#15 page paper due this thursday that i did NOT spend enough time on yet. but im getting through it lol

[copepods]

found a lonely little mushroom island in my survival world. the ocean is so small i can see the shore go all the way around from here. it's a wonder the island managed to spawn at all!

[anwandering]

Apologies & Recaps

Hi friends!

I am the absolute WORST and completely and totally dropped the ball on my blogging last year. There are a lot of reasons for that, the primary one of which was that I was very busy taking classes and seeing things and being a person! It’s far beyond the time when it would be appropriate or possible to go back and rewrite all of those missed posts, but I did take notes on each day and, for the sake of continuity, here they are:

6/21 - We had class & taraweeh at Masjid Auwal. 6/22 - Our last class with John, and an evening spent preparing for the final! 6/23 - After our final, my friend/roommate Maryanne and I got massages and had a fancy dinner at a Japanese/Portuguese fusion place. Then I went to the mosque for taraweeh, and my uber driver told me that white people were crazy (I have no memory of the context, but that’s what happened). 6/24 - As part of my mosque exploration project, I ventured out of the Cape Town city center to Wynberg to check out The Open Mosque for Friday prayers, which claims to be an open and egalitarian mosque (and has a lot of politics/drama with other Cape Town mosques). After that, I and some other folks from the program did some ziplining in Constantia, supposedly some of Africa’s highest and longest ziplines. It was foggy and hella high and lots of fun! After that, we ate at the Africa Cafe, a pan-African restaurant that serves about a million courses, and I wrapped up the day with prayers at the mosque. 6/25 - Maryanne and I went to a play about Alon Paton’s life, which was hyped up a lot, and wasn’t bad, but was really white focused. Then we went to Eastern Food Bazaar, which is a central market/food type of place (with LOTS of Muslims and Muslim food places), had some ice cream, and I wrapped up at the mosque. 6/26 - I did laundry this day, went to the mosque for a midday class, did some reading for Jean’s first class the next day, and wrapped up with yet another night at the mosque. 6/27 - We had Jean’s first class today! We also had a house meeting in the evening, and I yet again went to the mosque. 6/28 - I had class, I did some work (I forgot I was employed this summer haha), and went to the Claremont Main Road Mosque -- I thought there was a youth qiyam, but it turns out they define youth as literal children, so I left empty-handed :( I also had a whole situation with paying my taxi driver, because I didn’t have enough cash and had to ask him to stop at an ATM and it was all very much a hassle. The mosque was nice, though! 6/29 - I had class today and napped for a very long time! 6/30 - I had class and wrapped up with yet another trip to the mosque. 7/1 - Today we went to the District Six Museum, which is about District Six, an area in Cape Town that was integrated before its 60,000 residents were forcibly removed by the apartheid regime. The stories were incredibly moving, and the tour guides at the museum were all actual former residents of District Six, so it was quite the perspective. A lot of the families were Muslim, too. After that, I went to the mosque for taraweeh. 7/2 - This day is embarrassing, honestly. I went to Table Mountain to climb it with some friends, but I was fasting and sick and nearly had an asthma attack on my way up. So I went home instead and found my way to the mosque at night. 7/3 - Today was one of my favorite days of the whole trip! Maryanne and I had lunch with a whole bunch of Zimpande’s friends, all of whom were really cool and had been involved in politics in some capacity (many in RhodesMustFall/FeesMustFall). We had a lot of really great conversations about all sorts of politics (including Libya and the pan-Africanist obsession with Gaddafi), and also had really amazing food. After that, we went to a movie screening a group Zimpande was a part of was holding of a movie about a terrorist attack in Kenya, which was surprisingly okay. This was a very very cold day! 7/4 - I had class and a house meeting today. 7/5 - I had class and a guest lecture today, from a South African news writer/pundit. 7/6 - This day was Eid! We went to prayers very early in the morning, then went to class. After class, we had a group Eid brunch followed by a very long nap for me. Note to self: Eids away from home are very sad. 7/7 - I had class today, followed by a short nap. After that, I got to meet another really cool friend of Zimpande’s Tasneem, who is a Muslim student at UCT. We had coffee together and then met up with other students for First Thursdays, which is when a whole bunch of museums and art galleries open up for the first Thursday of the month. They were super full but in general it was a really fun night. We followed it up with a really delicious late-night meal that got a little heated when we started arguing about Harvard’s single-gender social organization policy. Oops. 7/8 - On this day, we went on a trip to the National Gallery, which had a really cool central exhibit on protest. We got to talk to the woman who curated the exhibit, and had a really interesting conversation about what goes into that. After that, we had lunch and rested for the rest of the day. 7/9 - On this day, I was beginning to get sick! I also worked on the midterm for Jean’s class. 