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Dear M,

Thanks for the heads-up.

By the way, the diss[ertation] instructions on the registrar's website emphasize the 350 word limitation.  Any excess will be chopped off mid-sentence.   But the instructions don't indicate whether this limitation includes or excludes the introductory info (title, name of institution, name of author).

In my case, the abstract text is just under 350, but with the other stuff counted, it exceeds 350.  Of course I could delete a sentence.  But you may recall that in the film Amadeus, Mozart responded to criticism from the official court composer that he used "too many notes" by asserting that that he used neither too few nor too many, but just the right number.  That's how I feel about my abstract text.

Could you please check and let me know? 

I told M that if I ever get to sounding that way she has my permission to shoot me in the back and laugh heartily over my bleeding, bloody corpse. Or not so much. But still, it makes me glad I'm getting out with a MA, rather than getting sucked in to the horror that is being a doctoral student.