
I handed in my midterm for the Paul's Letters class today. It was a midterm of 2 essays, one 2-2.5 pages and the other no more than 2 pages. I worked on the second question first, from 4pm to 10:30pm last night. I was supposed to wake up early to work on today's but unfortunately it took me a while to get up. I got to the library around 9:15am and worked until noon, when the exam was due (via online submission). I didn't really have time to edit the first question.
Looking at it now, I've found 2 major errors and 2 minor errors. The minor ones are missing periods. The major ones are 1. leaving a page number blank because I didn't have time to look up the quote and 2. Not finishing a sentence "Horsley believes this chapter was about politics rather than ...religion." Or something along those lines.
And my TF specifically said he'd be annoyed if he started finding spelling or grammatical errors and that we were supposed to proofread. But I don't know what else I could have done given my time constraints. I suppose I could have forgone sleep, but then I wouldn't have been coherent today.
Hopefully my second essay will redeem my first. It's a few lines longer than the page limit, but I shortened it as much as I could. Everything I have in there is necessary for my argument. So thus I couldn't do anything about that either.
I feel like a bit of a failure, but at least it's over with now. Unfortunately, I still have a 7-10 page paper due Tuesday and a midterm. (And a German midterm on Monday but I'm not even going there yet...) The midterm shouldn't require too much studying, and we get to write "non-essays," using bullet points/outlining to get out our arguments as opposed to turning these into complete sentences. "Life is too short to have to grade essay exams!" Prof. Cohen may now be my favorite person in the world.
And soon it will be Shabbat. I don't have much time left to clean and stuff, but I'm going to have to do it anyways, since I might have someone staying in my room while I'm at Harvard for the night.