Posted by Kathryn in American Studies on February 11, 2014
It’s been a while, but I thought I’d leave it long enough to report how my resolutions are going (that’s the story I’m going with). My one exam is long gone, the first essay of the term handed in and I have even started my dissertation (400/10,000 words down). So how are my new year’s […]
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Posted by Kathryn in American Studies on October 25, 2013
After nearly three weeks of lectures and working almost 20 hours a week, I must say I am shattered. I had been mentally preparing myself over summer for the shock of actually having to do things, but it’s still always an unwelcome feeling when your planner is full of red deadlines highlighted and circled repeatedly […]
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Posted by Kathryn in American Studies on October 7, 2013
Obsessing over: Once again, my dissertation; I have a meeting tomorrow with my dissertation supervisor to chat about the plan for this year. I’m writing about the representations of Native American women in film (a great excuse to watch Pocahontas) and thankfully have a 3,500 word project that I wrote in America as a basis […]
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Posted by Kathryn in American Studies on September 6, 2013
Factually correct analogies brought to you by my good friend and soon-to-be flatmate. I was going to call this post ‘busy bee’, but either way it has to be said things are picking up. The wheels are beginning to turn on the final year adventure, and I’m already furiously scribbling in my planner in the […]
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Posted by Kathryn in American Studies on July 31, 2013
Odd, I know; rather than Spring cleaning this year it seems like I need to do a Spring,Summer and Autumn clean all at once, especially with how quick this year is going! Having been away for a year, you’d think I wouldn’t accumulate too much stuff, but alas my room constantly resembles a jumble sale […]
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