I'm pretty sure it's a UC thing -- UCLA has the same or very similar paragraph as part of their personal statement prompt (which I'm figuring I will ignore, because it doesn't really apply to my application). But Berkeley makes you do it separately...
The Latin Paper I Won't Actually Be Writing would have been on "literary" elements in the interpolated stories in Petronius: specifically, do lower-class characters who are practiced story tellers have different patterns of clausula from lower-class characters who are just talking, and how do they compare to the speech/stories of more educated characters?
But the professor then announced that all of our topics were crummy, and he was just giving an exam, and then he changed his mind and gave us a choice five days later, but I had already not worked on my paper, so I'm doing the exam and hoping it doesn't screw up the letter I want him to write for me.
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The Latin Paper I Won't Actually Be Writing would have been on "literary" elements in the interpolated stories in Petronius: specifically, do lower-class characters who are practiced story tellers have different patterns of clausula from lower-class characters who are just talking, and how do they compare to the speech/stories of more educated characters?
But the professor then announced that all of our topics were crummy, and he was just giving an exam, and then he changed his mind and gave us a choice five days later, but I had already not worked on my paper, so I'm doing the exam and hoping it doesn't screw up the letter I want him to write for me.