It's viciously cold right now in NYC. Weather.com has it as being -9℃, -19 with the windchill, and I can believe it. It's like Dave Fusco said - "We have a program for dealing with the homeless in New York. We call it "winter"."
I'm probably going to hell for even repeating that comment. Still, I think that's the coldest temperature I've ever been out in, even in Hokkaido and the like.
About Me
- Rob T
- I'm tall, incredibly handsome, tanned, muscular, fantastically wealthy, enjoy long walks, talking about my feelings and lying about myself on the internet.
On the truth side of things, I'm a PhD student at Columbia University in New York, studying modern Japanese literature.
Some time next decade, I'll be Dr. Rob T...
2 comments:
congrats on your PhD course acceptance. how come you only have to go through 1 year on your master ?
Good question.
You're right, it's normally a two year course, but the actual requirements to graduate are 6 "content" courses (ie not language), a 40-60 page MA thesis and 4 years of language or the equivalent.
The first two can be packed into two semesters and a summer if you work your butt off like I did. The normal reason for people taking two years is to get their Japanese level up - particularly if they've come straight from US undergrad, which means they'll have around 3 years of language, though of course standards vary. In my case I had 8 yrs of Japanese and JLPT 1 under my belt anyway, so that's not an issue.
I was always told from the start that the staff here thought I could and should do it in 1 year - and in any case, I haven't got the money to do a 2nd year, so it was kind of forced upon me...
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