Reorientation

I need to rethink my study process and reformulate my idea of this exam. It's to be a short exam (scheduled for mid July), 90 minutes total but 20 reserved for deliberation, so I'll be talking with each examiner for only 35 minutes! They'll both be testing me on connections and trends and patterns and themes; as the graduate coordinator of my MA lit program put it, I'll not be called upon to provide an exegesis of any one text. It's really the shape of each field I need to have a sense of, and the ways my texts relate to each other and fit into the whole.

This isn't to say I needn't know each text well. In terms of writing up my impressions though I should go back to my original idea of a freewrite a day. I don't quite know why I switched to blogging each text instead, and in the labored way I was doing it! Freewriting was more efficient and, I'm sure going forward, will be more effective.

Provisional plan: freewrite by one pm, read for twelve pomodoros, go to sleep, get up, rinse, repeat. We'll see how this goes--stay tuned!