Yay for thought-dumping.
Okay, ... around 20 minutes until I go to class early. I figured I'd update since I haven't since the Umbridgefic. Hrm. What to update about?
My options are these:
- Incoherent rage at my 20th Century Europe professor for continuing to screw up the online format and consequently screw me out of the grades I deserve.
- My realization that I have concerts coming up within a month; oh god.
- DID I MENTION THAT HOMEWORK HAS TAKEN OVER MY LIFE?
- My indecision over my Ancient World 10 page paper.
- My frustration at my idiot sister, but I think we had enough of that in this journal last year to fill a lifetime.
- My need to write, but inability to find time.
... I'll pick a few and go with it.
My professor for 20th C is the head of the history department, running six online classes, and does... other stuff. She's too busy to bother grading stuff, which I wouldn't mind if I got it back in a slightly timely fashion. Five weeks between graded assignments? NOT ON. Also, she made a typo on a question and confused me thoroughly, so I attempted to interpret and answered it, and I was wrong - so, she gave me a zero on that question. 88 on that worksheet. She told me if I changed my answer, she'd give me a proper grade, so I did. That was early February, and it hasn't been changed yet.
This time, she succeeded in changing the format of one worksheet that I'd already completed, so that one of my answers was deleted, and the other one shifted to a question that had nothing to do with it. I got a 66 on that one. Incoherent rage. I'm not entirely obsessed with getting good grades, but WHY AM I BEING PENALIZED FOR HER MISTAKES?
Ugh. Okay, onto something else.
I have a lot of homework, a lot of reading, mostly for 20th C but Search is also demanding a lot of me. I'm getting to that point in semester where I wouldn't mind sleeping when I'm not doing homework, or perhaps sleep instead of doing homework at all. It'll wear off. Probably.
I want to do more writing, I have ideas, but every time I get there I'm just too tired or the idea just doesn't come out right and I get really pissed off. So usually I just go to sleep. The Umbridgefic sounded a lot better in my head than in practice. Maybe I should keep the writing down until I feel less like a punching bag.
The Ancient World paper is going to be about religious history; I'm interested in it and I can't resist. I'd consider something about the impact religions had on law code, but I don't think that would work - those were two separate options. Still, I should choose before Wednesday, because that's when I'm actually going into heavy research and reading here at the library after school.
I have three ideas.
One: There are similar philosophies and parallelisms between Zoroastrianism, Buddhism, and Christianity. Is there historical overlap and interaction between these groups, are there reasons for these similarities, or is it just pure dumb luck?
Two: What role did religion play in the Roman martyrdom of early Christians, other than the obvious? What were the differences and similarities, and why did the actual martyrdom occur?
Three: What role did Rome have in the formation of Christianity (and particularly Roman Catholicism, ha) as we know it? The culture, the religion, the lifestyle. What was imprinted onto them, and what was disdained? Etc.
All three are equally interesting to me. 1 would be a heavy paper, a lot of work, but the results might be interesting. 2, I know what my research would be, because this was my original idea and I've already checked out some materials. 3 would have similar materials to 2, but it's slightly different - I got this idea because my professor suggested that the Christian idea of angels may have stemmed from the myth of Athena.
It's always so refreshing to get thoughts out of my head. Time to go!
My options are these:
- Incoherent rage at my 20th Century Europe professor for continuing to screw up the online format and consequently screw me out of the grades I deserve.
- My realization that I have concerts coming up within a month; oh god.
- DID I MENTION THAT HOMEWORK HAS TAKEN OVER MY LIFE?
- My indecision over my Ancient World 10 page paper.
- My frustration at my idiot sister, but I think we had enough of that in this journal last year to fill a lifetime.
- My need to write, but inability to find time.
... I'll pick a few and go with it.
My professor for 20th C is the head of the history department, running six online classes, and does... other stuff. She's too busy to bother grading stuff, which I wouldn't mind if I got it back in a slightly timely fashion. Five weeks between graded assignments? NOT ON. Also, she made a typo on a question and confused me thoroughly, so I attempted to interpret and answered it, and I was wrong - so, she gave me a zero on that question. 88 on that worksheet. She told me if I changed my answer, she'd give me a proper grade, so I did. That was early February, and it hasn't been changed yet.
This time, she succeeded in changing the format of one worksheet that I'd already completed, so that one of my answers was deleted, and the other one shifted to a question that had nothing to do with it. I got a 66 on that one. Incoherent rage. I'm not entirely obsessed with getting good grades, but WHY AM I BEING PENALIZED FOR HER MISTAKES?
Ugh. Okay, onto something else.
I have a lot of homework, a lot of reading, mostly for 20th C but Search is also demanding a lot of me. I'm getting to that point in semester where I wouldn't mind sleeping when I'm not doing homework, or perhaps sleep instead of doing homework at all. It'll wear off. Probably.
I want to do more writing, I have ideas, but every time I get there I'm just too tired or the idea just doesn't come out right and I get really pissed off. So usually I just go to sleep. The Umbridgefic sounded a lot better in my head than in practice. Maybe I should keep the writing down until I feel less like a punching bag.
The Ancient World paper is going to be about religious history; I'm interested in it and I can't resist. I'd consider something about the impact religions had on law code, but I don't think that would work - those were two separate options. Still, I should choose before Wednesday, because that's when I'm actually going into heavy research and reading here at the library after school.
I have three ideas.
One: There are similar philosophies and parallelisms between Zoroastrianism, Buddhism, and Christianity. Is there historical overlap and interaction between these groups, are there reasons for these similarities, or is it just pure dumb luck?
Two: What role did religion play in the Roman martyrdom of early Christians, other than the obvious? What were the differences and similarities, and why did the actual martyrdom occur?
Three: What role did Rome have in the formation of Christianity (and particularly Roman Catholicism, ha) as we know it? The culture, the religion, the lifestyle. What was imprinted onto them, and what was disdained? Etc.
All three are equally interesting to me. 1 would be a heavy paper, a lot of work, but the results might be interesting. 2, I know what my research would be, because this was my original idea and I've already checked out some materials. 3 would have similar materials to 2, but it's slightly different - I got this idea because my professor suggested that the Christian idea of angels may have stemmed from the myth of Athena.
It's always so refreshing to get thoughts out of my head. Time to go!