A week ago, I became a fully-qualified doctoral candidate of Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz. With the help and support of friends, colleagues, professors, and family, not to mention the months I spent preparing, I passed my qualifying exams with flying colors.
Things have been quiet here, I know, but there’s really not much I can do about it. I’ve been devoting most of my waking hours towards preparing for my doctoral qualifying exams, a grotesquely medieval academic hazing ritual if ever there was one. I will spend a total of seven hours on May 18 and 19 sacrificing brain cells writing essays to appease the Great God Literature, then on the 24th of May I’ll sit at the end of a long table, opposite 4.5 of the Great God Literature’s henchmen, doing my very best to keep a straight face as they scrape metal claws along a chalkboard ask me what the hell I was thinking when I wrote said essays. …
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