Dear Dr. Connell (2)
I know how you like to stay on top of what's going on with your students, so after our revision lunch the other week (thanks for the sandwiches by the way) I thought I'd drop you a line to let you know how my exam preparation is going.
Right now I am sitting drinking Earl Grey tea, flicking through the next Jim Butcher novel (Fool Moon - trash to offset the weighty stuff I have to revise for my course), and wondering where the day went. Underneath that is a copy of The Green Man by Kingsley Amis, which I'm going to read next since it has something of a bearing on my next short story. I should probably do some revision this afternoon; I set today aside to revise Arthurian Settings for the first paper I have to sit (Medieval English), but I'm lagging behind a little because my parents popped down to Cambridge yesterday and I took them punting. They took me for lunch and a pint, so it was a fair deal. Anyway, I'll probably spend this afternoon and evening finishing revising Troilus & Criseyde, and devote some time to Mallory and La Morte D'Arthur.
There's about twenty one days left till my exams start. I'm a little anxious, obviously, but I've got my revision planned out and I'll be happy when they start; the sooner they do, the sooner they're over. As far as I'm aware the English students finish first at Selwyn, so I'm looking forward to spending the rest of the term lounging around in the gardens, propping up the bar, and just generally pissing everybody else off. I had my first revision supervision today for Paper 6 (Literary Criticism) and have a surer idea of what I want to tackle before the exams. Aside from that I bought some art materials today (finer brushes and a few canvases), painting being something I've taken up this term to chill me out a bit if exam stress (or pissing-about-all-day-and-then-worrying-that-I-haven't-revised-enough stress) gets too much. You're not my tutor though, you're my DoS, so you probably care little about my mental health and would be perfectly happy if I ended up in a straight jacket and a padded cell as long as I got a first. Plus if I did I wouldn't be able to go the Scholars' Dinner so that a saving for the college right there.
Yours
Jon Clewes
PS: Tune of the moment: The Lovecats - The Cure
PPS: Really though, taking the pre-packaged sandwiches from hall and cutting them into little triangles? What do they pay your entertainment budget in? Bottle tops?
Right now I am sitting drinking Earl Grey tea, flicking through the next Jim Butcher novel (Fool Moon - trash to offset the weighty stuff I have to revise for my course), and wondering where the day went. Underneath that is a copy of The Green Man by Kingsley Amis, which I'm going to read next since it has something of a bearing on my next short story. I should probably do some revision this afternoon; I set today aside to revise Arthurian Settings for the first paper I have to sit (Medieval English), but I'm lagging behind a little because my parents popped down to Cambridge yesterday and I took them punting. They took me for lunch and a pint, so it was a fair deal. Anyway, I'll probably spend this afternoon and evening finishing revising Troilus & Criseyde, and devote some time to Mallory and La Morte D'Arthur.
There's about twenty one days left till my exams start. I'm a little anxious, obviously, but I've got my revision planned out and I'll be happy when they start; the sooner they do, the sooner they're over. As far as I'm aware the English students finish first at Selwyn, so I'm looking forward to spending the rest of the term lounging around in the gardens, propping up the bar, and just generally pissing everybody else off. I had my first revision supervision today for Paper 6 (Literary Criticism) and have a surer idea of what I want to tackle before the exams. Aside from that I bought some art materials today (finer brushes and a few canvases), painting being something I've taken up this term to chill me out a bit if exam stress (or pissing-about-all-day-and-then-worrying-that-I-haven't-revised-enough stress) gets too much. You're not my tutor though, you're my DoS, so you probably care little about my mental health and would be perfectly happy if I ended up in a straight jacket and a padded cell as long as I got a first. Plus if I did I wouldn't be able to go the Scholars' Dinner so that a saving for the college right there.
Yours
Jon Clewes
PS: Tune of the moment: The Lovecats - The Cure
PPS: Really though, taking the pre-packaged sandwiches from hall and cutting them into little triangles? What do they pay your entertainment budget in? Bottle tops?
Jac