7/10 - While my friends went out and hiked, I was sick and sad and in bed today :( 7/11 - Today was still a sick-ish day -- I went to class, followed by a trip with Dahlia to the Kirstenbosch gardens, which were beautiful and also chilling because they had belonged to Cecil John Rhodes. Dahlia brought her hammock and we rigged it up and had a nice little time swinging and talking on top of a little creek. After that, we had house dinner. 7/12 - I had class today! I also was still sick, so Jean and John drove me to the doctor who told me there wasn’t much he could do. After that, I hung out with friends at a cafe near Tamboerskloof before we headed up for a guest lecture about protest music, which was really, really cool. 7/13 - Today was the last class of the whole program! After it ended, Maryanne, Tasneem, Zimpande and I went to a book launch for a cute little book for girls of color. It was a beautiful little book and a great talk. After, we had dinner together and at long last Maryanne and I went home to work on our 15-20 page final papers, which are due in a day or two and which we have done very very little work on! 7/14 - Today was a day spent exclusively paper writing. 7/15 - After staying up all night, I spent all of today paper writing too! We went to try to go to Robben Island one more time, but the bridge wasn’t working and we didn’t get to, so we just went back to paper writing. After a really wild day full of no food, loud noises, and frantic typing, Maryanne and I both finished our papers on time! 7/16 - On this day, we went to the Solms Delta wine farm, which is a wine farm that was built on stolen land (as most of them were), but the owner of this one decided to give part of it up as a co-op owned by workers. It’s an interesting model and obviously doesn’t go far enough as reparations, and the guy who runs it was a little too self-congratulatory, but it was interesting nonetheless. After that, we met another of Zimpande’s friends, Kabura, and had a little bit of a sad conversation about activism and how draining it is and the choices people have to make to survive. 7/17 - I finally went to Table Mountain today, although I took the cable car up and down because I wasn’t looking for a redo of the last time. It was a beautiful view (albeit very windy), and I enjoyed having lunch alone up there. After that, all of us got together in Dionne’s room and hung out, I had a farewell dinner with Tasneem, and spent the night packing. 7/18 - Today’s our flight to Johannesburg! We said goodbye to folks in the guesthouses and headed out to the airport. Once we landed, we met David Bunn, our professor for the rest of the trip, and had a short lecture about our program in Johannesburg and Kruger. 7/19-21 - We went to museums, former prisons/courts, a play, and various other locations across Johannesburg. The city had a very different feel to it, and is definitely somewhere I want to visit again! 7/21-24 - We started our pedagogical safari through Kruger after a day at the Wits research center, meeting some really cool folks who would go on the trip with us that were thinking about conservation in a lot of different ways. Over the course of the trip, we saw nearly all of the Big Five, went on a walk through the bush on foot, had several lectures/conversations about conservation and borders, stood at the intersection of Zimbabwe, Mozambique, and South Africa, and generally had a really fun time! I had my birthday during this part of the trip, which meant I got first pick on the beds but ALSO meant that the groups had a really sweet little birthday party for me. This part of the trip was really amazing and sparked a lot of critical questions for me in areas I hadn’t thought about! 7/25-27 - We spent some time at a research center in Hamakuya before spending a night in homestays with families. Our family consisted of Johana and her granddaughter, both of whom were really sweet. We spent time across the village and learned a lot about the family and the political issues in the area, as well as conducted a survey on water quality. This stretch of the trip was obviously problematic in many ways and wasn’t nearly close to long enough for actual research, but with that in mind, I enjoyed my time with Johana and her family, and also learned a lot! We debriefed after and wrapped up with a nice little dinner and campfire.

