University Musings
You know, I think I'm going to opt out of any History courses that I can in college, unless I see reason to do otherwise. It's funny, cause I was the one ranting and raving about how history is important and how people should give a damn, but in the end what am I going to end up doing? Essays. College = essays, and there's no way to get around that.
And so I realise as I sit here not typing up my Nixon presidential profile for history class that I don't want to do this in college. In fact, a lot of my homework has started to take on this aspect. Maybe that's why I'm so ready to go to college in the first place.
Let's see, I don't want to revise my Theory of Knowledge essay for Tuesday because its question is so open ended and in the end, my answer doesn't really matter. Yeah, it made me think about the topic, but no I would not in any situation I can imagine want to do it again or go further into it. I am not interested in To what extent is faith a legitimate basis for knowledge claims, in religion and different Areas of Knowledge. Doesn't really ring my bell. The reason I chose that out of the other nine subject choised is that it was the one that flowed most easily. Ans still, I'm not at all really interested more than in passing.
I don't want to start and finish my first draft of my World Litt Paper II because I'm honestly not that interested in how Kafka used literary "figures de styles" (English please?) to emphasise his point in Up In the Gallery. The only reason I chose that particular type of writeup and that particular subject text was a) because a commentary is easier than a creative writing and is graded much more easily and predictably and they've grilled us in how to comment on a work for the past tow years anyways and b) because Up In the Gallery is a really, really short short story, and I do admit that I liked it because it was a compact, neat and elegant piece of writing.
I don't want to finish any of my three chemistry labs, one of which was due last wednesday and two of which are due tommorrow, because despite my love of chemistry, I really detest labs that are only going to tell me something that is going to be taught to me anyways and that is really boring. I'm not all that fascinated by the enthalpy of combustion of butane, or the molar ratio of water to copper sulphate in hydrated copper sulphate crystals. Look it up in a friggin data book, for crying out loud! Ok, yes, I need to know how labs are done, and how writeups are done if I ever end up in a lab etc etc, but PLEASE someone tell me college will be a little more interesting.
Do you like the work you do for your classes? No I don't expect to get assigned to jack off as homework, yes I will work on essays and apply myself, but is it possible to like the work you are doing and does it seem a little more interesting or engaging or whatever than high school work ever did?
Man, I should really stop procrastinating.
And so I realise as I sit here not typing up my Nixon presidential profile for history class that I don't want to do this in college. In fact, a lot of my homework has started to take on this aspect. Maybe that's why I'm so ready to go to college in the first place.
Let's see, I don't want to revise my Theory of Knowledge essay for Tuesday because its question is so open ended and in the end, my answer doesn't really matter. Yeah, it made me think about the topic, but no I would not in any situation I can imagine want to do it again or go further into it. I am not interested in To what extent is faith a legitimate basis for knowledge claims, in religion and different Areas of Knowledge. Doesn't really ring my bell. The reason I chose that out of the other nine subject choised is that it was the one that flowed most easily. Ans still, I'm not at all really interested more than in passing.
I don't want to start and finish my first draft of my World Litt Paper II because I'm honestly not that interested in how Kafka used literary "figures de styles" (English please?) to emphasise his point in Up In the Gallery. The only reason I chose that particular type of writeup and that particular subject text was a) because a commentary is easier than a creative writing and is graded much more easily and predictably and they've grilled us in how to comment on a work for the past tow years anyways and b) because Up In the Gallery is a really, really short short story, and I do admit that I liked it because it was a compact, neat and elegant piece of writing.
I don't want to finish any of my three chemistry labs, one of which was due last wednesday and two of which are due tommorrow, because despite my love of chemistry, I really detest labs that are only going to tell me something that is going to be taught to me anyways and that is really boring. I'm not all that fascinated by the enthalpy of combustion of butane, or the molar ratio of water to copper sulphate in hydrated copper sulphate crystals. Look it up in a friggin data book, for crying out loud! Ok, yes, I need to know how labs are done, and how writeups are done if I ever end up in a lab etc etc, but PLEASE someone tell me college will be a little more interesting.
Do you like the work you do for your classes? No I don't expect to get assigned to jack off as homework, yes I will work on essays and apply myself, but is it possible to like the work you are doing and does it seem a little more interesting or engaging or whatever than high school work ever did?
Man, I should really stop procrastinating.