There -IS- a huge body of culture, literature, and ideas from the old folklore and "fairy tales" that got -destroyed- in the English-speaking community by certain eras (Victorian among them) deciding that folklore/fairy tales were Childish Things that weren't very intelligent and had to be sanitized and homogenized ( Read more... )

Or at least, a really mini case of it. Right now I'm trying to figure out how I went for two weeks of classes -WITHOUT- changing my sleep schedule. I'd been going to bed between 3 and 6 am, and left to my own devices, getting up around noon. This didn't really chip into things on Mon/Wed when I had to be up around 10, but made Tue/Thur - where ( Read more... )

Take a 400 level class, make it a requirement for graduation for all majors within a department, then only do one session a year with a small class-size cap and refuse to open any other sessions of it, despite half the department rotating teaching it, so that it's entirely possible for students to spend three years -trying- to get into it.

...So apparently, the late fees mess and all ( Read more... )

PLZ be allowing me to see/access/etc. my stuff for yanno, spring semester registration so I can check that it's all where it should be.

"Oh you wantz to check schedule and register/add/drop? SURE HERE'S THE SEMESTER THAT ENDED LAST WEEK! Whu? What else would you want?" = FAIL.

Good news: Research-thing for Lit is kind of a dumbass project; the end result is an annotated bibliography and a page/page and half summary/thing ( Read more... )

So. Last semester when I took the first half of world lit (same teacher), he does do "discussion groups" in class - they only affect your grade in that you lose some points if you don't at least make a show of participating. Discussion group last semester were all freshmen that had no frame of reference on half of what we talked about, but if ( Read more... )

Took the Japanese test early - it was scheduled for Friday, but of course having the dental surgery tomorrow afternoon meant that wasn't likely. I think I didn't do so hot on the spoken part thanks to forgetting a couple words and not being entirely awake yet, although I at least got all the grammar/major parts. The rest of it didn't really give ( Read more... )

Justice class just got derailed into the teacher arguing philosophy and religious beliefs (Re: EVOLUTION AND BELIEF IN A CREATOR ARE MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE!) with a freshman student because of a tangential lecture-comment. *SIIIGH*. (With both sides eyeball deep in basically lousy rhetoric attempting to put across how they're right and the other's

Up at 7:30 am, classes classes yaaay classes ( Read more... )