posted 2006/10/21 at 17:44
NEVER AGAIN.
If I don't pass, then I'll just have to see what kind of job a BA in Creative Writing can get me, even if it involves heavy use of the phrase, "Would you like fries with that?" I am not taking that test again, even if someone points a gun to my head.
Goddess, that was fuckawful. I'm not sure what to think. On the one hand, I lucked out in getting essay questions which enabled me to focus on the texts I knew best, as well as having a William Carlos Williams poem to explicate (I've studied WCW* a lot both in undergrad and grad) and all in all I think I wrote fairly lucidly and did what I felt was a passable job. On the other hand, one of the two professors grading the exam has a well-earned reputation as the hardest grader in all of the English Department, and I have no idea who the second professor is.
If the graders were any of the English professors I've done extensive studying under, I would be fairly certain of a passing grade right now. As it is, I just don't know what to think.
I'm taking the rest of the evening off from my studies here -- I can only hope to have enough energy to get through the Tigers game, let alone the late Red Wings game -- but then I get to turn right around tomorrow and bury myself deep in study for the Japanese exam I have next week. Then after that I have my BFP (BIG FUCKING PAPER) to take care of. Assuming there's even a point in doing any of them after I get the results of the exam back.
(* Anyone who makes the obvious joke here will receive a swift kick in the naughty bits.)
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