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So, now that I have a free afternoon I've been doing more study-abroad running around... I'm going to keep chattering about this until my application is sent and the decision comes back, because it's not at all certain that I'll be allowed to go. I don't have the requisite number of French courses, but I'm fairly sure I can count on glowing recommendations from two professors and my academic advisor. There's a committee that decides on admissions to the Paris program and I've talked to two of the three people on it; the head of the committee (who will be directing the program when I'm there and has extra clout) is all for it and told me he'd push for my admission if necessary. And that made me happy until I went to see last year's director (also on the committee) and sat there getting tutoyée for ten minutes as she told me she Couldn't Make Any Promises and This Is Very Irregular and You Might Not Be Able to Take Computer Science Courses There and the upshot is that her opinion will depend on how I do in the Year 1830 class. Or rather what the professor of that class tells her about me.

Thankfully, nobody told me my admission depends on taking two French classes this semester, so I'm dropping Medieval and Renaissance France. (Well, sort of--Very Dubious Lady "understands that it might be too much work to stay in both, but if you drop it we'll only have one class to evaluate you on and I won't be able to promise you anything," which is probably the closest I'll get to an admission that it's not essential to take both.)

I also finally found a course catalog for Université de Paris VI's computer science department, though not a list of what will be offered in the fall. But that's something I'll be talking over with the study-abroad advisor in the computer science department on Thursday. (Augh, so many people to talk to!)

Parisparisparis

So, now that I have a free afternoon I've been doing more study-abroad running around... I'm going to keep chattering about this until my application is sent and the decision comes back, because it's not at all certain that I'll be allowed to go. I don't have the requisite number of French courses, but I'm fairly sure I can count on glowing recommendations from two professors and my academic advisor. There's a committee that decides on admissions to the Paris program and I've talked to two of the three people on it; the head of the committee (who will be directing the program when I'm there and has extra clout) is all for it and told me he'd push for my admission if necessary. And that made me happy until I went to see last year's director (also on the committee) and sat there getting tutoyée for ten minutes as she told me she Couldn't Make Any Promises and This Is Very Irregular and You Might Not Be Able to Take Computer Science Courses There and the upshot is that her opinion will depend on how I do in the Year 1830 class. Or rather what the professor of that class tells her about me.

Thankfully, nobody told me my admission depends on taking two French classes this semester, so I'm dropping Medieval and Renaissance France. (Well, sort of--Very Dubious Lady "understands that it might be too much work to stay in both, but if you drop it we'll only have one class to evaluate you on and I won't be able to promise you anything," which is probably the closest I'll get to an admission that it's not essential to take both.)

I also finally found a course catalog for Université de Paris VI's computer science department, though not a list of what will be offered in the fall. But that's something I'll be talking over with the study-abroad advisor in the computer science department on Thursday. (Augh, so many people to talk to!)