Oh, university...
you're making it hard to keep up my enthusiasm for you.
*sigh*
There are fifteen seminars being offered this semester in American studies.
Five of them take place on Tuesday between four and six p.m.
These also happen to be the only ones that are 1.) interesting, 2.) fit into my plans of what I want to do in my last couple of terms of uni (and possibly in my thesis), 3.) didn't require signing up months in advance, and 4.) that I haven't already taken earlier.
So, I can only take *one* interesting seminar this term. Which means I need to fill the rest of my required classes with a) stuff that bores me to death (19th century stuff; the rise of unitarianism; art criticism; objectivism in American poetry) or b) stuff I've already done.
This is not only annoying because I'll be forced to waste time I could have spent learning something interesting learning about stuff I'm not interested in instead; it's also highly inconvenient because I'm still not sure what I'm going to write my thesis about, and was hoping that some seminar would give me an idea. Seminars on objectivism in poetry are unlikely to do that, as I'm interested neither in objectivism nor in poetry. Nor am I willing to write my thesis about the 19th century, one of my least favourite periods in history, and art criticism isn't something I can see myself getting interested in, either. American religions, on the other hand *are* kind of interesting, but that particular seminar is the third in a series, and I didn't take the first two, so I'd be missing the foundations.
They probably put all the interesting seminars on the same day and time because they guessed that those would be the most popular, and they wanted to force students to take only one of the interesting/popular ones and then take some of the boring/redundant/ridiculously-specialised-in-areas-few-people-care-about ones, too.
Gotta love German universities.
*sigh*
There are fifteen seminars being offered this semester in American studies.
Five of them take place on Tuesday between four and six p.m.
These also happen to be the only ones that are 1.) interesting, 2.) fit into my plans of what I want to do in my last couple of terms of uni (and possibly in my thesis), 3.) didn't require signing up months in advance, and 4.) that I haven't already taken earlier.
So, I can only take *one* interesting seminar this term. Which means I need to fill the rest of my required classes with a) stuff that bores me to death (19th century stuff; the rise of unitarianism; art criticism; objectivism in American poetry) or b) stuff I've already done.
This is not only annoying because I'll be forced to waste time I could have spent learning something interesting learning about stuff I'm not interested in instead; it's also highly inconvenient because I'm still not sure what I'm going to write my thesis about, and was hoping that some seminar would give me an idea. Seminars on objectivism in poetry are unlikely to do that, as I'm interested neither in objectivism nor in poetry. Nor am I willing to write my thesis about the 19th century, one of my least favourite periods in history, and art criticism isn't something I can see myself getting interested in, either. American religions, on the other hand *are* kind of interesting, but that particular seminar is the third in a series, and I didn't take the first two, so I'd be missing the foundations.
They probably put all the interesting seminars on the same day and time because they guessed that those would be the most popular, and they wanted to force students to take only one of the interesting/popular ones and then take some of the boring/redundant/ridiculously-specialised-in-areas-few-people-care-about ones, too.
Gotta love German universities.