Reading Lolita in Vegas

When I go over my notes from "Reading Lolita in Tehran", and think about writing a research paper about it, I get a feeling of anxiety, partly because of the sensitive subject. This book is a look into a facet of the human struggle I am not familiar with. I knew that this was going on in Tehran, but this book gives a much more personal account. As a psychology major, I am intrigued by how they used books to cope. I hope to be able to capture this in my research paper. 

I am doing my research paper on the illusion created by Gatsby and the women in Reading Lolita in Tehran. Gatsby was actually a great book. It had drinking, smoking, partying, and sex, all the things that make for a great reality show. For some reason The Great Gatsby reminds me of the Jersey Shore. Fitzgerald never really shows them doing anything other than hanging out. It was pretty easy reading, it took me about 2 days.

I recently came up with an idea that would kill two birds with one stone. I have a 10-page paper due at the end of the semester for my Psychology 201 class. I decided to do it on depression and how people cope with it, so some of my source can be incorporated into my Reading Lolita in Tehran paper. I first thought, well they never actually say they are depressed, but there is an overall feeling of depression though it is unspoken.

Does anyone else have to give themselves peep talks throughout the day? I just keep telling myself in two more weeks it will be all over, and bribing myself with a Vegas trip after the semester. This has by far been the most challenging semester of my college experience. I chose the worse possible combination of classes. I have Statistics, and it is not the class where the professor writes the formulas on the board during the test. I also have Psychology 201 class, which is more like biology without the lab, my favorite part. And I have a black and white photo class, which I thought was going to be easy, ha.

I fear doing this paper wrong. On my first essay, I did not do it correctly at all. I wrote about the subject and did not focus on critique and analyzing the article.  Then on my synthesis paper, I did not include enough sources, on me second draft and my header font was not the same as the rest of my essay. I think I did better on my timed essay than I did on these that took me days to write. This paper has to be perfect, not great, but done perfectly.

I am going to let all the slackers, like myself, know that the five sources does not include Reading Lolita in Tehran or the other book you choose(if you are doing option 1). I already emailed Jennifer to clear that up.

In conclusion, we all have been here before. We can see the finish line, let’s make these two last weeks productive and mistake free. Then we’re going to Vegas.