Nov 18, 2011 10:49
I'm sooo beyond over this semester. I have two papers, two presentations, a take home test, some readings, a worksheet, and a second draft of my thesis between me and Christmas break.
I spent this entire last fortnight basically divorced from the internet because I had NO TIME. I've finally made it through the week, but then I woke up this morning to a troubling email.
[me]-san,
There seems to be some confusion in your paper regarding analysis. Can you meet on Tuesday to talk about it?
[teacher]-sensei
This is about my one Japanese class. My one Japanese teacher seems to be very, very, above-and-beyond concerned about my ability to write a linguistics research paper in Japanese. I have no such concerns. I could give a fuck about this paper. I could give a fuck about Japanese linguistics. And I'm pretty sure that unless I get full credit on everything associated with this paper, I'm gonna get a B in the class anyway, so I LEGIT DON'T EVEN CARE. (Interestingly enough, my other Japanese teacher loves my papers, and I've got A's on all of hers, so I'm not sure what's up with that. And I get full credit on all the homework in the linguistics class, so it's just.ragrhgh.)
But how do I explain to a teacher who's just spent 7/8 of a semester explaining the importance of indirect speech and conversational implicature in Japanese, the incredibly direct statement: "Yeah, I really don't care about this topic at all. That's probably why my paper sucks." (Or このトッピック、ぜんぜん興味がないんです、先生。そのせいで論文が悪いでしょう。)
I just want to throw her class into a hole and burn it with fire. Rargh.
school,
raeg,
seniorness,
college,
angst,
rant,
i'm losing my mind