Comments | lustmordred: Catching up is really hard...

lustmordred

Catching up is really hard...

Jan 24, 2012 22:14

because all I want to do is sleep. I've been completely exhausted since Sunday and tomorrow is one of those non-stop days. My schedule this semester is really weird. All of my classes are on Monday, Wednesday and Friday except one, which I have to catch the bus to get to and bonus, happens to have the only instructor thus far who I would like to ( Read more... )

1+1=3, bitchy muse will have her say, one word at a time, headspace: mine, planes crash and clowns kill, i'm an english major you do the math

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amberdreams January 25 2012, 15:43:00 UTC

Hi you...
I am still bemused by the American education system - you are at University, right? So why are you still doing subjects you don't want to do like maths? Over here, even where degrees are modular, it is a degree in one or maybe if you are a joint major, two subjects. So yeah, you might still have modules you are less interested in (I had to do Prehistoric Italy, for instance) but they are at least all related to your degree - in my case Archaeology.

Americans are a strange race! :D

lustmordred January 25 2012, 17:15:32 UTC

Hi.

I'm an English major, Journalism minor. There are some basic subjects that all degrees have to have some credits in. These are usually things like math, history, foreign language, that sort of thing. I'm thinking it's because it's assumed that no matter what your major, some level of knowledge in these things is going to be necessary. Which I sort of agree with, but it doesn't make me feel better about math, which I'm horrible at. Not because I don't know how to do it, mind. I do it mostly in my head, then I don't know how to tell or show someone (the instructor) how I got it. Which is behind my failing in math throughout school. That doesn't make sense to me, but eh. Not much I can do about it.

I suppose we are. Some Americans are stranger than others. I'm part American Indian, for example, and that always makes things awkward at parties. The way things are done though, that is definitely strange a lot of the time. Often it doesn't make any sense, but we keep doing them because that's the tradition, lol.

amberdreams January 25 2012, 17:39:43 UTC

I guess our system assumes we get the grounding we need in those basic subjects in high school then the degree is there for you to concentrate on your specialism (which for me was broad enough - I mean having to learn in depth practical archaeology plus all the period stuff was intense, and then I also took minor units in classical history too but they were directly complimentary so made sense).
I'd have died if I'd had to carry on doing maths even at A level (final 2 years of high school) let alone at Uni!!!

And that as a system makes more sense to me too, but then that was what I was brought up with.

Being nosey now, why does having Native American heritage make things awkward for you?

lustmordred January 25 2012, 20:25:52 UTC

I wish our system assumed that. My math teacher in high school was an alcoholic who drank whiskey out of her coffee mug in class, then did the homework for us on the white board. I got B's in her classes. Heh. I get mostly A's in English, so I'd do pretty well with that kind of system probably. Now, I just have to suffer through it and try to find a tutor if it starts to get bad ( ... )

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