I am a dumbass
Well, turns out that I'm a month ahead in my philosophy class. And not in a good way.
We're reading about Socrates at the moment in both The Clouds by Aristophanes and Plato's work about Socrates, and one of those readings is Phaedo, an account by Plato of Socrates' last day. I knew that I was scheduled to do a presentation today on the reading for the weekend, so I checked our syllabus and went to Monday the 8th and saw the passage from Phaedo. So yesterday I read it, mark the important parts, and prep for my presentation today.
Well, turns out I did the wrong thing. Somehow I went to the wrong page of the syllabus and did the reading for March 8th, and coincidentally both February and March this year have a Monday that falls on the 8th. I should have been preparing the second part of The Clouds.
I started to think that something was up when I saw that one one else had brought their Phaedo this afternoon, and we eventually figured out what I'd done wrong. But it's not so bad, since because I had the book clearly marked with the passages I was going to reference and had my notes for the presentation I would have done he didn't make any marks against me, and in fact seemed to find the whole thing sort of funny. I'll just have to give this presentation a month from now.
Luckily enough I'd already read through The Clouds all the way and could participate in the discussion in class, but still, Me = Dumb.
(Seriously though, what are the odds that there would be two Monday the 8ths in a row?!)
We're reading about Socrates at the moment in both The Clouds by Aristophanes and Plato's work about Socrates, and one of those readings is Phaedo, an account by Plato of Socrates' last day. I knew that I was scheduled to do a presentation today on the reading for the weekend, so I checked our syllabus and went to Monday the 8th and saw the passage from Phaedo. So yesterday I read it, mark the important parts, and prep for my presentation today.
Well, turns out I did the wrong thing. Somehow I went to the wrong page of the syllabus and did the reading for March 8th, and coincidentally both February and March this year have a Monday that falls on the 8th. I should have been preparing the second part of The Clouds.
I started to think that something was up when I saw that one one else had brought their Phaedo this afternoon, and we eventually figured out what I'd done wrong. But it's not so bad, since because I had the book clearly marked with the passages I was going to reference and had my notes for the presentation I would have done he didn't make any marks against me, and in fact seemed to find the whole thing sort of funny. I'll just have to give this presentation a month from now.
Luckily enough I'd already read through The Clouds all the way and could participate in the discussion in class, but still, Me = Dumb.
(Seriously though, what are the odds that there would be two Monday the 8ths in a row?!)