Tales from the PoliSci
Despite not having spoken a word, I nearly got in trouble for talking during PoliSci (along with some others who had in fact been talking). Considering how I felt about yesterday, that was bordering on pushing me over the edge. I figured "All right, that's it, I'll just drop this class and not have to come with the awkward anymore."
So I wasn't planning to talk at all in any way/shape/form for the rest of the class, until we got to Humanism/Age of Reason and Godwin came up. Mr. Blair (my instructor) mentions "And Godwin was married to a woman named Mary Wollstonecraft. Anyone heard of Mary Wollstonecraft?" And I nod, and he looks at me and askes who she was. So I answer that she was an early English feminist writer who promoted the enfranchisment of women and revert to silence again until he asks if anyone knows who their daughter Mary married. (Percy Bysshe Shelley, who has one of the coolest middle names ever when you study English poets in a Religious school. ;D)
And so, after taking the quiz which I don't think I bombed, I turn in my scantron and Mr. Blair beckons me over to where he's standing, which immediately gives me the "Oh crap I'm gonna get in trouble" gut reaction. Instead, I get "I'm really impressed you know Wollstonecraft. Most of the students I've had in this class have never heard of her."
We ended up talking for a minute about that, and i told him how interesting it's been to read Sibley Telhami's The Stakes and the same time that I've been readiong about the French Revolution and the ideologies behind it. He thought that sounded interesting indeed and suggested that I should consider writing an extra credit essay looking at the two.
Maybe I'm not in as much trouble in that class as I thought.
So I wasn't planning to talk at all in any way/shape/form for the rest of the class, until we got to Humanism/Age of Reason and Godwin came up. Mr. Blair (my instructor) mentions "And Godwin was married to a woman named Mary Wollstonecraft. Anyone heard of Mary Wollstonecraft?" And I nod, and he looks at me and askes who she was. So I answer that she was an early English feminist writer who promoted the enfranchisment of women and revert to silence again until he asks if anyone knows who their daughter Mary married. (Percy Bysshe Shelley, who has one of the coolest middle names ever when you study English poets in a Religious school. ;D)
And so, after taking the quiz which I don't think I bombed, I turn in my scantron and Mr. Blair beckons me over to where he's standing, which immediately gives me the "Oh crap I'm gonna get in trouble" gut reaction. Instead, I get "I'm really impressed you know Wollstonecraft. Most of the students I've had in this class have never heard of her."
We ended up talking for a minute about that, and i told him how interesting it's been to read Sibley Telhami's The Stakes and the same time that I've been readiong about the French Revolution and the ideologies behind it. He thought that sounded interesting indeed and suggested that I should consider writing an extra credit essay looking at the two.
Maybe I'm not in as much trouble in that class as I thought.