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This has been a real Murphy's Law day. First, I accidentally deleted one of my interview transcripts, and I'll have to type it all over again. Second, I had an over-the-phone job interview, and I don't think I did very well. After that I went to Philly for another thesis interview, and I slipped and fell on the subway stairs (no major injuries, but I will probably have a nasty ache in my lower back come tomorrow). I also realized that I didn't actually need to take the subway, as my interview was in the University Museum, and I could have walked there from 30th street - although, to be fair, it's rather slippery and there are lots of little twisty paths and whatnot in that area.
Anyway, I got a lot of information from my interview, but the person I was talking to is an anthropologist herself, so she had quite a lot to say (the interview went on 36 minutes, about half again the usual length of my interviews). At least I managed to get back to campus in time for my class - though just barely.
I also did a peer review assignment today of a classmate's response paper. I don't know the classmate's name and he (this is a Haverford class, so there are guys, though it may be a girl) will not know mine, which may be good because I didn't feel bad about harshly criticizing his response paper and he won't be able to take revenge on me for it. I mean, it wasn't the crappiest thing I've ever read, but it doesn't deal with the question posed by the assignment, the guy didn't do any analyses we hadn't already done in class, and the opinion he had instead of a thesis was not really explained or backed up. There were other problems, too, such as when he said that Japan's "judicial system" voted 14-1 against the plaintiff in a certain case. With that sentence, as with others, I think he started out heading for one destination and ended up somewhere else, without checking to see if his stuff scanned. Maybe I was a bit harsh, but I was in a bad mood already and even when I'm in a good mood I'm of the opinion that people who write sloppily should be rewarded with repeated and forceful applications of a two-by-four.
Anyway, I got a lot of information from my interview, but the person I was talking to is an anthropologist herself, so she had quite a lot to say (the interview went on 36 minutes, about half again the usual length of my interviews). At least I managed to get back to campus in time for my class - though just barely.
I also did a peer review assignment today of a classmate's response paper. I don't know the classmate's name and he (this is a Haverford class, so there are guys, though it may be a girl) will not know mine, which may be good because I didn't feel bad about harshly criticizing his response paper and he won't be able to take revenge on me for it. I mean, it wasn't the crappiest thing I've ever read, but it doesn't deal with the question posed by the assignment, the guy didn't do any analyses we hadn't already done in class, and the opinion he had instead of a thesis was not really explained or backed up. There were other problems, too, such as when he said that Japan's "judicial system" voted 14-1 against the plaintiff in a certain case. With that sentence, as with others, I think he started out heading for one destination and ended up somewhere else, without checking to see if his stuff scanned. Maybe I was a bit harsh, but I was in a bad mood already and even when I'm in a good mood I'm of the opinion that people who write sloppily should be rewarded with repeated and forceful applications of a two-by-four.