And that was the trip, folks! Sorry again that I never updated (boo @ me), but I’ll try to do better this summer -- stay tuned :)

[feedbaylenny]

First, I have to thank everybody who looked at Monday’s blog post. The analytics were incredible, the best ever (and that’s all that counts, right? 🙂). If you haven’t seen it yet, it gives a brief overview of the place I worked for 15 months until August. Feel free to comment below it, or on my Twitter page. You can also subscribe to these blogs with your email address and get an email automatically every time I post.

One thing I left out was that during the long interview process, in early 2016, while I was working a great job in the Tri-Cities of TN/VA, the future boss asked me at the end of a Friday Skype interview to write up a critique of the station’s website. I was literally told it was “to see how smart” I am. Two other managers were sitting right there. I was given a week, but finished it that weekend because I was so excited about the possibility of returning to Philadelphia.

Look below and see, it was a very long and thoughtful critique, and included multiple pictures. During my interview at Fox 29 — coincidentally on Leap Day, Feb. 29, 2016 — the boss even joked about still reading it! I guess it was good. Too bad most of it was never implemented. That was a clue of what was to come, but it was too late. I had already moved and started the job. (The document is a slideshow. Click below to move forward, back, or to stop it.)

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That’s all I have to say here on the subject of that station.

Just this week, a Pew Research Center report announced fewer Americans rely on TV news, and what type they watch varies by who they are. It found,

“Just 50 percent of U.S. adults now get news regularly from television, down from 57 percent a year prior in early 2016.”

That’s a 14 percent decline! Not only that, but the number takes into account local TV (still first place), cable TV (still second place), and also network TV (still third place).

I think the demographics are even more interesting. According to Pew, college graduates and high-income people watch much less local TV and network TV news. Cable news varies little.

The research doesn’t say but perhaps these people are working longer hours or have more access to news on electronic devices. Or they find the product dumbed-down. The first two possibilities can’t be changed but the last can.

But I think the biggest finding has to do with age. Pew divided the population into four groups, from 18-29 through 65+. It found across all groups, the younger a person is makes them much, much less likely to watch local, network, and also cable TV news. That sounds ominous for the future.

Again, the research doesn’t say, but I’ve learned from working with people young enough to be my children they have no history of getting the news from a scheduled TV newscast, or even cable. They were raised with technology that hadn’t been invented when the older people were growing up. They have no special tie to the TV set, having to watch on schedule, and probably can’t imagine watching in black and white.

(To go along with that, a huge majority of my students — who were younger around the year 2010, plus or minus a few — hadn’t even heard of a typewriter!) Also notice radio and newspapers were not even considered in the research.

Note the research was not done on web reading but following my train of thought, Americans will continue to use newer technology to get their news, which makes the web — whether desktop, tablet, phone, or whatever comes next — more and more important. We cannot continue to dumb it down, make mistakes, and hire cheap, good-looking but inexperienced people in big cities. We also need to root out the so-called journalists that lack ethics.

Click here to see the results in a chart, which also divides the American population by gender, race, and politics.

The Radio Television Digital News Association — and we know its agenda — asks, “Is the news for local TV stations all bad?”

Its former chair Kevin Benz admits, “Stations are producing more newscasts because local production is cheap with higher payback potential from selling local advertisers.” Let’s not forget we’re coming off an election year with lots of ads.

The organization claims “profitability has been trending level or up since 2010” and “This is also far from the first time local news has been written off due to changing consumption habits … but newsrooms have been slow to adapt.”

