So in my class we did the one thing worse then going around the room (intoduce yourself, say something about yourself etc). We had to interview eachother and then recite whatever we could think to ask, This is much worse because then there's about 20 awkward minutes of trying to figure out what to ask. Then the teacher criticizes us for not having found out enough. This reminds me of a quote I once heard from a prostitute "The worst was when they'd pay for an hour and a half because then sex wasn't enough. They'd feel like , since they payed so much, you owed them a peace of your soul. They felt entitled to your whole life story." The funny thing is professors don't pay us, they just act like they do. Especially at my school. In every class the teacher gives the same speach. "For every absence I'm taking ten points off of your final grade. I don't care If your mother dies, even if you show me a death certificate, I don't want to hear it. This is the real world now. You couldn't just skip a day of work." The funny thing is, pretty much every job allows sick days. School does a lot of being more unfair then any work situation ever would be, while using the excuse that they're preparing you for jobs. Like when they sit and watch while somebody strangles you, claiming to be prepairing you for "the real world, where people don't worry about your feelings,' even though this behaviour would be considered assault, if the victem were over 18 and not a student

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So in my class we did the one thing worse then going around the room (intoduce yourself, say something about yourself etc). We had to interview eachother and then recite whatever we could think to ask, This is much worse because then there's about 20 awkward minutes of trying to figure out what to ask. Then the teacher criticizes us for not having found out enough. This reminds me of a quote I once heard from a prostitute "The worst was when they'd pay for an hour and a half because then sex wasn't enough. They'd feel like , since they payed so much, you owed them a peace of your soul. They felt entitled to your whole life story." The funny thing is professors don't pay us, they just act like they do. Especially at my school. In every class the teacher gives the same speach. "For every absence I'm taking ten points off of your final grade. I don't care If your mother dies, even if you show me a death certificate, I don't want to hear it. This is the real world now. You couldn't just skip a day of work." The funny thing is, pretty much every job allows sick days. School does a lot of being more unfair then any work situation ever would be, while using the excuse that they're preparing you for jobs. Like when they sit and watch while somebody strangles you, claiming to be prepairing you for "the real world, where people don't worry about your feelings,' even though this behaviour would be considered assault, if the victem were over 18 and not a student.

So, uh, yeah

My classes start on Tuesday and as of Friday they still haven't listed the books. I guess they're really cracking down on people "robbing" them by buying books online for much cheaper and cracking down on "cheating" by reading ahead before classes start. Teachers have really started cracking down on that "cheating" in the past year or so. I had one teacher last year who would only give us one week's worth of syllabus at a time to make sure we didn't "cheat" by spending more then a week on a paper, even a term paper or spending longer studying for test.

I still don't have spell-check on my word processor. Even after re-installing windows.

In other news I spent a night at an old friends house. I didn't sleep because there were no cal-mags. I got drunk for the first time. It wasn't that great. It didn't even get me to sleep. It was ok but barely worth the calories and certainly not the money. Despite the fact that I'm 21 my parents still would get pissed if they found out.



My boyfriend has been devoting a lot of his time to trying to convince people online to vote for Chuck Penachio (sp?) in the primaries. He doesn't see this as a lost cause. Chuck Penachio openly supports the ERA. Nuff said.