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[theinevitable]

yeah. I mean.

If I don't pass this class I'll have to retake it next year. And that'll kind of fuck up my schedule, because it's the prerequisite for things I need to take for my major. Oops.

Also it just pisses me off that I thought I'd have at worst a C, because I had screwed up a bunch of quizzes early on, but I came out of the midterm feeling good... ends up I got a D on the exam. Shit.

this happens to me way too often.

[Doc]

No matter how well or how poorly you did in college, it will be amazingly funny that you cared about grades at all in a couple of years.

I may not have enough distance yet but I have to disagree to a certain extent. If my grades were slightly worse I would have had a hell of a time getting an honours supervisor and therefore getting the job I have now and etc. etc. etc. Grades aren't everything but if you don't give two shits then what are you doing there in the first place? Go do something you like instead.

[wombat]

Yes, but don't forget caring about grades isn't always an indication of doing something you like or giving two shits. Caring about grades is not the same as caring about learning.

[Doc]

Oh of course not. It's just when I hear people around uni saying 'I don't care if I fail this subject' or whatever I think 'if you don't care, why are you doing it?'. I just can't imagine wasting my time like that.

[KeithHernandez]

Because it is a course you are required to take to get a degree in something that will allow you to do something you like?

[Arachno-capitalist]

Oh of course not. It's just when I hear people around uni saying 'I don't care if I fail this subject' or whatever I think 'if you don't care, why are you doing it?'. I just can't imagine wasting my time like that.

For as long as Ive been taking it, I have been completely indifferent to how I performed in German. A foreign language is required for graduation, but I do not imagine a likely future scenario where I will really need to know german. The only person who wins in this transaction is language professors, who would otherwise not have as many jobs if languages weren't required.

[Ben-San]

For as long as Ive been taking it, I have been completely indifferent to how I performed in German. A foreign language is required for graduation, but I do not imagine a likely future scenario where I will really need to know german.

But can you imagine one where you will really wish you knew it? There's a difference, and as long as you're taking German why not try to learn the damn language?

Don't come crying to me when you wish you knew what that hot chick named Astrid was talking about with her friends, or when you fall into a parallel universe where the Nazis won WWII and you need to pass long enough to find that universe's equivalent of the professor who accidentally sent you there in the first place.

[theinevitable]

I am alternating between thinking I can totally catch up, and thinking that I should do something like... drop the class and change my major.

I am kind of kidding and kind of serious. Hm hm hm.

this week, I am going to:
read 9 chapters about the Great Leap Forward for a quiz,
study tons of logic for my logic quiz,
study for my midterm exam on methods in cognitive science,
read several chapters for my Language Development exam,
plan/pack/leave for NYC for the College Music Journal conference.

Scary. Oh well. I'll get it all done and then spend a few days being stressed out in new york, riding the subway around and seeing rock concerts. feeling like I should be here, doing work.

[Doc]

Because it is a course you are required to take to get a degree in something that will allow you to do something you like?

That will always suck but if it's allowing you to do something down the line you should still care how you do because you care about that ultimate goal. That's how I used to get myself through crappy subjects anyway.

Ben-San has convinced me, I'm going to go learn me some german. Damn alternate-universe Jerries.

[theinevitable]

this is the same reason I'm taking sanskrit next semester.

[Doc]

Bitches Love Sanscrit.

Alternately:

Damn alternate-universe Krishna!

[AugustWest]

Bitches Love Sanscrit.

You can hell of use your mad Sanskrit skillz in yoga class.  And yoga chicks are the best.

Flexibility.

[pmcd9]

study tons of logic for my logic quiz

Logic you say?  Have I ever told my logic joke here?  Well here goes.

Down on the farm cousins Ricky and Cooter were really struggling.  One day Ricky says to Cooter, "We got to change our lives.  I'll tell you what we gonna do.  Tomorrow morning we goin' down to that college and get ourselves enrolled in school."  And so they did.

The next morning they are in the lobby of the counselors office waiting to be seen by a counselor.  The counselor calls for Ricky and he goes in first to speak to the counselor.

He sits down in the office where the counselor tells him he needs to take classes in math, science and logic.  "Logic?"  Ricky says "What's that?" "Well" replied the counselor, "the best way to explain logic is to give you an example.  Let me ask you a question, do you own a lawnmower?"  "Yes sir, I do."  "Logic tells me that if you own a lawnmower, you must have a lawn.  Is that true?"  "Yes sir."  "If you have a lawn logic tells me that you have a house."  "Right you are." says Ricky.  "Do you own your house?" the counselor continued.  "Yes sir."  "Logic tells me that men who own their own homes are usually married.  "Are you married?"  "Been married to Betty Lou for 12 years."  "Alright then, logic tells me that you are not a homosexual."  "You're goddamn right about that!" Ricky exclaimed.  "Well there you have it." said the counselor.  "Well I'll be, you figgered all that out with logic, that's pretty dang slick."

A few moments later Ricky was back in the lobby.  Right away Cooter asked "Well what did he tell ya'?"  "Well" Ricky proudly said feeling smarter already "he said we need to take classes in math, science and logic."  "Logic?" Cooter says "What's that?"  "Let me explain it to you.  Do you got a lawnmower?"  "No Rick I don't."  "You're queer ain'tcha?"

Thank you, thank you.

[Choop]

can'd for one of my favorite jokes

today i'm gonna go to bed at quarter past two AM because jesus it's late

[theinevitable]

my friend got pretty fed up with me when I wrote out this incredibly long statement in the system of notation we are learning which said "there exists a thing, such that it is a house, and it is in new orleans, and it is called the rising sun, and it is the only thing such that it is a house, and it is in new orleans, and it is called the rising sun."