my clusters are fucked
so i just started checking out the class sched for fall since i have to figure out pretty soon what i wanna take and how fast im trying to get out of sfstate...
the thing is that i can get out in a semester if i take a bunch of classes and they offer absolutely everything i need and i dont get fucked on any of my transfers from chile...
but i was thinking about trying to add a minor and just finishing up in two semesters, and then i thought about changing my clusterwhateverthing...its like an upper division ge where you choose a cluster and take three classes that are like related or whatever...
k so i had been signed up for this cross cultural studies in art and lit crap thing which sounded cool and relevant at first but i took one class listed under it and it sucked bigtime..as a nexa class it was supposed to be a good combination of science and humanities. well as far as i can tell so far there is no such thing. it made vague generalities like the worse of the humanities and contained way too much boring shit to be memorized like the worst of the sciences...it was actually the worst of both worlds in combination...
the rest of the classes listed under that cluster are not nec nexa but have similarly well meaning vague names and descrips like word thought image and promise the same crappy class experience of vague bullshit plus a little bit of pretentious academic self referential crap...
so i decided to change clusters. my first thought was to get the hell out of humanities since i already have a hum major..im in the process of taking my first polisci class and i love it, fits well with my ambition to stop being a bleeding heart liberal and start being as informed and intelligent and capable of analysis as amy goodman...
thats correct thats my fuckin goal. i just dont want to sound like one of those bitter burned out activists who regards everything negatively but with little information...yall know who i mean, the person always out at rallies and shit, bitching and moaning about the current atrocities but with little creative energy towards action or possibilities or solutions
nor do i wish to (no offense kermel) pull a kermit by which i mean activist turned regular dude who having swallowed some serious bullsshit of the extreme left for a long time without questioning some seriosly false info and boycotted damn near everybody and everything for years, now feels the need to be more moderate and question the extremes of tactics/dialogue/information that comes from the left. you know the idiots im talking about, they dont believe anything that sounds like it has a position, which means they equally disbelieve foxnews and kpfa and thus accept as probable only that heard on bbc whose position is often obscured by the combination of british accents and the notion of being outside of it...whatever it is...(although i do wanna give a shout out to the bbc as here i have cnn en esp or bbc for worldnews and they have hooked me up)
anyway when i looked at that cluster, the global peace studies bit it looked like it also consisted of some vague boring classes...god i hate vague boring classes. give me precision for fucks sakes!!!
so i am holding off the decision until i find out more abt transferring stuff from here and wether i decide to go for the minor in jewish studies which would be cool as fuck...and then i might just take the jewish experience cluster and double count the classes for the minor, smart huh?
yeah i know some of you are like what a minute what, minor in jewish studies? yeah but thats just those of you who forget how much i loved loved loved the jewish lit class i took bef i left town...and that it was that teacher who talked me into grad school and suggested a minor in jewish studies...i was like man im trying to graduate someday but check it out yall,
im on the scenic route/ ten year plan right? well by my calculations if i take two more semesters i will graduate after not 10 but 9 years in school!!! huh!!! ahead of fuckin time people!!! anyway ive been thinking about it since and i think im gonna do it...(although it did surprise me to figure out the number of undergrad years i have clocked, between three jcs and sfstate 8years all told and thats just fuckin insane...but thats why i need to go straight for the doctorate upon actual gradiation yknow...i mean i wont live forever i needta getta fucking move on...)
in other news today i officially have ONE MONTH!!!!! left in chile...ONE MONTH!!!!!!
homeward bound baby!!!!
ciao chile im fuckin outty mcouterson...catcahi?
the thing is that i can get out in a semester if i take a bunch of classes and they offer absolutely everything i need and i dont get fucked on any of my transfers from chile...
but i was thinking about trying to add a minor and just finishing up in two semesters, and then i thought about changing my clusterwhateverthing...its like an upper division ge where you choose a cluster and take three classes that are like related or whatever...
