impending doom

[poetrywriter]

Hello. Check out this e-mail I received today from my professor for senior seminar. Its almost humerous in a morbid way.



Greetings ENG 4800 students,

I hope this e-mail finds all of you well and enjoying the summer months. I have been receiving a few e-mails from your fellow students regarding the upcoming seminar. Most are questions regarding prepatory reading and expressions of anxiety about the course load for senior seminar. Let me comment on the latter - yes, senior seminar is very demanding in regards to what will be expected of each of you. To summerize, you will be required to fulfill the following obligations :

- 5 papers, each 5 -7 pages in length based on readings througout the semester.

- 2 oral presentations on current issues in literature.

- Two major exams (mid-term, final) as well as periodic quizzes on literary theory and its adherents.

- Your senior thesis, which must be a minimum of 30 pages in length.

Your senior thesis can be on any topic in the literary world. One of your classmates asked what this includes as far as what is defined as literature. If you are unaware what literature is, then you don't belong in this seminar. You MUST state your intended thesis on the FIRST NIGHT. This brings us to prepatory reading. You would be wise to choose a topic and read as much as you can during the time we have left before classes begin. Trust me when I say you WON'T have time for much once the semester starts. This seminar is the culmination of what you have learned in all your other English class.

If you have any further questions, please send them via e-mail. See you in September, and enjoy the rest of your summer!




Ah, I love the last line. Yikes.

[_om_]

my senior seminar revolved around blues literature so it narrowed my thesis a lot. you can just pick a topic out of the air for your class? that's pretty scary but cool at the same time. I hate writing papers.. but once they are done it's kind of rewarding I guess, isn't it.


Om1

[futuregirl]

Good lord! Your prof is the antichrist! /images/smile.gif

Nice threatening heads up he sent you guys. ha, daaaaamn. I dunno if they should even be allowed to badger students before the class has officially started....He's really crackin the whip there & yeah, ya gotta love the little phrase "enjoy the rest of your summer" he tossed out there. You can just hear his evil laughter after that as he thinks to himself in regards to your summer ("...what's left of it...") & then....mwuaha...MWUAHAHA....MWUUUUUUAHAHAHAHA

I'd probably be looking to drop/add or for a new prof. /images/wink.gif

I don't remember being required to do a senior thesis. Then again, I was a business major. /images/crazy.gif Lots of "group" projects that year in all the classes though--which always sucked, those damn group things. /images/tongue.gif

[thelateman80]

Well...it's not all bad...oh, wait it is. Good Luck!


"Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got till it's gone" - Joni Mitchell

[_om_]

I don't think that courseload is that bad, unless you are taking like 20 other higher level credits with it???
Plus I'm presuming your writing of papers is on par with your poetry, in which case.. I think I'd wanna read your senior thesis, if you don't mind.


om1