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Monday, December 18th, 2006
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9:40a - Termination's Station
I live, again, at last. I swear that term just got more and more stressful towards the end, and, hey, I was right. I've barely done anything really productive in a week, let alone updated Livejournal. I'm not sure I've been this negligant of my journal in a long long time. I'll say now that I will attempt to update with what has been happening to me this past *checks* fortnight(!), but that's a lot of typing, and whilst what I type won't be essay, and require footnotes every two lines, I still could do with some serious time-out. It's a week until Christmas Day, and I still feel somewhere in mid-November. It's true: Uni ate my Life. I'm going to get lots of work done over the holiday so that this doesn't happen next time.
Of course, I make it worse for myself by refusing to realise that these are 2000 word essays. I thought my film essay was taking quite a long time, and its about 5000 words. If I get marked down for that, I'm not going to majorly care, because at least it shows I've done the research...or rather, far more research than required. I don't think I've been within wordcount once this term, although I started off well being only a few hundred over, rather than the entire wordcount once more and then a hundred for fun. Oy! I need to regain that spirit that I thrived on in sixth-form, whereby I'd do 2000 word essays in 2 to 4 hours, in one night, or over several school breaks. I blame the whole ethos of university for this bedevilled urge to over-read, over-know and over-write.
I also partially blame the lecturer for his extremely open-ended question, asking about Nazi Cinema in general, and not one aspect such as anti-Semitism, the portrayal of women, or escapism in war films. As such, I wrote about them all and went sky-high with the word count. All that, and I don't think I could write another essay now if I were paid to do so (well, depends on the price really). My ability to do essays has gone slowly downhill since early November, and essay fatigue has really taken its toll on my last two essays of the term. I just can't be bothered to do the slogging anymore, after having spent all-night vigils on such diverse topics as the Buildup to Pearl Harbor, Nationalismus und Liberalismus in Deutschland im 19. Jahrhundert, Symbolism and Conflict in 'Der Schimmelreiter', Nazi Cinema and Napoleonic Europe. Ah well, I suppose I'm learning things from all this...
On a completely different note, liquorice tea is strangely satisfying. I'll elaborate in a proper entry after I've spent the remainder of the morning passed-out with a hot chocolate.
Before I do that, however, I'll leave you with my final two essays of the term. If anyone reads them both in their entirity, I think that a) you must have a considerable amount of free time, and b) I'd be rather grateful. Well, we'll see. I've had enough of them. Especially that 5000-worder. Gah!
( “In der Schimmelreiter the sea and the dyke are central symbols, illuminating the main conflict of the novella.” Discuss. (2853 words, 853 over word limit) )
( Explain how the Nazi Regime used cinema to indoctrinate a mass audience (4968 words, 2968 over word limit) )
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