Gee, sorry you feel like you're having such a crappy time... You courses all sound amazing by the way - why is Astronomy a requirement since you're doing all that English-based stuff?
YAY NEW YORK NEW YORK! That's sooooo amazing, wow.
Torchwood is awesome - do you know when the next series is shown?
My college has gen-ed requirements, one of which is that we take a lab science. Astronomy is considered the lab science for poets, but it's still pretty annoying, and I don't have one of the easier teachers. Grrr.
Yeah, it's definitely great that I get to go to college in a major city where cool stuff happens all the time. :)
I do not know, but I bet I will be in a better position to answer that question in a week and a half!
Yeah, it is a really cool class, and I really want to stay with it. It's taught by this adorable French professor (who's English, so it's the best of both worlds!) who is really overly excited to teach a class where he's not struggling to be understood by his students.
It's really tragic! I come to LJ whenever I have technological issues because I know you guys will understand. *wry grin*
Oh biochem. I have friends. They make me depressed. Though I wonder what you mean by them sounding like B/C classes? Did you go to Barnard? (If so, I find it upsetting I don't know this about you!) Actually, now that I think about it, I thought you went to NYU?
haha, i did indeed go to Barnard! i was in Jaida's class, actually, although we never met- i knew some people who knew her, and i was introduced to SBP by one of our apparently-mutual friends. small world, go figure. :D what i meant was that a couple of those classes sound familiar- several of my humanities friends have bemoaned Astronomy- and if Enchanted Imagination is what i think it is (i.e. that fairytale/children's lit seminar that requires an application), i am DEEPLY ENVIOUS OMG.
My condolences to you and your broken laptop. It's one of the shittiest things us modern people have to deal with. My external hard drive with all my movies, music and so on has also died on me a while ago, so I hear your pain.
Enchanted Imagination and Astronomy sound like to Hogwarts courses. lol!
And I'm insanely jealous about the NYCC you're going to. Tell us everything about the Torchwood previews and Eve Myles when you get back. :)
Excuse me for wanting to get the most out of my education by taking classes simply to diversify my interests. And anyway, I've never read anything (or anything by the authors) from BB and it's a class on a theme I've never pursued, which is what I meant.
And ANYWAY, I knew I would sound like a total hypocrite to you, but I hope you know I feel keenly that I am betraying my principles!
However, I do appreciate your no nonsense/sympathy approach to my insanity. You better watch out, or I might transfer all of my adviser-related neediness onto you instead of my unreachable actual adviser!
well, la di da, i'm elizabeth and i spend all my days analyzing everything like it's literature. but maybe i analyze literature too much? you know what would be good for me? taking a new class... something different... a class where i... analyze literature!
but you're right, it's a crime that you haven't read 1984. here's what we'll do. we'll watch all the movies on that syllabus. then those of us who apparently didn't go to high school a.k.a. those of us who haven't read 1984 will read that, and then we'll read brave new world (same thing as 1984, except more believable and therefore scarier, also more sex) and some other selections from his syllabus/my experience with literature with authoritarian themes (feel free to contribute as well) and we'll have our own little class! we won't have the benefit of PUsher's brilliance, but hey. i might have been able to connect that first line to The Waste Land on my own.
actually, watching the movies is probably worth doing. god, he had a good list of movies.
Are you really going to tell me you don't spend a significant amount of time analyzing literature yourself? It is the core activity of the humanities. Even Gender and Sexuality in Ancient Greece was going to be mostly analyzing literature (in a historical context, you know). The fact that I don't like languages or the hard sciences kind of limits me enough already, God forbid I want to branch out in theme if not in practice. *stubborn pout*
I like your idea of watching the films. If I do end up dropping the class, they'll probably all end up on my netflix.
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YAY NEW YORK NEW YORK! That's sooooo amazing, wow.
Torchwood is awesome - do you know when the next series is shown?
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Yeah, it's definitely great that I get to go to college in a major city where cool stuff happens all the time. :)
I do not know, but I bet I will be in a better position to answer that question in a week and a half!
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It's really tragic! I come to LJ whenever I have technological issues because I know you guys will understand. *wry grin*
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My condolences to you and your broken laptop. It's one of the shittiest things us modern people have to deal with. My external hard drive with all my movies, music and so on has also died on me a while ago, so I hear your pain.
Enchanted Imagination and Astronomy sound like to Hogwarts courses. lol!
And I'm insanely jealous about the NYCC you're going to. Tell us everything about the Torchwood previews and Eve Myles when you get back. :)
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And ANYWAY, I knew I would sound like a total hypocrite to you, but I hope you know I feel keenly that I am betraying my principles!
However, I do appreciate your no nonsense/sympathy approach to my insanity. You better watch out, or I might transfer all of my adviser-related neediness onto you instead of my unreachable actual adviser!
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but you're right, it's a crime that you haven't read 1984. here's what we'll do. we'll watch all the movies on that syllabus. then those of us who apparently didn't go to high school a.k.a. those of us who haven't read 1984 will read that, and then we'll read brave new world (same thing as 1984, except more believable and therefore scarier, also more sex) and some other selections from his syllabus/my experience with literature with authoritarian themes (feel free to contribute as well) and we'll have our own little class! we won't have the benefit of PUsher's brilliance, but hey. i might have been able to connect that first line to The Waste Land on my own.
actually, watching the movies is probably worth doing. god, he had a good list of movies.
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I like your idea of watching the films. If I do end up dropping the class, they'll probably all end up on my netflix.
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