Well friends, I have officially handed in the last paper of my undergraduate career. In classic academic asshole fashion, I managed to devise yet another scheme to avoid writing yet another paper, instead transforming the project into an (easily bullshittable) experimental art piece. (For another example of this type of work, I refer you to last year’s set of mixed media collages about Hildegard of Bingen, medieval nun, on which I got an A+.) This time, it was for The Dullest Class I’ve Ever Had to Take. Instead of writing a paper, I made a labyrinth. Yes, a labyrinth. Don’t even ask. Just go with it, and understand that it is a marvelous (read: very weird) thing.
At this point, I would like to acknowledge my debt to Mademoiselle Aimée Goulagée, that pioneer of French Kristevan Avant-Garde cinema, whose revolutionary experimental film Mon vagin à mangé mon chapeau: Un labyrinthe féministe, was hugely influential to my development of this project. Thank you, Aimée, for helping me create what is undoubtedly some of the most important academic work of our generation.
This is so not fair. (from the person who has yet to start writing her 4th year thesis…)
But hey, I got a SSHRC!!!!!
I am curious about this project. Sounds interesting.
Hurrah! Congrats about SSHRC! That’s so exciting!
I also got a SSHRC (yay!) but I have to refuse it (boo!) because you have to attend a Canadian University to hold the award. Sigh.
I ALSO got an SSHRC but I couldn’t accept it because, well, it’s a complicated story really, but I was on the way to picking up my governor general’s award which I ALSO got but there was a sasquatch… and possums, and then the blood damage made it hard for me to pick up the SSHRC cheque and also I forgot to do well in school or apply for grad school
Are you making fun of me? I get this funny feeling that you’re making fun of me.
Well, at least one of our lives hasn’t been grotesquely disfigured by attending a post-secondary institution (again, much thanks goes out to our fa-fa-families). I guess I could always get into waste management.
On the non-bitter side, the experimental art-piece sounds cool, if it has to do with what I think it does (ie. the David Bowie flick of the same name) …
Do you still have those Hildegard collages????
I love Hildegard.