STRESSED

[hani_backup]

I have a personality psych paper (draft) due tomorrow on a case study we did ourselves.  No page minimum or length, just as much as we need.

I have a Science Fiction: Past and Present paper (final) due Friday.  It's 7-8 pages and I've only had some kind of pissant notes jotted around, despite meeting with my professor twice.  (I wish I had more to show her... I feel so bad.  I basically told her I hadn't started it yet.) 

This is my chosen topic for the 2nd paper:

1.)    Explore how one or two texts address questions surrounding human identity.  How do your chosen works define, redefine, estrange, satirize, or reaffirm humanness? What specific literary techniques do these texts use to do so?  Some of the different issues that you may address could include human and nonhuman:

 

·         intelligence

·         emotions

·         psychology

·         embodiment

·         consciousness and/or sentience

·         life (organic, mechanical, grotesque, sublime)

·         self-other relations (including racial, sexual, colonial, gendered, classed, species, or ecological relations)

·         culture and/or community

·         language and/or communication

·         science and/or technology

·         ethics and/or morality

·         faith and/or religion

·         aesthetics

·         creation and/or reproduction

·         anthropomorphism

·         historical and/or evolutionary transformation (“progress,” “regression”)

Of course I'm not doing all... I'm doing H.G. Wells's War of the Worlds and Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?  There should be enough compare/contrast between the two...

At least I got Tuesday's paper turned in, and Friday's other paper done with a partner (second draft) is done. 

I keep distracting myself by online stuff like YouTube and articles, emails, as well as trying to find jobs THAT APPLY TO MY MAJOR so I can use OPT... 

Must get down to it.  At least I have about 2 pages down for Personality Psych, single spaced. 

Feels way better then I double space it afterwards and bam! Longer!

Man, I have a craving for chicken now...

Comments

[unico-love.livejournal.com]

What is OPT? Good luck with your papers! I'm glad you got the one you were working on last night done!

[hani.livejournal.com]

This is OPT: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optional_Practical_Training (I don't want to mis-represent it or give wrong facts.)

Thanks for the good luck wish.

[unico-love.livejournal.com]

Ah, that's neat!:)