Back in the Tri-Cities, I was told many people get their news from their Facebook feed. That’s pitiful and of course, Facebook benefits but the publishers really don’t, other than a click to their own websites.

In the past year, not much has come out of the Facebook Journalism Project led by former news anchor Campbell Brown — who has since shown her true politics with The 74 Million, advocating for charter and private schools by taking money away from public schools. (I wrote about that in “Why teaching isn’t for me anymore” here, almost two years ago.)

According to Digiday, problems are that publishers have different business models and want different things from Facebook. And Facebook has mostly let publishers see new products before they launched, and listen to their feedback on various subjects at twice-annual meetings with nice meals. Subjects have included Instant Articles and starting a subscription product so you can’t read unlimited articles for free. There’s also discussion about separating factual news from somebody posting fiction.

File: Oprah Winfrey

It didn’t help that NBC tweeted about Oprah Winfrey possibly becoming president in the future during Sunday’s Golden Globe Awards.

NBC’s website has now clips of her speech and this description:

“The media mogul received the Cecil B. DeMille award at the A-list event, and brought the crowd to its feet with a rallying cry for solidarity amid the #MeToo and Time’s Up movements.”

The harassment scandals were huge. That’s what Oprah addressed. I’ve even written about it twice: here (“What is conscience? Elusive in the media, unfortunately”) and here (“Hey, you accused! Would Mom say, wait until your father gets home?”).

I’ve also tweeted about women who weren’t getting paid the same as men.

#GenderPayGap: “In negotiations with the network, she said she and her team ‘asked for what I know I deserve and were denied repeatedly.'” #money https://t.co/FNvQpNhh8A

— Lenny Cohen (@feedbaylenny) December 21, 2017

SEPARATE BUT SIMILAR SITUATION: From disagreement over #money to title. #NBC‘s DC sportscaster leaves. #Enews owned by same company. https://t.co/COKfnmpgmu https://t.co/pAglGkqk9e

— Lenny Cohen (@feedbaylenny) December 23, 2017

There’s something to be said for the anchor with decades of experience. Overpaid? Yes. But the good ones also play a #leadership role and keep the ship steady when multiple overpaid #CEOs come and go. https://t.co/0wcsXgQAtG

— Lenny Cohen (@feedbaylenny) December 27, 2017

Variety reported, “Host Seth Meyers even joked about the prospect in his opening monologue. The tweet from NBC said, ‘Nothing but respect for OUR future president. #GoldenGlobes.’”

The next morning, the network put out a statement, blaming outsourcing. Of course, the first tweet was removed.

Yesterday a tweet about the Golden Globes and Oprah Winfrey was sent by a third party agency for NBC Entertainment in real time during the broadcast. It is in reference to a joke made during the monologue and not meant to be a political statement. We have since removed the tweet.

— NBC (@nbc) January 8, 2018

How horrible! Oprah hadn’t yet spoken at the time, she never mentioned anything about becoming president, viewers won’t know the difference between a tweet from NBC Entertainment or NBC News if it doesn’t say, and why would the network let a third-party vendor tweet on its account, especially without overseeing? The network has no competent employee in-house? Disappointing!

The peacock isn’t proud

And late-breaking Thursday morning, we learned 18-year Fox News veteran James Rosen left the network – without Fox giving a reason – after eight of his former colleagues claimed he “had an established pattern of flirting aggressively with many peers and had made sexual advances toward three female Fox News journalists,” according to TVNewser.

Mediaite reports,

“One accusation involved him groping a female colleague in a shared-cab—an action she did not consent to. He then reportedly attempted to retaliate after his sexual advances were denied by attempting to take her sources, which would serve to damage her professional image.”

Also, the Washington Post says it suspended 28-year reporter Joel Achenbach for 90 days what it called “inappropriate workplace conduct” involving current and former female colleagues. He apologized in a statement, but the paper will continue to investigate.

