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titiritero83

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  1. I don't think there's anything wrong with applying for a job while you're still in school. In fact, it's a very sensible route to take given the current state of affairs. At the very least, you're gaining some experience in understanding what potential employers are looking for and how the process works. The best case scenario is getting the job; figuring out how to balance work and school is a good problem to have. If this job is a good fit, then it really doesn't matter if it delays your degree.
  2. StrangeLight: there's no need for rudeness. And it seems a little strange for a criticism of another's writing to be so badly plagued by poor punctuation. As regards jealousy and the unpleasantries it spawns, my experiences have taught me to ignore it completely. Throughout graduate school I had a nemesis colleague in my department who took every available opportunity to criticize my ideas and talk poorly of me to my peers and professors. One of my friend's attended a workshop on turning a seminar paper into a publishable essay. During the meeting, my friend mentioned that I had been published in a specific journal, at which point my nemesis felt the need to suggest that I had stolen the ideas for the paper from someone else. Amazingly, she had been a student in the seminar when I wrote the first version of the paper and had heard me give a presentation about it! The fact of the matter is that some people feel a deep sense of insecurity and choose to lash out as others as a means of dissipating that feeling. Whether it's childish, sociopathic, or just plain silly is beside the point. You will never win an argument with another person's irrationality. The best option for you is to preserve your reputation as a collegial scholar, and that usually means avoiding confrontation with provocateurs.
  3. Hi Amo305! You may have made up your mind by now, but my sense is that you would be able to explore your interests fully in a Spanish & Portuguese Department. In my experience, there is a bit more flexibility in selecting a dissertation topic when working from a department that focuses on a specific language. That may seem strange, but let me elaborate. Often, comp lit departments require dissertation topics to cover at least 2 or 3 distinct literary traditions in order to qualify as comp lit. On the other hand, most Spanish & Portuguese departments allow students to write about a subject as specific as a single poem or as broad as a comparative study of detective fiction in, say, the Spanish- and French-speaking worlds. Unless you're having reservations about working in Spanish, I'd say that's the best bet.
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