Life in German studies:

[feuervogel]

Semester 1, Professor A: class and readings largely in German, secondary literature discussion in everyone's own native language. "Write your paper in your native language because using the other one will get you a lower grade because you're not good at it."

Semester 2, Professor B: class entirely in German; paper in whichever language we want (yay visiting professors).

Semester 3, Professor C: class mostly in English. "Write your paper in your native language, because it won't be as good in the other one."

Semester 3, Professor D: class entirely in German. Every written assignment in German, including final paper.

Me: complaining about this sudden change in expectations
Other people: "It's a German Studies program, what did you expect>!?!?"

Gee, idk, two of our professors think we shouldn't even bother writing in German because it will be shit, so I DON'T FUCKING KNOW where I could have gotten the expectation that writing in German wasn't an obligation.

Comments

[eirias]

Academia, amirite?
Hope that it works out okay, and that your German skills get a good & useful workout.

[feuervogel]

Thanks! I got my second essay proofread by an Austrian and that turned out much better grammatically. (though I didn't make as many errors anyway.)

And yeah...academia is kind of a fool's game, but here I am.