7 posts tagged “school”

Biology is so not my thing. I can talk about chemistry all day, and if I didn't have bills to pay I would definitely be going to college for a degree in Chemistry. But the macroprocesses of life couldn't interest me less. I'm glad they work, don't get me wrong- without them, we'd all be in trouble- but I trust them to work without my understanding. Next class term is math and accounting, so I guess I should probably enjoy the Biology class while I'm in it.

I think I'm in school with idiots.

I used to be extremely annoyed when I saw classmates display the "I don't care about these classes, I'm just here for the piece of paper at the end," but I'm coming to the home stretch of a class term filled with Marketing (not interesting to me), Business Communications (a hybrid of the most boring parts of psychology and composition), and my bazillionth English class, and I'm really starting to understand that attitude better. I've taken all the classes that I know interest me, so I'm hoping the next eight months are not filled with crap that I roll my eyes at and trudge through just to get my degree.

But I'm not holding my breath.

I've been back in school for about six months. I decided that a two year degree was a good starting point, but not such a great stopping point, which is why I went back. The class terms last 8 weeks, which packs a lot of things into a short time. In addition, it looks like I'm going to be obliged to learn MS Access for work. I honestly can't wait to be done with school so that I can go back to reading the books I want to read. The work thing, I can't do much about until I win the lottery. Which I never play.

This semester my new irritation is my marketing class. This week's discussion question involved "pay-for-play" advertising, i.e., a company buys a bunch of advertising from a media outlet, and in return the media outlet writes/broadcasts a favorable news item about that company. I agree that it's ethically questionable in the grand scheme of things, but it's also one of those societal evils that can't be remedied from the outside. My classmates all clamor about how the FTC should be regulating this practice, and my argument is that it would be a tremendous waste of taxpayer dollars to enlist an entire staff of people to try to suss out causal relationships between advertising and the news media, especially when everyone knows it's happening already. Isn't it the nature of the media that it can be bought and sold? The question has moved beyond what's right and what's wrong. What we need to ask now is whether there is anything we can do about it.

I'm seriously pondering writing a blog post out by hand during my lunch break tomorrow so that I can keep up with writing. I'm so knee-deep in schoolwork right now that paper, pencil, and lunchtime are the parameters for any non-academic writing I want to get done.

You may not realize it, but I'm actually asleep right now.

My textbooks finally arrived today, and the gracious hotel desk staff held them and handed them to me before I even got a chance to open my mouth to ask about them when I got in after work. Did I mention I've been slightly bugging them over whether or not the books had arrived? Yeah.

It rained. all. day today, which I think it sort of did everywhere this side of the Mississippi. Hopefully Georgia can work itself out of its funky drought condition that it's been rocking for a few years now. Yes, it has been rocking the funk. The dry funk. Rocking the dry funk.

I've been eating a lot of Smarties.