higher learning
i'm sitting in a university tutorial pretending to take notes but instead writing a post to entertain and inform my readers.
the class has been running for one hour and so far:
3 mobile phones have rung.
2 text messages have been received.
6 people have "gone to the toilet", trying to be discreet about the mobile phones vibrating in their hands (including me).
4 people have mentioned foucault.
12 people have used the word 'dichotomy' (including me).
7 people have also used the word 'commodification' in the same sentence as 'dichotomy'.
4 people have followed up 'dichotomy' and 'commodification' with 'postmodern'.
9 people have yawned (including me).
2 people have looked at me in a way indicative of a camaraderie of pain.
make it 4 mobile phones that have rung.
3 people have their laptops open and are almost certainly surfing the net instead of taking notes (including me).
10 people have shared irrelevant personal anecdotes about their mother's uncle's partner's gay dog.
make that 5 people who have mentioned foucault.
1 person has stated he is homosexual.
1 person has confessed to being a feminist.
3 people have made quasi-interesting points.
nobody has taught me anything new yet.
make that 3 text messages that have been received.
oooh, another use of 'dichotomy' takes the score up to 13.
oh lord i wish i hadn't promised my mother on her deathbed that i'd finish uni.
*dies inside*
12 Comments:
Only you could make a boring uni lecture sound infinitely more interesting than it no doubt is.
Did you give your mum a time frame by which you would finish Uni?
Maybe you could put it off for a couple of years and come back later. I'm can't imagine she would mind too much, as long as you are happy.
ps what the hell is foucault? I am too lazy to google
i've already been there seven years, dxxx. i'm pretty antsy to finish quick smart.
its time to go, la nadine.
and foucault is a postmodern social theorist who is actually very insightful but sadly heavily overused by social science students when they have no idea what they're on about (including me).
Seven years is a good effort (although completely understandable, given what you've had to cope with over the last few years). Is there a record for the longest time ever taken to complete your degree? maybe you could go for that ?
Good luck in finishing anyway. I guess it's a good plan do it now, while your brain is still only half functioning, then you're only killing half of it with the dullness and by the time you've finished, you will come out of the fog and be ready to start life again with a degree in your back pocket.....
You will get there eventually.
Dxxxx
dxxxx, wise wise woman
x to both of you
Aaaagghhhhh .... FOO KOH.
I had to write a piece on his rambling theories yesterday.*
Gotta love this line (from Wikipedia):
'Postmodernism's proponents are often criticised for a tendency to indulge in exhausting, verbose stretches of rhetorical gymnastics, which critics feel sound important but are ultimately meaningless.'
Damn straight!
i think i love wikipedia today, cynic.
and you of course.
you too dxxx.
and mg.
so much love to give, so little will to get out of bed today.
that'll learn me for drinking til seven am on a thursday, huh?
la, i liked this post so much, the listing bit of it, not the big words i didna understand, that it inspired me to make my own list post today.
stay home tonight and read a book. keep off the turps. look after yourself.
On behalf of all lecturers and tutors who put you through this torture (and yes - guilty as charged on occasion - minus the 'F' word which I am no way near smart enough to play with properly), I apologise unreservedly.
And if you think it's only the students that get bored then .... well ...
Why the fuck did I pick IT and not sociology/social science?
okay, i get everything else up there for a soc studies class and you do manage to make it sound interesting, but how the hell did 10 people managed to talk about their mother's uncle's partner's gay dog in that lecture?!?!?!?
I just wrote an essay on Foucault.
It did my head in.
I don't know how I missed this post the first time around. It is total genius. You've just summed up my entire Arts degree, and not for the first time, either.
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