k so i had been signed up for this cross cultural studies in art and lit crap thing which sounded cool and relevant at first but i took one class listed under it and it sucked bigtime..as a nexa class it was supposed to be a good combination of science and humanities. well as far as i can tell so far there is no such thing. it made vague generalities like the worse of the humanities and contained way too much boring shit to be memorized like the worst of the sciences...it was actually the worst of both worlds in combination...
the rest of the classes listed under that cluster are not nec nexa but have similarly well meaning vague names and descrips like word thought image and promise the same crappy class experience of vague bullshit plus a little bit of pretentious academic self referential crap...
so i decided to change clusters. my first thought was to get the hell out of humanities since i already have a hum major..im in the process of taking my first polisci class and i love it, fits well with my ambition to stop being a bleeding heart liberal and start being as informed and intelligent and capable of analysis as amy goodman...
thats correct thats my fuckin goal. i just dont want to sound like one of those bitter burned out activists who regards everything negatively but with little information...yall know who i mean, the person always out at rallies and shit, bitching and moaning about the current atrocities but with little creative energy towards action or possibilities or solutions
nor do i wish to (no offense kermel) pull a kermit by which i mean activist turned regular dude who having swallowed some serious bullsshit of the extreme left for a long time without questioning some seriosly false info and boycotted damn near everybody and everything for years, now feels the need to be more moderate and question the extremes of tactics/dialogue/information that comes from the left. you know the idiots im talking about, they dont believe anything that sounds like it has a position, which means they equally disbelieve foxnews and kpfa and thus accept as probable only that heard on bbc whose position is often obscured by the combination of british accents and the notion of being outside of it...whatever it is...(although i do wanna give a shout out to the bbc as here i have cnn en esp or bbc for worldnews and they have hooked me up)
anyway when i looked at that cluster, the global peace studies bit it looked like it also consisted of some vague boring classes...god i hate vague boring classes. give me precision for fucks sakes!!!
so i am holding off the decision until i find out more abt transferring stuff from here and wether i decide to go for the minor in jewish studies which would be cool as fuck...and then i might just take the jewish experience cluster and double count the classes for the minor, smart huh?
yeah i know some of you are like what a minute what, minor in jewish studies? yeah but thats just those of you who forget how much i loved loved loved the jewish lit class i took bef i left town...and that it was that teacher who talked me into grad school and suggested a minor in jewish studies...i was like man im trying to graduate someday but check it out yall,
im on the scenic route/ ten year plan right? well by my calculations if i take two more semesters i will graduate after not 10 but 9 years in school!!! huh!!! ahead of fuckin time people!!! anyway ive been thinking about it since and i think im gonna do it...(although it did surprise me to figure out the number of undergrad years i have clocked, between three jcs and sfstate 8years all told and thats just fuckin insane...but thats why i need to go straight for the doctorate upon actual gradiation yknow...i mean i wont live forever i needta getta fucking move on...)
in other news today i officially have ONE MONTH!!!!! left in chile...ONE MONTH!!!!!!
homeward bound baby!!!!
ciao chile im fuckin outty mcouterson...catcahi?
posted by Rachel R. @ 7:22 PM
3 Comments:
At 9:37 AM,
Jeff Pollet said…
If you do end up doing some Jewish studies stuff, be sure to try to take a class from Prof. Luft. She rocks. I'm not sure if she still teaches it, but "Derrida and the Jewish Tradition" was one of my favorite classes ever. There is a lot of class discussion, interesting readings, and lots of feeback on papers written. Plus, she's just an interesting prof.
At 10:08 PM,
Rachel R. said…
thanks for the advice jeff that sounds like a fascinating class and v youd be surprised but basically my major and focus area connects pretty strongly with jewish studies, in literary terms i mean...sounds a little nuts but i swear to you jewish lit is the boom lit of our generation...
At 2:38 PM,
Jennifer said…
you are about to be homey mcHomerson~!
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