ABD Dreams
Posted on November 19, 2003 @ 7:58 am
The big day is here; my oral comprehensive exam is at two o’clock this afternoon. As of right now, all I really know about the process is that I’ll sit down in a conference room with the four members of my doctoral committee, and they’ll ask me a series of questions about political science for a couple of hours. Of course, I would probably know more about it if my e-mail client didn’t keep filtering messages with the word “oral” in the subject line as spam.
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Good luck, man! If anyone can handle it I know you can. Remember Dr. Wade’s advice? When you get asked a question take as long a time answering it as you can to talk about subjects you are comfortable with.
Trust me, Dr. Wade’s words of wisdom were at the forefront of my mind throughout the comp. Of course, his horror stories about a fellow graduate student who was told by a member of his committee that he wasn’t going to pass him no matter how well he did also lurked somewhere in the background.
Of course, I would probably know more about it if my e-mail client didn’t keep filtering messages with the word “oral” in the subject line as spam.
That’s why good spam programs allow you to create white list rules. What are you using for spam these days anyway?
I finally switched over to Thunderbird, and I’ve really gotten to love it. The junk mail controls only caught the “oral” e-mails a couple of times before I finally got the good sense to add the grad school’s address to my address book and, in turn, my whitelist. Still, I thought it was a fun Bayesian boo-boo.