Whee! Bureaucratic travails!
Uni having started yesterday, today I went to see the Honours co-ordinator to remind her that I exist. It turned out that the Faculty had neglected to inform the department that I'd been accepted into Honours, and that was why I hadn't heard anything about a supervisor or classes.
Wheels are now in motion to get me a supervisor (she's decided that, instead of asking someone she thinks would be good, she's going to ask for volunteers - I don't know if this means I'll be waiting awhile for someone?), and I know where my compulsory class is being held tomorrow.
What I need to do now is find an undergraduate course - pretty much anywhere in the faculty - that pertains to my thesis topic, and whose convenor is amenable to having me around making a nuisance of myself.
There are lots of possibilities here, since I've settled on a thesis topic which includes pretty much everything I get excited about - sex, violence and physics, all united by trashy television.
I'd been vaguely intending to take a course called 'Women in Science', which is offered by the History & Philosophy of Science people - or more to the point, was offered by them. Apparently it was last run in 2003 (which is naturally why it's still on their website, which didn't exist until last year).
So then, I thought I'd take 'Science and Society', which is run by the same people, since the course description talks a lot about scientists in the media, and social implications of society. But it's run in first semester, not second.
And now I don't know what to do, so I've decided to do the sensible thing, which is to open it up to the legions of readers I'm confident I have, despite the fact that they all seem to pass unnoticed in the night. Find me an undergraduate unit of study at Sydney, which has some bearing on my thesis topic, and which is being run this semester. Fly, my pretties, fly, fly!
Also, if anyone knows anything about a banned film called Phases of Death, I'd love to hear about it.
Uni having started yesterday, today I went to see the Honours co-ordinator to remind her that I exist. It turned out that the Faculty had neglected to inform the department that I'd been accepted into Honours, and that was why I hadn't heard anything about a supervisor or classes.
Wheels are now in motion to get me a supervisor (she's decided that, instead of asking someone she thinks would be good, she's going to ask for volunteers - I don't know if this means I'll be waiting awhile for someone?), and I know where my compulsory class is being held tomorrow.
What I need to do now is find an undergraduate course - pretty much anywhere in the faculty - that pertains to my thesis topic, and whose convenor is amenable to having me around making a nuisance of myself.
There are lots of possibilities here, since I've settled on a thesis topic which includes pretty much everything I get excited about - sex, violence and physics, all united by trashy television.
I'd been vaguely intending to take a course called 'Women in Science', which is offered by the History & Philosophy of Science people - or more to the point, was offered by them. Apparently it was last run in 2003 (which is naturally why it's still on their website, which didn't exist until last year).
So then, I thought I'd take 'Science and Society', which is run by the same people, since the course description talks a lot about scientists in the media, and social implications of society. But it's run in first semester, not second.
And now I don't know what to do, so I've decided to do the sensible thing, which is to open it up to the legions of readers I'm confident I have, despite the fact that they all seem to pass unnoticed in the night. Find me an undergraduate unit of study at Sydney, which has some bearing on my thesis topic, and which is being run this semester. Fly, my pretties, fly, fly!
Also, if anyone knows anything about a banned film called Phases of Death, I'd love to hear about it.
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