I’m going to end on a better note, in contrast to what I wrote about Monday. Know I’ve been interviewing with different national and international companies here in Philadelphia. Tuesday, I found out I made it to the next round with one firm, and I’m obviously very happy about that. I told the woman on the phone who was simply following up on her morning email that everybody has been so supportive. We’d talked before and her response was simply that they are a partnership, rather than a corporation, and that there is no need for competition amongst (potential) employees.

That’s nice to hear, and it gives me hope.

P.S. On a personal note: Tuesday night in Florida, my mother fell in the kitchen. She hit her face on the floor. There was lots of blood, but no concussion. Turns out, she broke her pelvis in three places: two in the front, and one in the back. No surgery required, but she’ll have to spend another day or two in the hospital. The next two weeks are supposed to be very painful, and it could take her four months to get better. The doctor suggested time rehab since she can’t do much. Please keep her in your thoughts. 😦

Follow-up, fewer watching TV news, future president? First, I have to thank everybody who looked at Monday's blog post. The analytics were incredible, the best ever (

[thecheeverfillesseniorthesis]

The Cheever Files The Cheever Files Adventures of a Senior Thesis.  Secondary blog of @midlife-stoodent.

D-1

Had to jump the count a few days because my Senior thesis is due TODAY.  I had the due date in my planner as Sunday.  

I am nearly finished with it.  I turned in my thesis and subclaims into my prof via email, then when I got started, I used the same and wrote out my own words beneath my subclaims (I changed their type to BOLD to keep them separate).  It worked!  I am able to maintain an outline!  I tend to scatter ideas…

I am not asking for an extension.  I have asked for them all term and I simply need to get this done.  I am 10 pages in, I have three sublaims left to do, and it’s not due until 11:59PM tonight.

THIS WILL HAPPEN.

I work best when dealing with absolute fear.  Don’t follow my example.   #thecheeverfiles#studyblr#studyspo#spring2016#ELNM#seniorthesis 5 notes

D-5

The struggle is very real.  Still receiving instruction from my prof on my thesis.

At least my tense is correct.

BTW, I work better under pressure.  Spending an entire term on a paper has yet to work for me.

LISTENING TO:  Our Lady Peace #thecheeverfiles#studyblr#studyspo#spring2016#ELNM#seniorthesis 3 notes

D-7.  Senior Thesis is due this week. Thankfully I am off of work, so that’s one less thing to worry about.

My digital project is completed (first picture) and that has been uploaded.  I am still (yes, still) working on my thesis and subclaims.  I emailed a correction back to my prof this afternoon, once I hone my thesis she will get to my subclaims.

Tomorrow I have to drop off my paperwork for my Service Learning, and take the TB test.  I don’t know if all of this is going to get done before the end of the term, but that professor has given us an option if we weren’t able to solidify our service learning before the term ended.  

I think 60 coffee pods should last me until the end of the week?  Last term I went through 80 in a week and a half, and this term is way harder.  I may need more… #thecheeverfiles#studyblr#studyspo#spring2016#ELNM#Seniorthesis#starbucks 3 notes

D-15.  Rough Draft final draft, if that makes sense.  I am truly blessed to have an amazing advisor/professor who gave us an extension (read: mercy) to turn it in for our rough draft workshop.  I have until 6AM tomorrow morning to get this uploaded. **weeps with gratefulness**

Did I ever mention the size of my Senior Thesis class?  There’s myself, and two other ladies.  One of the many benefits of attending a small, private university.

I admit, I did the usual “check-out” in the middle of the term, where I was watching You Tube videos instead of writing.  Then today, when the module for Week 8 comes out, we get the admonishment to not check out.  

I am reeling myself back in.  

Sumikko guroshi page flags for for ultimate win!

