Only a couple of you have expressed even reluctant interest in meeting during the break, so I think we'll just skip that idea. It's not a problem, schedules and priorities change during break, that's fine. However, I cannot stress strongly enough how the deadlines you face in the Spring Term are going to be crashing in on us, and very soon! I don't want to waste any time, so I am assigning individual meeting times for the first and second weeks of the term. Absolutely no later than the Monday before your scheduled meeting with me I need you to submit to me by e-mail a 30-40pp. rough draft of your thesis. I am very confident every one of you can do this, even if you only get to writing in earnest right now. Your draft should reflect as best you can the feedback you have received from your Chairs and any other committee members who have gotten back to you by now. I also insist that everybody do me the courtesy of editing your writing very carefully for spelling and grammar issues -- which are rather tedious and distracting at this point in the process. Remember, what you want me to be focusing on at this point are issues of organization and argumentation. DO NOT PUT THIS OFF TO THE LAST MINUTE! Begin right now if you have not already done so. Your draft need not have a conclusion already, and I understand that a few of you may have rougher readings for some of your objects even at this stage, but make this draft as polished and complete as you possibly can.
In our individual meetings I will go over my edits of your most recent work, we will discuss together the sorts of feedback and problems you are receiving from your committees (if any), we will strategize how you should direct your attentions over the next month as your final reviews approach, and we will catch up with anything else that may be on your minds. I hope your breaks are going well, I hope your writing is going well, and I'm looking forward to talking with each and every one of you again.
Keep your eyes on the blog -- the spring syllabus and other news will be apprearing soon. Also, feel free to contact me before we meet with questions, problems, pieces of writing, and so on.
Friday, January 20 (Submit your draft to me ***absolutely no later than Monday January the 16th***)
1.00-1.25 Isabella
1.25-1.50 Alicia
1.50-2.15 Hadass
2.15-2.40 Zoe
2.40-3.05 Cole
Friday, January 27 (Submit your draft to me ***absolutely no later than the 23rd***)
1.00-1.25 Nadia
1.25-1.50 Candace
1.50-2.15 Orlando
2.15-2.40 Sheeka
2.40-3.05 Emily
3.05-3.30 Rebecca
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Dale, I think there's some confusion...at least on my end. Are these times going to be just individual meetings or are we meeting as a full class even if we're not scheduled?
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