Incessant Expressions

I’ve just finished up a rough/not-so-rough draft of my mid-term for ANT4930-009 Anthropology of Islam. All I can say is that Professor Keshodkar certainly made us write a fairly daunting paper in just one week when we had a considerably less intense ethnographic paper due just two weeks ago. I really wish he would have switched the two around as our mid-term paper definitely divulges into topics that need more than a week’s worth of research and writing whereas the past ethnography based on Geertz’s work in Morocco and Indonesia did not need 4 weeks of research to write. It could have easily encompassed a week for the mid-term as most of the class did the paper in a few days, those extra 3 weeks were essentially wasted in retrospect. But this mid-term was too heavy for 7 days, far too heavy.

Well, at least it’s done until I can look it over with fresh eyes in the morning and make necessary revisions, especially since I have a hanging sentence at the end! Argh!

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