LISTENING TO:  The Cure Disintegration #thecheeverfiles#studyblr#studyspo#spring2016#ELNM#seniorthesis#sumikkoguroshi#obviouslyilovemycoffee 4 notes

D-18

Rough draft time.  Have my most excellent feedback from my professor to help, as well as my own lightbulb moment.  All I need now is the time to get it written.  She did extend the due date for us, which I absolutely love because our drafts go into a workshop for final editing.  

I miscalculated my vacation time from work, it’s next week, and I should have asked for this week, or even the rest of the month off.

Oh well.  It will get done.

LISTENING TO:  Morrissey’s Viva Hate #thecheeverfiles#studyblr#studyspo#spring2016#ELNM#seniorthesis 1 note

D-25.  25 days left to go.

Along with my essay, I also have to complete a digital assignment as part of my grade to add to my portfolio.  Ovid’s Metamorphoses arrived via Amazon Student Prime today.  Yes, Ovid + Cheever=Digital Project.  It’s going to be awesome.

Still trying to raise my thesis from the bowels of hell.  I was going to discuss the agency of the various rooms used in “A Country Husband” but I realized I needed to narrow that focus, so I am doing the agency of living rooms in the text.  Of course, it throws my rough draft right out the window…

I love my Starbucks cup. #thecheeverfiles#studyblr#studyspo#spring2016#ELNM#seniorthesis#metamorphoses#starbucks#seemyfilofax? 7 notes

My First Draft is turned in, a minute past my self-imposed deadline of 5AM. I am so thankful my boss let me leave work two hours early so I could go home, nap, and finish this madness.  I am not good at first drafts…a final copy I can do, but first drafts?  My mind is still a jumble of thoughts and quotes.

After I uploaded my draft, I found an article on John Cheever that said he isn’t taught in schools anymore, if he ever really was.  I find that to be a big old shame because the man is brilliant.  Needless to say, even though I had already turned in my draft, I am now determined to make my paper a testament to his literary greatness.  The man should be taught in schools, students are really missing out.

I am going to sleep the sleep of a student who has been burning the candle at both ends, what with full-time work and three classes to deal with.   #thecheeverfiles#studyblr#studyspo#spring2016#ELNM#seniorthesis 1 note

Literary TheoryLiterary Theory Senior ThesisLiterary TheorySenior Thesis 4/22/16:  Over the course of my academic career (so far, it’s only been what, two years?) I have learned working with a printout of a text is much easier for annotating than with a book.  I have absolutely no shame in destroying a book in the name of essay writing, but there is less guilt with using a printout.  This is my copy of “A Country Husband”, the first and second pages.  Yeah, I use Midori stickers to mark important transitions within the text.

I have also learned to SAVE. MY. NOTES from previous classes.  Last term, I took Literary Theory, and I need to apply a theoretical lens to my thesis.  It is times like these I am glad I am so anal about my notes, as my notebook from Lit Theory is divided by the different theories.  

The rough draft is due next week, already I have the very familiar pangs of self-doubt.  Maybe I am placing too much pressure on myself, but this paper is a reflection of me and my scholarship.  In no way do I want to come off as pedestrian, but that is my largest fear moving forward. #thecheeverfiles#studyblr#studyspo#spring2016#ELNM#seniorthesis 2 notes

Senior Thesis, Week 4:  Way back when I took Literary Analysis (from the same professor) I kept all of the writing “hacks” she gave us.  I printed them all up and tucked them away into a file folder.  Turns out she’s using them for this class as well.  Don’t know if the drawing belongs to her, but it still makes me laugh.  Funny, two years ago when I took Literary Analysis I was very self-conscious of my essay-writing.  Now it doesn’t phase me at all.  

I am reading Cheever’s “Letters”…the man is hilarious, dark and so right-on with his discriptions of humanity.  There’s an entire section entitled “The Suburbs”, from when he moved his family out of the city to upstate NY.  The passage I highlighted tickles me, but I have to wonder:  how often do we look at the belongings of others to remind us of who we are and where we came from?

