for all the steps you take, for all you've overcome, i wanna be the one to put it in a song
Hi LJ. It's been awhile.
Classes are going alright, I guess? Lmfoa who am I kidding I feel overwhelmed as fuck. I honestly imagined that these courses would be easier than Bryn Mawr, and that I would have a ton of time to do homework and travel but damn I was off. Dutch isn't hard, but it's so annoying and the work feels honestly useless since we're only learning basic phrases and shit like that. Plus the teacher is really bad and just reviews the same stupid crap over and over dkljf it's a bitch.
Ethnic diversity&pop culture and islamic law&morality confuse the fuck out of me. I honestly have no idea where the professor is trying to go with this class. It just seems like a bigass clusterfuck just slapped together, because the professor is doing almost nothing, expecting the students to take control. Um, what? I can understand wanting students to be involved, but with no direction to go we're just gonna sit on our ass. lmfao I'm just so pissed about it, because I want to like these courses but I feel like they are going NO WHERE. I hate that so much JUST TELL ME WHAT'S GOING ON! Give me a syllabus that actually tells me homework and whats going on jesus christ is that so much to ask for.
Pleasure&Politics is like a 300 level course but at least it has the structure that none of these other classes have. The teacher seems nice, but he's really blunt and sometimes comes off as really intimidating and occasionally very judging. It's really frustrating to have a teacher like that, because you're constantly nervous that they think you're just a fucking retard so you just stress instead of learning anything properly. At least the material is really interesting, so the reading isn't all that hard. It's still kinda @_! for me though. I'm sure I'll get the hang of all of my classes in a few weeks, because they only meet once a week it's a lot harder to grasp them right away.
Also since they meet once a week I can pretty much NEVER miss class, which really sucks. I mean I've always gone to class all the time don't get me wrong but it's nice to take a day for yourself once in awhile. I know once Dutch is done I'll have 5 day weekends LMFAO so it should be easier but fuck man. That seems so far away from now!
The only things I have to look forward to are Brussels this weekend (we leave tomorrow morning and come back on Sunday night!), the Rotterdam day trip on the 24th, Groningen & Leeuwarden on October 9th&10th, and Portugal in November.
The other two places I really want to go to are Berlin and somewhere in southern France, probably Marseille. For some reason I just have no desire to see Paris - it seems madly overrated to me. I'd also like to go to Copenhagen (Denmark), either Barcelona or Granada (Spain), Dublin (Ireland), and I'd also like to go back to London (UK) and Brugge (Belgium). OBVIOUSLY I CAN'T DO ALL OF THESE THINGS LFAO but I'll just dream. In my little dream world.
Quietly.
*sits in amsterdam and sheds a single tear*.
Classes are going alright, I guess? Lmfoa who am I kidding I feel overwhelmed as fuck. I honestly imagined that these courses would be easier than Bryn Mawr, and that I would have a ton of time to do homework and travel but damn I was off. Dutch isn't hard, but it's so annoying and the work feels honestly useless since we're only learning basic phrases and shit like that. Plus the teacher is really bad and just reviews the same stupid crap over and over dkljf it's a bitch.
Ethnic diversity&pop culture and islamic law&morality confuse the fuck out of me. I honestly have no idea where the professor is trying to go with this class. It just seems like a bigass clusterfuck just slapped together, because the professor is doing almost nothing, expecting the students to take control. Um, what? I can understand wanting students to be involved, but with no direction to go we're just gonna sit on our ass. lmfao I'm just so pissed about it, because I want to like these courses but I feel like they are going NO WHERE. I hate that so much JUST TELL ME WHAT'S GOING ON! Give me a syllabus that actually tells me homework and whats going on jesus christ is that so much to ask for.
Pleasure&Politics is like a 300 level course but at least it has the structure that none of these other classes have. The teacher seems nice, but he's really blunt and sometimes comes off as really intimidating and occasionally very judging. It's really frustrating to have a teacher like that, because you're constantly nervous that they think you're just a fucking retard so you just stress instead of learning anything properly. At least the material is really interesting, so the reading isn't all that hard. It's still kinda @_! for me though. I'm sure I'll get the hang of all of my classes in a few weeks, because they only meet once a week it's a lot harder to grasp them right away.
Also since they meet once a week I can pretty much NEVER miss class, which really sucks. I mean I've always gone to class all the time don't get me wrong but it's nice to take a day for yourself once in awhile. I know once Dutch is done I'll have 5 day weekends LMFAO so it should be easier but fuck man. That seems so far away from now!
The only things I have to look forward to are Brussels this weekend (we leave tomorrow morning and come back on Sunday night!), the Rotterdam day trip on the 24th, Groningen & Leeuwarden on October 9th&10th, and Portugal in November.
The other two places I really want to go to are Berlin and somewhere in southern France, probably Marseille. For some reason I just have no desire to see Paris - it seems madly overrated to me. I'd also like to go to Copenhagen (Denmark), either Barcelona or Granada (Spain), Dublin (Ireland), and I'd also like to go back to London (UK) and Brugge (Belgium). OBVIOUSLY I CAN'T DO ALL OF THESE THINGS LFAO but I'll just dream. In my little dream world.
Quietly.
*sits in amsterdam and sheds a single tear*.