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Certainly, here's the organized version of the provided conversation:

**Student's Inquiry about Graduate Level Class - Professor Allison's Response**

**Student:** Excuse me, Professor Allison?

**Professor:** Yes, that's right. How can I help you?

**Student:** My name's Pete Peter Druitt, and I'm taking Professor Syed's world history class. He
mentioned that you have a class next semester on the same topic and I wanted to ask you about
it.

**Professor:** You're right that I'm teaching a World History class next semester, but I'm not sure
it's worth discussing. I don't mean to sound negative, but if you're in Professor Syed's World
History 203 class this semester, you'd have no reason to take my class next semester. The two of
us have different teaching styles, of course, but both classes are World History 203, so the content
of his class and my class would be the same.

**Student:** Sorry, I didn't explain very clearly. I wanted to ask about your graduate level class in
World History, not World History 203.

**Professor:** Well, that makes more sense in one respect. But I still want to clear one thing up. If
you're in World History 203, I'm guessing you're an undergraduate, and as you know,
undergraduates are not generally permitted to take grad level classes.

**Student's Inquiry about Reading List - Professor's Response**

**Student:** Actually, I just wanted to talk to you about the reading list for your class. You see,
Professor Syed lets us choose our own topic for his end of semester assignment. I came up with an
interesting topic and started researching it, but I couldn't find many books or articles with useful
information. When I mentioned this to him, professor said my topic was something you cover in
your class. I was hoping to see your reading list to do more focused research. Would that be
possible?

**Professor:** Oh, okay. I understand the situation now, I'd be happy to give you the reading list.
There's a couple of things, though. First, I had a problem with my computer yesterday and
apparently it needs a new disk drive. The IT department is handling it, but apparently they've got a
backlog of problems to sort out. Can I email you the list when my computer is up and running?

**Student:** Oh, absolutely. My assignment is not due until the end of the semester, so there's
plenty of time. If you're okay, I'll send you an email later and you can just reply and attach the list
when you get a chance.
**Professor:** Great. Now, the second issue is that since it's for a grad level class, some of the
books on the reading list are reserved for grad students. As I understand it, you can use those
books in the library, but not borrow them.

**Student:** That's fine. My friends like studying in coffee shops or at home, but I generally find
those environments distracting. So I'm fine to do the reading in the library.

**Professor:** Well, then that's fine. I'll send you the list as soon as I can, Peter. Thanks,
professor.

**Questions:**

- **Question one:** Why does the student go to see his professor?

- **Question two:** What is the professor initially confused about?

- **Question three:** Listen again to part of the conversation. What does the professor imply
when she says this? "Well, that makes more sense in one respect. But I still want to clear one thing
up. If you're in World History 203, I'm guessing you're an undergraduate. And as you know,
undergraduates are not generally permitted to take grad level classes."

- **Question four:** Listen again to part of the conversation. What does the professor imply when
she says this? "First, I had a problem with my computer yesterday and apparently it needs a new
disk drive. The IT department is handling it, but apparently they've got a backlog of problems to
sort out. Can I email you the list when my computer is up and running?"

- **Question five:** What point does the student make about his study habits?

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