Ink: on paper, on skin

[sacredchao23]

The dissertation prospectus has now been distributed to the rest of my committee after having finally passed muster with my chair. Hopefully there will not be a lot of rewriting after this. But of course that's what I said about the first few drafts

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[la_fields]

Your posts make me miss academia and praise my lucky stars that I'm out of it in the same breath. I'm just like "guh just think of all that work it sounds so hideous ooooh Oscar Wilde I want to write 11 dissertations about him!"

[sacredchao23]

It is both an amazingly fulfilling and terrifying venture. As far as dissertations go, there are kind of two routes that I have recognized. You either find some new thing that no one has ever seen and thus never worked on (my chair's dissertation--soon to be important book from major academic publisher--looked at the huge amount of Victorian drama that no one ever reads or is even aware exists.) The other, for us masochists, revolves around writing on people and works that are thoroughly written about. Hence, the Wilde, (and the Dickens, and the Brontes, and kind of Pater.)

[la_fields]

I'm still finding ideas that I thought I came up with first, and I'm not even in school anymore. Good luck, dude.