SCHOOL SUX
I don't have much to say right now, other than i absolutely hate this semester, school-wise.
Sociology has been the biggest waste of time, even if the subject matter is pretty interesting. I now know to never make the mistake again of choosing a "normal" class that covers an interesting niche of a subject over an honors general overview class. It's nearly impossible to drag myself out of bed just to waste an hour and fifteen minutes of time that i could be spending reading the textbook and learning three times the information, at least.
Journalism is the absolute bane of my existence, and i cannot wait to go to my advising appointment and withdraw from the school. 301 has inconsistent standards - on the small details, they want us to be incredibly professional and hold us to ridiculously anal standards, but on the larger issues, such as developing story ideas, they want to do everything for us and treat us like idiots. Also, they have an obnoxious way of scheduling assignments so that it's almost impossible to get them done ("write a story on a speech on campus" given out right before fall break... when i won't be on campus.) I'm having a ridiculous time doing the assignments, with most of the sources i contact or leads i follow not panning out - OR being so good, that someone on the school newspaper writes that story, so i can't turn my work in. Also, also: journalism is soulless and makes me hate writing.
Shakespeare is fine, except that right now we're reading histories, and i don't really care that much for them. Also we have a 5-8 page paper due Wednesday, and i want to cry. Cry... and put it off 'till as late as possible.
Italian's also fine, except that i completely fucked up my second test, so now i probably have a C in the class. If i want to have any chance of going to Italy next summer, i need a B. And there's no excuse, really. It's an easy class. I just need to sleep and study more.
And essay writing is fucking amazing, and the only thing worth going to school for.
All this has come up because in a couple weeks i have to go through the entire ordeal of enrolling again, and i have no idea what i'm going to take. However, i'm going to be abso-fucking-lutely sure of two things.
a. NO 8 am classes, unless there are some extreme circumstances.
b. Nothing i'm not absolutely sure i'm going to enjoy the hell out of.
Sociology has been the biggest waste of time, even if the subject matter is pretty interesting. I now know to never make the mistake again of choosing a "normal" class that covers an interesting niche of a subject over an honors general overview class. It's nearly impossible to drag myself out of bed just to waste an hour and fifteen minutes of time that i could be spending reading the textbook and learning three times the information, at least.
Journalism is the absolute bane of my existence, and i cannot wait to go to my advising appointment and withdraw from the school. 301 has inconsistent standards - on the small details, they want us to be incredibly professional and hold us to ridiculously anal standards, but on the larger issues, such as developing story ideas, they want to do everything for us and treat us like idiots. Also, they have an obnoxious way of scheduling assignments so that it's almost impossible to get them done ("write a story on a speech on campus" given out right before fall break... when i won't be on campus.) I'm having a ridiculous time doing the assignments, with most of the sources i contact or leads i follow not panning out - OR being so good, that someone on the school newspaper writes that story, so i can't turn my work in. Also, also: journalism is soulless and makes me hate writing.
Shakespeare is fine, except that right now we're reading histories, and i don't really care that much for them. Also we have a 5-8 page paper due Wednesday, and i want to cry. Cry... and put it off 'till as late as possible.
Italian's also fine, except that i completely fucked up my second test, so now i probably have a C in the class. If i want to have any chance of going to Italy next summer, i need a B. And there's no excuse, really. It's an easy class. I just need to sleep and study more.
And essay writing is fucking amazing, and the only thing worth going to school for.
All this has come up because in a couple weeks i have to go through the entire ordeal of enrolling again, and i have no idea what i'm going to take. However, i'm going to be abso-fucking-lutely sure of two things.
a. NO 8 am classes, unless there are some extreme circumstances.
b. Nothing i'm not absolutely sure i'm going to enjoy the hell out of.