Funky Feeling

I must say this year I am a lot more ambivalent.  Only one course really excites me.  The other four I'd say are "yeah, well, ok."  I even changed some of my courses hoping to come up with more palatable combinations, but to no avail.  Now in the second week of classes, I still haven't been able to get myself in gear.

Perhaps this is a case of sophomore slump.  Who knows.  How should I deal with it?

I have decided that I will try to write a term paper in the next couple of weeks.  I also have a couple of term paper proposals I am supposed to do.  I can do those instead. Perhaps some small measure of accomplishment will help pull me out of the slump.  Stay tuned.  I'll see if that works out.

Dropped out of a class last week, after the first session.  It's the class on the foundations of liberalism and socialism.  I like the subject, but I can't stand the prof.  She tried too hard to be one of the students (who are mostly 19).  And her assignments are way too kiddy for me.  Perhaps because I am too old for that shit.  I am jaded.  But let me give you an example. One of the assignments to write a children's book, complete with illustrations, describing and explaining one of the theories in the class.  Ok, a fucking children's book?  What are we?  In middle school?  I think university should be more serious than that.  

Anyhow, I dropped that, and picked up a 19th Century European history class.  OK, don't you HATE profs whose lectures are straight from the book?  Really.  Assuming one reads the fucking book, why does one want to sit there and listen to someone going through that shit again?  OK, I will continue to go to class, just in case I miss something, but I am starting to work on the term paper proposal (due Oct 2) and the paper itself (due in Nov) now.  And reading ahead.

And this French class I'm taking.  Some of you may know that I don't have much affection for France.  And increasingly, Quebec's racist politics antagonize me so.  My desire to learn the language is now solely driven by the challenge of learning a language.  But my dislike of the source of this language is something I have to contend with.  To worsen things, it's still a third year class (even though it's the third in the series) so it doesn't count towards my degree, though the grade will be included in computing my GPA.  So in other words, if I don't get an A+ in the class, my GPA goes down.  What a deal, eh?

Maybe I should take an Intro Marketing course for fun... (and flunk it, haha).

Food for thought.

Are there happier notes I can share with you?

Oh, I found out that at UOttawa, if you have laser toners to recycle, you can take it to any of the campus recycling stations and they will take care of it!  Nice!  I don't have to go find a Best Buy anymore. 

Looks like summer is about over.  While today it will still get up to 20 C (that's just under 70F), the balmy days of summer are probably gone for a while.  Not that I really miss them that much.  Certainly I don't look forward to the frigid cold, and all that ice, in the winter.  More on that in a couple of months. 

Till next time!