Three more weeks of classes, then finals, but, the only thing I have to do on finals week is turn in papers, and I am honestly hoping to be done with them by that point.
I now have a thesis and an adviser. I am searching for one more person for my panel, and I have to fill out the paperwork, but those are minor things compared to the research I am going to have to start doing over the summer.
My thesis is going to be on Melville's critique of American Exceptionalism in his novella, Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile. I am going to have to do a lot of historical research, but it is a good jumping off point to studying satire. It is definitely Melville's most entertaining work, and it should be more widely read.
Except for class presentations on papers, I am through with my presentations for the semester. I have learned a lot, and I am definitely glad that I took the opportunity to give a presentation at the University of Akron Student Innovation Symposium (UASIS).
Hoping to find out whether I have gotten an assistantship or not. I am thinking it should be any time. People who are currently graduate assistants have told me -- from the phone call I received last week asking me whether I was still interested or not -- that I am under consideration. We'll see.
I need to find a job for the summer. It would be nice to do something tutoring related, but I am not above working waiting tables or something like that. Waiting tables might be my best bet, but that would ruin my nights and weekends, which I have grown pretty accustomed to. Still, as the phrase goes, "beggars can't be choosers" -- unless you're that guy who begs by the alley outside of my old apartment building in Chicago.
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