I am starting to panic...
2007-02-28 06:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rodobecause tomorrow I will have another big bad Japanese exam (this time about history), and I just don't know what to do. I did not learn that much during the last days, but that was probably a good idea because if I had, I would have started to panic much earlier.
I chose three topics: The integrated yet decentralized state system of the Tokugawa era (she did not even bother to translate that to German), Bunmei-Kaika (Meiji era) and Taishô democracy (1910s and 20s). I read about three and a half books about said time periods, I don't have the feeling that I don't know a thing, but I have to talk about one of them for fifteen minutes and the most important thing is the structure. But I don't know if I got that right (I made up my own). Plus I don't really know what I should say about Bunmei-Kaika. I was looking for a definition yesterday in the library, but Steve was kind enough to tell me that the books I wanted to look it up in mysteriously vanished during the move last summer. He also wanted to show me some other helpful books, but we did not find any. They organized it according to the number on the back, which means you might find a Thai textbook between Chinese textbooks in the Japanese part of the library. We did find the editions from 1936 to 1937 of the magazine Neues Volk, though, and French books about anthropology from 1900 to 1906.
So anyway, I hope I will survive it. The last time I had an exam with Professor Richter I started to cry. I guess it can't get much worse. But then again, another teacher is going to question me as well and I hate her since I failed in a homework and she did not tell me. I mean, she wrote "First think, then write" underneath it. Very helpful comment, really.
Edit: My Professor just send me an e-mail: "Where are your topics for the exam tomorrow?"
Now I am totally freaked and near a nervous breakdown. Hopefully she does not expect me to answer in a totally polite way that, sorry, but it's her fault if she lost them. I mean, I watched her typing them in her computer.
I chose three topics: The integrated yet decentralized state system of the Tokugawa era (she did not even bother to translate that to German), Bunmei-Kaika (Meiji era) and Taishô democracy (1910s and 20s). I read about three and a half books about said time periods, I don't have the feeling that I don't know a thing, but I have to talk about one of them for fifteen minutes and the most important thing is the structure. But I don't know if I got that right (I made up my own). Plus I don't really know what I should say about Bunmei-Kaika. I was looking for a definition yesterday in the library, but Steve was kind enough to tell me that the books I wanted to look it up in mysteriously vanished during the move last summer. He also wanted to show me some other helpful books, but we did not find any. They organized it according to the number on the back, which means you might find a Thai textbook between Chinese textbooks in the Japanese part of the library. We did find the editions from 1936 to 1937 of the magazine Neues Volk, though, and French books about anthropology from 1900 to 1906.
So anyway, I hope I will survive it. The last time I had an exam with Professor Richter I started to cry. I guess it can't get much worse. But then again, another teacher is going to question me as well and I hate her since I failed in a homework and she did not tell me. I mean, she wrote "First think, then write" underneath it. Very helpful comment, really.
Edit: My Professor just send me an e-mail: "Where are your topics for the exam tomorrow?"
Now I am totally freaked and near a nervous breakdown. Hopefully she does not expect me to answer in a totally polite way that, sorry, but it's her fault if she lost them. I mean, I watched her typing them in her computer.
