Thesis: Roma and discrimination in education

Today I had my 1st meeting with Prof. Roubal, Petr, I dont know how but I am embarking upon a long journey, tedious and technically challenging. I forsee this already. So this semester instead of signing up for multiple course in Charles I decided to do independent study since in Stony Brook I would be doing something of the like anyways in spirit of the Senior Thesis Project. So that will be my academic life for this semester, also I want to take a film class. I think I will benefit more from this research, though it may be very concentrated and I really want to learn about other aspects of Czech and Central European politics, I suppose I can read on my own. Frankly , many classes were a joke.... not a complete waste of time but the professors went in their knowing these students are here to travel and study , more like a 70/30 ratio of Traveling/Partying to Studying, Hmm perhaps even more disparity of the two existed at times... hehe. SO this is my Project... I think the Narodni Knihovna is my new home away from home( away from home?) A baroque library that used to be a Jesuit university! Its beautiful in the general reading room. ( MAny cute people study here too, med students...)

Discertation- an ORIGINAL contribution to science

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My objective: the task is to create an intelligible thesis, via intellectual exercises of researching about the Roma, then strategically analyzing and summarizing. This will demonstrate by ability and potential for a future discertation.( If there ever is one to follow) So basically I need to improve my analytical skills...

Therefore the issue of originality is not significant here, since this is not Ph.D work- or even MA work for that matter. I dont want to classify it ...

The goal of my thesis, it will not be original and I certainly need not regurgitate previous research...What was worrying me was that my research was redundant but Petr clarified that originality is not the main objective here, but basically for me to ultimately prove via the final paper which is planned to be at first consisting of 5 shorter papers of 2,000 words each so ultimately the final thesis is roughly 15,000- words - I dont know how many pages that will be.

Now Im researching Roma History in Central Europe up until the Velvet Revolution ( 1989). An emphasis of Nazism, Holocaust, Roma experience under Communism, will be most relevant.

This Monday Czech Intensive begins... Advanced czech for 5 hours a day! goshHHh!