Okay, so for once I'm glad that we have so many fucking discussions and debates and even mudslinging around here when it comes to religious issues.
Why? Funny story that just happened a few hours hours ago.
Okay, so at 6 pm I go to this Engineering Physics presentation expecting some pizza, pop, and some boring lecturers. One out of three ain't bad, but it would've been nice to have that fucking pizza and pop that they advertised in order to get us students to go there. All was not lost though, since I saw toresica there as well, so I at least had a friend to talk to while we were waiting for for the information session to get started.
I had to leave at 6:50 because I had my night class, Religion and Anthropology, to go to in the basement since it was going to start at 7. On the way, I start thinking about how I'm going to have to finally start hitting the books for that class since the midterm is coming up next week.
So I go in the lecture hall, and I'm greeted with the unpleasant sight of a biiiig pile of blank mini-notebooks to write essays in and a few grad students getting ready to inviligate. Oh, and the nice big ANTHRO 2R03 MIDTERM written on the blackboard.
And it's in essay form.
And it's two hours long.
"Ooooooh shiiiiiiiiiit..."
So here I am, not having read a SINGLE page of the required readings and missing two and a half lectures on top of that to boot.
But I'm in luck! I've actually soaked in some knowledge when browsing through the General Discussion Forum and TO in the religion debates looking for all the awesome flame wars, insultings, whinings and point/counterpointings! And I actually DO pay attention to the lectures that I have been to! I actually understand religion and how to interpret specific aspects of it despite never doing any studying on it!
The essay questions called for specific examples out of the book, lectures, and films watched during the lectures. I could think of quite a few examples from the lectures and films, but as for specific religion philosophers and examples cited from the book I was pretty well fucked.
But meh, I understand all the basic concepts, so why not write about them and use examples I *do* know from outside of class? Like from here?
After the two hours was up, I had six pages of relevant examples and descriptions of the requested topics on religions. When I handed it in, I told the prof that (honestly) I must have heard him wrong when he moved the midterm from the original date to the alternative one, because I thought it was next week when he actually moved it to tonight. Along with that, I told him that I was consequently not prepared at all with examples from the course sources, but I did have a somewhat solid understanding of the topics off-hand and had used several examples from things I DID know straight from the top of my head. He said that he understood my plight and that he would take that into consideration when grading my midterm.
This midterm is worth 45% of the final grade for the term, so hopefully you fuckers educated me enough to get a good passing grade.
TEH MORAL?
CCR is still a bigoted bastard, but at least he's somewhat worth my time reading!
Why? Funny story that just happened a few hours hours ago.
Okay, so at 6 pm I go to this Engineering Physics presentation expecting some pizza, pop, and some boring lecturers. One out of three ain't bad, but it would've been nice to have that fucking pizza and pop that they advertised in order to get us students to go there. All was not lost though, since I saw toresica there as well, so I at least had a friend to talk to while we were waiting for for the information session to get started.
I had to leave at 6:50 because I had my night class, Religion and Anthropology, to go to in the basement since it was going to start at 7. On the way, I start thinking about how I'm going to have to finally start hitting the books for that class since the midterm is coming up next week.
So I go in the lecture hall, and I'm greeted with the unpleasant sight of a biiiig pile of blank mini-notebooks to write essays in and a few grad students getting ready to inviligate. Oh, and the nice big ANTHRO 2R03 MIDTERM written on the blackboard.
And it's in essay form.
And it's two hours long.
"Ooooooh shiiiiiiiiiit..."
So here I am, not having read a SINGLE page of the required readings and missing two and a half lectures on top of that to boot.
But I'm in luck! I've actually soaked in some knowledge when browsing through the General Discussion Forum and TO in the religion debates looking for all the awesome flame wars, insultings, whinings and point/counterpointings! And I actually DO pay attention to the lectures that I have been to! I actually understand religion and how to interpret specific aspects of it despite never doing any studying on it!
The essay questions called for specific examples out of the book, lectures, and films watched during the lectures. I could think of quite a few examples from the lectures and films, but as for specific religion philosophers and examples cited from the book I was pretty well fucked.
But meh, I understand all the basic concepts, so why not write about them and use examples I *do* know from outside of class? Like from here?
After the two hours was up, I had six pages of relevant examples and descriptions of the requested topics on religions. When I handed it in, I told the prof that (honestly) I must have heard him wrong when he moved the midterm from the original date to the alternative one, because I thought it was next week when he actually moved it to tonight. Along with that, I told him that I was consequently not prepared at all with examples from the course sources, but I did have a somewhat solid understanding of the topics off-hand and had used several examples from things I DID know straight from the top of my head. He said that he understood my plight and that he would take that into consideration when grading my midterm.
This midterm is worth 45% of the final grade for the term, so hopefully you fuckers educated me enough to get a good passing grade.
TEH MORAL?
CCR is still a bigoted bastard, but at least he's somewhat worth my time reading!
