Remedial Egyptology
So I talked to my college's career services people about grad schools. I really really want to go to Toronto, but I just don't have the qualifications for the program I want. So M. called their graduate admissions counselor to ask about admissions as a special student, so I can take some undergraduate-level courses to put me on a level footing with the other candidates. She said she'd like to see my transcript, so she can decide whether I could do that or not.
Now I'm just shaking with nerves. I mean, this is the last-ditch option for people who don't have the qualifications for the program. And what if I'm not even qualified for that? I don't know if I could deal being rejected from remedial MA Egyptology. Especially not at the school I want to go to more than anything.
I really feel a little overwhelmed right now. I tried to make an appointment at Parkview, but they're not taking appointments until classes begin, unless I'm "in crisis", which I'm not. Yet.
There is no reason to be nervous about this. I'm really making too much of this. I'm just upset because I feel like suddenly I've ruled out all the other options. I wanted to get into the program and not have to spend my own money on extra year(s) of interim schooling before I enter.
But I know I have academic deficiencies to fill in before I can be competitive in this field. These aren't my fault, except in that I didn't plan to be an ancient history or Egyptology major when I entered college. I am a good student, for all of my slacker-chic. I'm smart, I'm a good writer, I can do research, and I can teach myself. I'm a lazy-ass sometimes, but I get things done anyway, and with aplomb-- nothing improves my writing like a looming deadline.
So, here's what I'll do. I'll ask M. if Anna is expecting my transcript faxed immediately, or if I have time. If I have time, I'll finish the ISP and get them to at least put work all done/evaluation pending on the ISP and tutorial. First I'll finish the ISP however.
I don't know what they'll want of me to be admitted as a special student. When I graduate I'll have the following applicable courses: Survey of Archaeology, human origins and evolution, Greek elementary and intermediate, Latin elementary, a semester of very basic conversational German, basic reading competence in French, myth and ritual, old world prehistory, cultural anthropology, archaeological method and theory, history of anthropological theory, people and culture of the middle east, love and sex in the ancient world, language culture and society, and possibly a tutorial on indo-european languages. I'll also have my month-long ISP in Egyptian and Greek funerary art. More than half of this I have yet to take or finish.
What I have yet to take is Egyptian language, any courses at all specifically dealing with Egyptian history, or ancient civilizations generally, or the ancient near east.
Hell, I might as well take a second BA.
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