Well, I will be tomorrow anyway. I somehow managed to survive the spring semester and pulled off two A’s. I’m all set to begin researching my thesis this summer, and graduate on time next spring.
But my week and a half off between the spring semester and summer session has flown by and my Old Regime and the French Revolution class begins tomorrow. We meet twice a week for 3 hours and 15 minutes for 7 weeks.
I don’t know anything about the French Revolution. It involved the guillotine and didn’t work out so well for Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. I thought I would get a head start on reading for the class, but haven’t even finished the first book. I think I can finish the last 60 pages before class starts tomorrow, but that won’t put me but so far ahead. I just hope we don’t end the session with a 20 page paper. I fell apart at the end of my 20 page Fascisms paper (resulting in an A-) and I really don’t want to write another long paper so soon.
I should have done some background reading and tried to pick up the main points of the Revolution. A week and a half does not allow adequate time to recover and get a head start on the next class. So this will have to suffice.
