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There's a world of difference between searching for a piece of classical art/architecture and searching for a piece of medieval art/architecture, let me tell you.
When you search for a certain Gothic cathedral, you get people's blurry snapshots, postage-stamp-sized scanned images, pages that are locked to students of a certain university by their departmental webmasters, and little to no accompanying information. When you search for a certain Archaic kore, you get dozens of nice complete citations with nice, clear images that are made freely available to the public. When you search for a certain classical building, you get dozens of images from all possible angles and various useful drawings of the plan and reconstructions of the original building.
I believe I have chosen the wrong field.
I feel lousy. And lazy. Between the two, I've put off making my flash cards for my Parthenon midterm (in 28 and a third hours, now) until pretty much this very moment.
I hate slide exams. I'm not particularly good at them. I look forward to writing a paper instead in the second half of the semester.
When you search for a certain Gothic cathedral, you get people's blurry snapshots, postage-stamp-sized scanned images, pages that are locked to students of a certain university by their departmental webmasters, and little to no accompanying information. When you search for a certain Archaic kore, you get dozens of nice complete citations with nice, clear images that are made freely available to the public. When you search for a certain classical building, you get dozens of images from all possible angles and various useful drawings of the plan and reconstructions of the original building.
I believe I have chosen the wrong field.
I feel lousy. And lazy. Between the two, I've put off making my flash cards for my Parthenon midterm (in 28 and a third hours, now) until pretty much this very moment.
I hate slide exams. I'm not particularly good at them. I look forward to writing a paper instead in the second half of the semester.
