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I wrote 4 papers (17 pages, 12 pages, 16 pages in German, 14 pages), three of them before the semester ended. One I finished about an hour ago, after grades were posted. The professor granted me an extension, which is good, because anything I would have been able to turn in last Friday, 2 days after finishing my paper in German, would have been utter crap.
I taught 2 sections of second semester German; the larger section had a beautiful normal distribution of final grades, but the smaller section only had 8 people, so no pretty graph. One reason I didn't get my papers finished was because I had to grade 27 final exams.
I got straight As for the first time in grad school! No A- in my literature classes for once (I had 2 this semester). (Yeah, the professor who gave me the extension already gave me an A...)
My paper for the Nibelungenlied class was apparently very good; I got a 94% on it, and my native-German-speaking proofreader said it was better than a lot of papers she proofread in Germany in both grammar/style AND content, so yay. I wrote about the different gender roles between Scandinavia and the Germanic area and how this is seen in the Kriemhild/Gudrun figure. I'm going to ask the professor if he thinks I can get it published. I need to add about 2000 words to reach the minimum for the first journal I can think of, so it won't be happening before summer.
My spring semester is probably going to be just as bad; I have 4 classes again, and they're all Tuesday/Thursday, though I'm only teaching one section of first-semester German with 11 people in it. Grading will be less, and I'll have 4 fewer hours in a classroom, but lesson planning still takes forEVer, regardless of how many sections I teach.
My spring classes: Variationist linguistics, German morphology and phonology, Gothic, and something about migration within Germany from our visiting professor. Gothic won't have a paper, because the professor doesn't do that in his language classes, just has a midterm and final where you translate things and reproduce paradigms (plus weekly quizzes on vocab and paradigms). I assume the variationism class will have one and the migration one. The morph/phon prof said he wasn't sure whether there'd be a paper, but there might be. He also said it could potentially be a group paper, which would possibly help.
I'm still doing roller derby, and I'm learning how to be an official, because I am pretty sure I will never be comfortable enough with being hit to play competitively. Plus it's a lot of fun to officiate, kind of like running a convention. I am also going to shadow the Bout VP and learn how to manage bouts when we have home games.
Over the next week or so (I go back to Georgia Jan 2, and we start classes Jan 4), I need to read & review for my written MA exam, which will be given the first Friday in February. I'm pretty nervous about it, because I have no idea how detailed they want me to be (ie do they want me to give verbatim citations? can I just say "Milford 1972 discusses blah blah blah"? Do I need to give citations at all?) and there is basically no direction about the test format or how to prepare, other than "read everything and take notes."
I taught 2 sections of second semester German; the larger section had a beautiful normal distribution of final grades, but the smaller section only had 8 people, so no pretty graph. One reason I didn't get my papers finished was because I had to grade 27 final exams.
I got straight As for the first time in grad school! No A- in my literature classes for once (I had 2 this semester). (Yeah, the professor who gave me the extension already gave me an A...)
My paper for the Nibelungenlied class was apparently very good; I got a 94% on it, and my native-German-speaking proofreader said it was better than a lot of papers she proofread in Germany in both grammar/style AND content, so yay. I wrote about the different gender roles between Scandinavia and the Germanic area and how this is seen in the Kriemhild/Gudrun figure. I'm going to ask the professor if he thinks I can get it published. I need to add about 2000 words to reach the minimum for the first journal I can think of, so it won't be happening before summer.
My spring semester is probably going to be just as bad; I have 4 classes again, and they're all Tuesday/Thursday, though I'm only teaching one section of first-semester German with 11 people in it. Grading will be less, and I'll have 4 fewer hours in a classroom, but lesson planning still takes forEVer, regardless of how many sections I teach.
My spring classes: Variationist linguistics, German morphology and phonology, Gothic, and something about migration within Germany from our visiting professor. Gothic won't have a paper, because the professor doesn't do that in his language classes, just has a midterm and final where you translate things and reproduce paradigms (plus weekly quizzes on vocab and paradigms). I assume the variationism class will have one and the migration one. The morph/phon prof said he wasn't sure whether there'd be a paper, but there might be. He also said it could potentially be a group paper, which would possibly help.
I'm still doing roller derby, and I'm learning how to be an official, because I am pretty sure I will never be comfortable enough with being hit to play competitively. Plus it's a lot of fun to officiate, kind of like running a convention. I am also going to shadow the Bout VP and learn how to manage bouts when we have home games.
Over the next week or so (I go back to Georgia Jan 2, and we start classes Jan 4), I need to read & review for my written MA exam, which will be given the first Friday in February. I'm pretty nervous about it, because I have no idea how detailed they want me to be (ie do they want me to give verbatim citations? can I just say "Milford 1972 discusses blah blah blah"? Do I need to give citations at all?) and there is basically no direction about the test format or how to prepare, other than "read everything and take notes."
