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Post by French Pony on Dec 21, 2004 19:31:40 GMT -5
Stick a fork in me, I'm done!
I have finished all my classes, done all my final presentations, and handed in all my final papers. Twelve-page feminist analysis of "Barbara Allen?" Pow! Fifteen page ethnography and postmodern critical analysis of anime music videos? Pow! Twenty-minute oral presentation thereof, with questions and visual aids? Pow! Final gamelan jam session? Pow! Thirteen page mock dissertation proposal (which may end up being my real dissertation)? Pow! Extra-credit revision of a review of a journal article? Pow!
I have killed my first semester of grad school dead dead dead, and I don't have to do a bleeding academic thing until the 18th of January next year!
Wheeeeee!
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Post by Karri on Dec 21, 2004 20:10:20 GMT -5
Congratulations, FP!  *whips up another batch of hot cocoa with marshmallows and toasts to a semester well done and over* I hope you have a pleasant and relaxing break.
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Post by Gwenneth on Dec 21, 2004 21:08:00 GMT -5
Congratulations French Pony!  That's AWESOME. Those topics sure sounded...ehm...grad schooly! Anyway, you are to be commended! Grad school isn't easy. Enjoy your vacation! What's your school of study might I ask? |
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Post by LKK on Dec 22, 2004 15:06:48 GMT -5
Congratulations, FP! Just reading that list of what you've accomplished made my head hurt. I can't imagine actually doing all of that! Well done!!  |
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Post by dawtheminstrel on Dec 22, 2004 16:57:17 GMT -5
Pow! Great stuff, FP. Congratulations! Enjoy your time off. Eat, drink, and be merry.
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Post by Neuriel on Dec 24, 2004 22:22:40 GMT -5
Congrats! I have a question for you. Does your brain hurt now? Because mine hurts just by thinking about doing all of that. And I thought performing Romeo and Juliet was hard.
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Post by French Pony on Dec 28, 2004 17:42:17 GMT -5
What's your school of study might I ask? I'm studying for an MA in Ethnomusicology. "Whuzzat?" I hear you cry. Short answer: Ethnomusicology is the study of folk music. Longer (but more accurate) answer: Ethnomusicology is the study of how people use music and the role that music plays in human culture. Before the discipline was formally "invented" in the late 1960s, it was known as "comparative musicology." The first ethnomusicologists (such as David McAllister) were trained anthropologists with a specialty in music. They then trained people like Philip Bohlman and Kay Kaufman Shelemay in the new field of ethnomusicology. These people (not Bohlman and Shelemay specifically; they're at separate institutions, neither of which is mine) are training my generation of ethnomusicologists. Me and my cohorts are the first generation of ethnomusicologists to be trained by other ethnomusicologists. It's a very young field, so the standard theory is still gelling. It's modern and interdisciplinary, so people come into it from music, anthropology and Cultural Studies. When I emerge as Dr. Pony, fresh Ph.D in hand, there won't be thousands of other freshly minted doctors competing with me for jobs -- there'll be just a few hundred. It's a great field, and a great time to be getting into it. |
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Post by Gwenneth on Dec 28, 2004 19:27:24 GMT -5
WOW...that is an interesting field of study, FP! I have not heard of it, but as a music fan I must say it sounds fascinating! What do you plan to do with your Ph'D?
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Post by Mornflower on Dec 28, 2004 20:39:26 GMT -5
Wow...ethnomusicologist....how exactly do you even Pronounce that?  lol...sounds fun...and good for you on accomplishing that much! I have trouble just concentrating on doing my Math homework...I usually end up falling asleep and drooling all over the book...  |
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Post by French Pony on Jan 1, 2005 0:17:47 GMT -5
And the results are in! I passed all my classes, and passed them well. All that writing paid off in the end. I now have a 3.85 GPA. I can do grad work! Woo-hooo!
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Post by Karri on Jan 1, 2005 11:41:56 GMT -5
Excellent news, FP. Congratulations! |
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Post by LKK on Jan 2, 2005 11:17:47 GMT -5
Whoo-hoo, FP! Now that's what I call a great way to start the New Year! Do you have any thoughts as to where you would like to do grad work? |
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Post by Microsoft Office 2010 on Nov 19, 2010 1:04:02 GMT -5
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lol...sounds fun...and good for you on accomplishing that much! I have trouble just concentrating on doing my Math homework...I usually end up falling asleep and drooling all over the book... 