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[oceantheorem]

Okay, you guys suck at interactive entries. *sigh*

The only thing I have to report today is that I despise Social Sciences classes, and I despise the university for forcing me to take them in order to graduate. I loved Latin, and I miss French, and I'm upset that I can't take more of either language because I'm too busy taking stupid intro psych classes and stupid body art of the pacific classes. You know, this "body art" class is mostly about European representations of "pacific bodies," and so far is a complete waste of my time in that it is not only boring, it is also repetitive, and my professor is extremely antagonistic towards scientists. So I don't exactly feel welcome in the class, and this hasn't helped my negative opinion of the subject matter so far. Also, I have to work in a group to write a term paper, about which I am extremely unhappy.

I decided today that I mostly hate people, and I really am an introvert deep inside, despite my best efforts to be an extrovert, and that lately I have spent way too much time with other people, and I need to spend some time alone. Which hopefully will lead to more writing. Said writing will hopefully be the kind involving my nice leather journal and my expensive pens, instead of my poor dilapidated laptop.

And now that I'm finished railing about the state of the world, I'm off to read another thirty pages about how night dancing is worse than day dancing because it's more likely to lead to "illicit sexual liaisons." Ugh.

Comments

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[owlishness.livejournal.com]

For one thing, chill. It's only been a day since you posted the interactive thing and I didn't even read it before you decided that no one bothers to comment on your livejournal.

Out of curiosity, do you guys at Santa Cruz have the option of taking classes pass/fail? And didn't you take the pacific art something something class because you wanted to? Because if you don't have to, by all means drop it if the prof is an ass. Of course, I'm guessing that it's required for something or other.

Whatsup?

[tryptonique.livejournal.com]

Hey Kara,
I read this entry and found myself in large agreement. I think people should have more autonomy when determining their courses of study and not be forced into taking crap that has no use to them. I thought this in high school because as an attorney in the music business am I honestly going to need to understand the Pythagorean Theorem or the quadratic forumula? Hell no. Not being an ignorant troll has value, but if it is in your own self interest to have certain knowledge, a rational person will seek that knowledge out.

Btw...I'm majoring in the social sciences (Political Science and History double major), however one of my biggest complaints with the social sciences is the fact that they often lack emphasis on the SCIENCE part of the whole thing and opt into subjectivist nonsense that is bogus on a philosophical and pragmatic level.

Totally valid criticism.

-Evan