Rant rant rant
This is a quick rant before I have to go to another boring ass lecture. Just had 3 hours of 18th century literature and it's so damn boring! It's taught in the most uninspiring way, you wouldn't believe! In the seminar this girl was giving her presentation and all it was was a recap of the stuff we had read! She gave a few interpretations, one of which I thought was really wrong, and the seminar leader said it was good! She praised this girl for comparing two poems. But I mean, we all had to read the damn things and of course we're supposed to think about them while we read, so it's not like she did anything I hadn't! I hate when people's presentations are just a synopsis of the reading. I'm not an idiot, I can read, I don't need you to just re-tell me what I read! It drives me crazy! Hannah had to do a presentation too, and her's was good, there were interpretations, it wasn't just this is what happened and then this. But the seminar leader hates Han, and didn't give her any word of encouragement or anything. Han said that when she had this woman before she used to dismiss most of what Hannah said. It's so bloody stupid because Han wasn't just being like everyone else!
God I hate my degree. It's full of idiots who somehow get better grades than me, just because they know how to jump through the hoops, or because the always send loads of drafts to the professors to check and recheck. I *never* send drafts. I don't write drafts, for one thing and for another I don't want the professor to just be telling me what to say. What's the point? You aren't learning to think or anything, you are just learning to regurgitate! And we all know how to do that!
Fuck. I've just wasted the past 3 years and I'm going to waste the next year, doing something I hate. I hate criticism. Well, not all but I hate literary criticism, because you can basically make up anything, find the evidence that seems to support it and claim it's true! Especially if the author is dead, or there is nothing they wrote that says explicitly what they meant to say! It's so bloody stupid!
The vast majority of English professors here are shit. I wonder if it's like at Oxford, where once you are on staff, it's pretty damn hard to get rid of someone. But seriously, there's no need for them to all be so god damn dull! They are so stuck in their own little preferences too, with their own opinions and if you don't share those opinions you might as well shut the fuck up! And now I have to go to another lecture, with another man who's just like all the others. His lectures are sometimes interesting, but not really for the reason he thinks, but because I find his tangents and jokes to be hilarious because they are so bad!
And there's nothing I can do about it because all the other options are equally shit and annoying. All I can do is grit my teeth in the boring seminars as people either don't speak and we sit in silence for 2 hours, or they do speak but say the most idiotic shit that it makes me want to cry. Fuck