraduate before.
Though on reflection, I think the freaking out was not so much an Oxbridge/ non-Oxbridge thing, but partly down to (a) the fact that my order, including the set text, is stil not here (b) I do have two of the books on the set text, but they're still in bloody storage and I can't go and get them till tomorrow (which means that between two hours of Life and Service class at Westcott, an hour of Greek class, and two meetings with supervisors, as well as moving the boxes, reading just isn't going to happen on Friday - but it has to, because the storage contract runs out then, and anyway I need my stuff).
Fundamentally, though, it's (c) - I'm still in grad student mode, and my brain turned it into "I have to produce a chapter/ conference paper on something I know virtually nothing about in four days!"
A second year undergrad essay probably isn't required to be quite the same standard, is it?
Signed up for the Navy placement, in the end. Feel vaguely guilty about taking a soft option, but conclude this is irrational.
Aaargh! Chapel bell!
Though on reflection, I think the freaking out was not so much an Oxbridge/ non-Oxbridge thing, but partly down to (a) the fact that my order, including the set text, is stil not here (b) I do have two of the books on the set text, but they're still in bloody storage and I can't go and get them till tomorrow (which means that between two hours of Life and Service class at Westcott, an hour of Greek class, and two meetings with supervisors, as well as moving the boxes, reading just isn't going to happen on Friday - but it has to, because the storage contract runs out then, and anyway I need my stuff).
Fundamentally, though, it's (c) - I'm still in grad student mode, and my brain turned it into "I have to produce a chapter/ conference paper on something I know virtually nothing about in four days!"
A second year undergrad essay probably isn't required to be quite the same standard, is it?
Signed up for the Navy placement, in the end. Feel vaguely guilty about taking a soft option, but conclude this is irrational.
Aaargh! Chapel bell!