My schedule for the upcoming week.  My days off are Thursday and Friday, so I begin the fresh week there.  Today (Monday) I register for Summer.  I have to be at work by 230PM and other than continuing my Cheever reading I have my two other classes.  

WRITE EVERY DAY.  

Our rough draft is due next week, so this is our instruction. #thecheeverfiles#studyblr#studyspp#spring2016#ELNM#seniorthesis 7 notes

Got my Prospectus/Annotated Bibliography done, several hours before I was scheduled to turn it in, so that’s over.

This week we will be working on our Digital Project/Digital Presence, so we get a break from writing.  Doesn’t mean the fun stops, I still have two other classes to maintain.  Above is my weekly calendar, I use it as well as my Ardium Academic planner.  My “weekend” is on Thursday/Friday, which is why the dates are wonky.

As for Digital Presence, I really am not worried about it.  I cleaned up my social media when I was accepted to uni because I knew there would be a time where I had to do the exact same thing, so I just wiped a whole bunch of accounts.   #thecheeverfiles#studyblr#studysop#spring2016#ELNM#Seniorthesis 3 notes

Prospectus and Annotated Bibliography Work:

This is the current time.  Not too bad, as I don’t get home from work until after 11PM, but my eyes are getting tired.  I’m indulging in a large mug of black tea, having consumed enough coffee over the course of the day to sink a ship.

I have spent this past week reading and researching.  I carry a book or an article with me at all times, because you never know when you are going to have a moment to catch up on some reading.  I had a few minutes while at the gas station the other day, so I read a few paragraphs.  

You do what you have to do to get it done.  :)

My beat up Writer’s Reference book, a university requirement.  

No, I don’t have to work tomorrow (sarcasm).

I have my annotations completed, but I need to edit them to make sure all of the commas are in the right place.  I am almost finished with the prospectus part.

I did, however, make sure Word was functional on my iPad and the entire project was accessible.  WIN.  Now I can finish this up at work tomorrow.

It’s due at 11:59 Monday night.   #thecheeverfiles#studyblr#studyspo#spring2016#ELNM#seniorthesis 21 notes

Day 2:  Well, technically I am still running on the original post, but in reality we have passed midnight.  Welcome to 2:15AM.

Week 2 is the Prospectus and Annotated Bibliography portion of Senior Thesis.  I took notes of the instructions and WON on three academic sources.  I need 5 total, including the original text.  I could hug my WR 323 instructor right now, because I have become a master of Google Scholar and our library’s online search engine.  

I leave this post with a picture of my stapler.  This little honey has the capacity of stapling 40 pages at once, and for someone who simply cannot read and retain electronically, this has been a great investment.  Oh, and all of the printer ink and paper I stocked up on last term.   #thecheeverfiles#studyblr#studyspo#LIT498#spring2016#ELNM#seniorthesis

Day 1:  Amazon Student Prime and Sunday delivery for the win.  My books came today! I never had a book for “A Country Husband”, all I ever had was a .pdf.  I will say, annotating on a copy is a lot easier than in a book.  So, I printed out another.  

The term just began a week ago, and for that first week we had to turn in an annotated page from two papers we have written during our academic career here at Marylhurst.  “Desireè’s Baby” by Chopin was my other choice, but I was sold on Cheever from the beginning. #thecheeverfiles#studyblr#studyspo#spring2016#LIT498#seniorthesis#ELNM 2 notes A Digital Accounting of my Adventures with my Senior Thesis. @midlife-stoodent here.  I am an English Literature and New Media major, and welcome to my Senior Thesis studyblr.  Check out my main blog for more studyblr goodness.

I decided to chronicle my path of the Senior Thesis to create a digital footprint of the process.  Obviously, my Thesis is on John Cheever, his short story “The Country Husband” to be exact.  I chose Cheever because his stories about the middle class intrigue me.  

So!  Lets get this started!  I will be following the usual #studyblr format. #thecheeverfiles#studyblr#studyspo#spring2016#LIT498#seniorthesis#ELNM 1 note