What are you thinking RIGHT NOW?

[Buffy]

I don't know why I'm feeling so down...

I hope you feel better love *hugs*

Thanks <333
I'll be okay. Just one of those days.

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Will I get to bed before midnight? I do not know... I have 25 minutes.

[Gemini]

^ Uni lit classes are different... You read loads of irrelevant, boring, old literature (not the good old lit) and then in most classes, the teacher wants to talk about "what did the author mean by this?" Which obviously, no one but said author can know, and SOME of them discuss the work itself. Students are supposed to analyze the work on their own and give their interpretation of different events, and discuss the things they made note of. And write a million essays about it. It's nothing like the high school ones, and when you have four of them at once, that's a bad thing. The professors expect you to know everything about every literary device, and some expect you to know the entire history of a time period so as to better understand the work. But they don't always explain that stuff. I floundered in one class for not knowing how to measure poetry or whatever it's called.

Geez, that sounds rough, but already not too different from the stuff I've had to take. Since I'm in AP Lit now and that's a college-level course, I honestly have no idea what to expect. But yeah, it's the interpretation of the author's work that strikes me as annoying. "What does this metaphor mean?" And then they go super in-depth or come up with either something that's some nonsense or just painfully obvious, before going to great lengths to explain it.

At the end of the day though, does it really matter? Does it? Really? I mean, sometimes we make decisions just because that's what fits best into the plot. Didn't anyone ever consider that? Why do we have to analyze every word? Why can't we just read the book and enjoy it and learn the broader lesson from it?

It really pisses me off to think about.

[Carl]

^ Yeah, I mean I understand some analysis, and in my YA Lit class last semester, it was spot on. We used our personal experiences to explain what we got from the book and debated with other students and at the end of the day the teacher was always like "well nobody's wrong." That class was fun, and therefore easy, and it was the one I always read the material for even if that meant forsaking the others (which, honestly, it often did). But the things we read for that class were current, interesting, and enjoyable to read... so that surely helped as well. In fact, my Shakespeare class last semester was pretty great too. It's just that most of the lit classes are over boring, hard to read, ancient texts that have no current value other than being "classics"--which I can appreciate to a degree--the analysis of which involves understanding the political aspects of the year it was written, as well as the period's "pop culture" and the region specific information, which is information the teacher generally provides after you've read the text, thus making it hard to note the connections. And they expect to claim to know why the author wrote a story about this or a poem about that. On top of that, most of the texts are essays, actually, that have no narrative at all and are full of contradictory and wholly inaccurate "truths" the author wishes to convey; in other words, pretentious self-assurances of righteousness and mad ramblings with little to no meaning in the modern world. And then the professor goes like "write me a essay bout y this dude was right bout dis shizz hurr durr." Meanwhile I'm just like... "he's not."

So, yeah, I rambled a bit, but the point is, some of the classes can be good if they do the right kind of analysis, but most of them are horrible classes because the material is uninteresting and the professor presumes to know almost as much as the author did.

[SimbasMate]

This guy needs to get over himself

[Si-Amber]

4 days before I do a 21 mile walk for charity and I come down with a cold. It better clear off sharpish.

[Buffy]

Another day of work...

[Daenerys]

i wake up with a splitting headache and i'm exhausted and it's only the third day of school
this is gonna be a fun year -.-'

[Perrys Girlfriend]

^

I wonder if there's a 'Phineas and Ferb' forum around...I'm obsessed with Perry...

[Shadowfax]

When people say they have no money... Yet they still manage to go out/buy LOADS of stuff.... Yeh.

[Perrys Girlfriend]

Perry...Perry the Platypus....Agent P....