>My advisor
>will be required to make the case for me by proxy at a sort of
>departmental star chamber next Monday.

The news has reached me this evening that the request was in fact approved, though it's contingent on the outcome of the course I'm currently taking; the work undertaken before it was deemed insufficient by itself. So I still have to do this fershluginer final project, but at least I don't have to spend the summer hurriedly trying to learn French or something.

--G.
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