Western Civ 2, CLEAR!
Whoohoo! I had my last exam today in the Western Civ class I keep complaining about, now it's all done and I'm free! ^_^ The prof even added up my total score for the course, so I know I got an A.
I admit I didn't do as well on this essay test as on the other one---I only got 101/100 instead of 107. ^_^;; But! One last time, let me count the fail.
For these tests, he had us suggest topics that he would then formulate questions about (and we were supposed to research these topics without knowing what the question was going to be, which threw me worse this time than last time, but I did fine). I spoke up and suggested Feminism, and, er, this is what he came up with:
"Feminism: Every act, every decision must be viewed as a potential offense to someone due to the nature of capitalism. (Okay, how is this relevant to anything, let alone capitalism?? Mind it's not like I haven't heard feminists called umbrage-junkies before... -_-;) However, it is known that for the female (!) life today is better than yesterday. Select any aspect of the Females (!!) struggle for equality and discuss why the process even in a more liberal Europe took decades especially for something as simple as the vote. Comment on why Europeans are reluctant to place a woman in control of a large corporation but will overwhelmingly vote a female (!!!) into the chief political chair. (...they are/will?) Mention if you believe European women are treated better than American females (!!!!)."
Well, I guess they are treated better because they get to be called "women" but I wasn't snarky enough to say that.
So there's a little peek into my prof's brain. I got a 93 on the essay (then got bonus points), because I didn't tie in all of his wonky points as well as I might've, but wth. Toward the end here I was kind of slacking off, and I still got 513/500 points for the course overall. (He was like "I made it too easy" and I said "well, I am essentially a grad student...")
It was a little funny, though; I had made another run to my alma mater's library and got about five books related to post-war European feminism and had this pile of stuff (he didn't give me a chance to use the Simone de Beauvoir trivia) which struck everyone a little funny, but I trusted the university library more than the internet, I guess. Anyway, when I turned my paper in, he was in a jovial mood and pantomimed an "oof" like I'd handed him a cast-iron skillet or something. "It's so heavy!" "Well, I had to stuff all those books in there!" Some classmates had a good laugh out of that. (I'll have to have a better look at some of those books before I turn them back in, tho; they look interesting. I do feel kind of bad just skimming them for quotes, but there wasn't time for much else. I'm sure I was the only one worried that I was committing sloppy scholarship, but yeah...)
He seemed almost heartbroken that I pulled out of one of my books where Allied troops raped women in post-war Berlin; I went with the conciliatory half-truth and told him it was mainly the Ruskies.
But now, done with that, never have to take another 8-week course again, or at least not under that guy; can focus on my much-more-fun-and-fascinating History of Witch Hunts course.
I also got some fried mushrooms on the way home for a treat. Yum. ^_^
I admit I didn't do as well on this essay test as on the other one---I only got 101/100 instead of 107. ^_^;; But! One last time, let me count the fail.
For these tests, he had us suggest topics that he would then formulate questions about (and we were supposed to research these topics without knowing what the question was going to be, which threw me worse this time than last time, but I did fine). I spoke up and suggested Feminism, and, er, this is what he came up with:
"Feminism: Every act, every decision must be viewed as a potential offense to someone due to the nature of capitalism. (Okay, how is this relevant to anything, let alone capitalism?? Mind it's not like I haven't heard feminists called umbrage-junkies before... -_-;) However, it is known that for the female (!) life today is better than yesterday. Select any aspect of the Females (!!) struggle for equality and discuss why the process even in a more liberal Europe took decades especially for something as simple as the vote. Comment on why Europeans are reluctant to place a woman in control of a large corporation but will overwhelmingly vote a female (!!!) into the chief political chair. (...they are/will?) Mention if you believe European women are treated better than American females (!!!!)."
Well, I guess they are treated better because they get to be called "women" but I wasn't snarky enough to say that.
So there's a little peek into my prof's brain. I got a 93 on the essay (then got bonus points), because I didn't tie in all of his wonky points as well as I might've, but wth. Toward the end here I was kind of slacking off, and I still got 513/500 points for the course overall. (He was like "I made it too easy" and I said "well, I am essentially a grad student...")
It was a little funny, though; I had made another run to my alma mater's library and got about five books related to post-war European feminism and had this pile of stuff (he didn't give me a chance to use the Simone de Beauvoir trivia) which struck everyone a little funny, but I trusted the university library more than the internet, I guess. Anyway, when I turned my paper in, he was in a jovial mood and pantomimed an "oof" like I'd handed him a cast-iron skillet or something. "It's so heavy!" "Well, I had to stuff all those books in there!" Some classmates had a good laugh out of that. (I'll have to have a better look at some of those books before I turn them back in, tho; they look interesting. I do feel kind of bad just skimming them for quotes, but there wasn't time for much else. I'm sure I was the only one worried that I was committing sloppy scholarship, but yeah...)
He seemed almost heartbroken that I pulled out of one of my books where Allied troops raped women in post-war Berlin; I went with the conciliatory half-truth and told him it was mainly the Ruskies.
But now, done with that, never have to take another 8-week course again, or at least not under that guy; can focus on my much-more-fun-and-fascinating History of Witch Hunts course.
I also got some fried mushrooms on the way home for a treat. Yum. ^_^