The task of graduate school…
…taking an unfinished product, and making it look finished. As said to me this morning by a friend, who says it’s her boyfriend’s (hafl-joking) mantra (he just finished a Ph.D. in philosphy). Such is my task for orals–not some “finished” perfect mastery of the material, but the best I can do with what I have. Making all the reading and synthesizing I’ve done look “finished” when I open my mouth to answer questions on Wednesday.