Uh Oh...

Just met with Caroline Erb, the "writing fellow" for the media department. I set up a meeting with her last week, giving her an entire week to look through my paper but as usual at Hunter, any type of student services sucks. I got to her office and had to wait a good twenty minutes for her to finish the last like 10 pages of my paper and am pretty nervous about what she said when she finished reading it. There was a lot of "ummm.." and bla bla trying to be gentle type rhetoric. Shes not a film/horror person whatsoever, so she had no clue about the movies I talk about in my thesis or the political significance. She basically told me that I don't have a strong enough connection with my movies and my thesis and that I do too much describing of scenes. This is kind of funny because Pinedo told me to flesh out my scene analysis... at the end of our meeting she started saying things like, "Well I don't think shes going to fail you... if she said it was okay then it must be fine." At this point I'm thinking...ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! This is a 25 page paper that I've been working on the whole semester! I'm starting to freak out about this a little bit now, as I still plan on using this paper as a writing sample for grad school. Obviously something is missing in my paper if shes having trouble connecting my thesis throughout the paper. I'm now waiting outside of Pinedo's office in a panic to speak to her about this whole situation. I don't know if I should blow off what this lady is saying and stick with what Pinedo has told me or take the critique to heart. Last semester for my horror class I met with her in regard to my term paper on Irreversible because it was mandatory and did not take any of her advice at all and still got an A. I don't exactly understand why someone who isn't a film person is attempting to help film/media students. Seems kind of dumb. If you don't know what you're talking about you probably shouldn't be advising students on things that are important!

UGHHH!

Edits, edits, edits

So at this point I’m basically wrapping up my thesis. Sent final draft to Caroline Erb, the writing fellow at Hunter, for some feedback and comments. I’m horrible with grammar so I’m sure theres a ton of spelling errors that I missed while editing the final draft. I’m still trying to track down a book for my cult of individualism reference, but I plan to scurry for that today during my break. I’m also having a hard time finding last minute quotes for my paper. A lot of people claim that these movies of the New French Extremity “go too far,” but unfortunately I’m having trouble finding a quote of someone legit actually saying that. Most of the IMDB user comments don’t actually say that, but just talk about how bloody and gross the movies are, which is I guess in some ways saying goes too far, but I want something better. There’s only so many crappy articles one can read before everything gets fuzzy. Excited to be wrapping this up though, the semester is almost over and that went by way too fast. All I really have left to do is find a few good quotes and add screen grabs and then finito. If anyone comes across anything please let me know.

P.S. The guy sitting next to me on the train won’t stop farting. How rude right? A train is a contained vehicle! Do that stuff before getting on the train!

P.S.S. Going to miss this  class when it ends in a few weeks, our little round table discussions keep school exciting and I met a lot of nice, interesting people here.