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I went to my Greek prof's office hours today to ask for some help on doing research, which she was enormously helpful with. And then I ended up sort of fretting at her about my fears regarding graduate school: namely, that I might not be able to get into the program I want, on account of having taken so many undergrad classes (though not all!) in the same department.

She kindly agree that those were valid fears and it would definitely reduce my chances.

I really do admire my Greek prof: she's sympathetic and helpful, and that keeps her absolute honesty about these things from being brutal. Sometimes I'd like a rather more gently nurturing approach, but...false hope and false expectations don't help anyone, eh?

On the way out of class this afternoon, she was speaking with another classmate about graduate school in general. The question was, how many lines should I expect to be doing in graduate school, compared to now? And there was some waffling back and forth on the number of lines, but a fairly clear answer overall of, "In graduate school you should expect to spend about 50-60 hours a week in classes and related work."

I am so doomed.

So, speaking of doom! Have some more Electra-and-friends.

( Look! A chorus! )

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And now, Cicero! Exciting Cicero! This is where he makes a poor argument of probability, defends Caelius against the accusation of being (gasp! shock!) in debt, and quotes from a play we no longer have.

There are footnotes provided.

( You would not believe how long it took me to get through Chapter 18, here. )

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And now I have to decide what to do next, because the prof asked us to just read chapters 19-23, and not prepare them for class or study them. Which means... I should do exactly that! Especially since I need to have chapters 24-26 translated for Friday, and I have a lot of Greek to study in between these points.

But it pains me to just glance at Latin and not translate it. Even if it is, as she claims, a rather boring and unimportant part of the speech.

Maybe I can do it over the weekend.