Hair length = 38 1/4"

[elettaria]

Come on hair, you can do better than this. You've been almost mid-thigh length in the past.

In other news, the uni finally decided that I am getting a distinction to go with my rather pathetic degree. Due to having completed only three years when the standard undergrad here is four, and despite one of those years being Honours, I am gettin an MA (Gen), unclassified though with a nice distinction, where any English university would have given me a first-class BA (Hons). Ah well. What I can't figure out is why it took them so long to figure it out, since every single mark I got for my Honours year was a First. As long as it gets me into the OU postgrad programme, I'm beyond caring by now. I'm contemplating whether or not to attend the graduation ceremony. Current thinking is Not.

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[kitmarlowe.livejournal.com]

Good grief, another lj person coming to the OU postgrad programme! Would you be starting in October? What would you be specialising in?

Hopefully meet you sometime then :) x

[elettaria.livejournal.com]

How could I start in October when the academic year starts in February? Or am I missing something? What country are you in? What are you doing with yours? What's it like?

I'm planning to do the taught Masters in Engligh Lit. First year would be the English Lit foundation module, then, which is 1880-1930 or summat with lashings of theory. Second year is a subject module, so it could be either an eighteenth-century novel course (one reason why I'm currently reading Clarissa), a Britain & India 1800-1990 course, or I could make it an MA in Humanities and go for a Greek theatre course, which sounds intriguing but I've been warned that it would put future unis off. For the third year, I'd do a dissertation based on something I'd studied already. None of the literature fields they offer as subject modules are anything I'd planned to specialise in long-term, though they sound pleasant enough. Oh for an early modern module, eh. I might end up doing theory for the dissertation, and with any luck they'd let me apply that to a different period.

[kitmarlowe.livejournal.com]

Ah, Open University. Sorry, I'm an utter muppet, I thought you meant Oxford *facepalm, I believe they say*.

I'm on a year out from my English BA at Oxford at the mo, should be re-starting my third year in October. I study almost exclusively medieval stuff (Old English, Middle English, Old Norse etc.), but that Britain and India module sounds potentially rather good. Very nice. Hope you enjoy, whichever ones you choose :)