- My PSC teacher bought 8 pizzas and showed a video of a comedian for our class today. That guy rules.
- I wrote a 6 page paper comparing Faulkner to O'Connor today for a class on those two authors. I still haven't read any of their writings.
- A kid in my first class this morning hasn't missed a single class period at all this semester. I'm pretty sure he's a freshman or possibly a sophmore. He said something about paying for the eductaion, so why not get it? "Silly, silly, silly!" - guy from Frosty.
College is NOT about paying for an education. It's about paying for a paper that says you're educated. Certainly, you will learn things while at college. You will not learn things that justify paying 5k a semester. The 5k is for the paper.
Some might say that this is cynical, and I'm sure it is, but I don't think I'm wrong. I took a Calculus class that I don't remember a single thing from. The same with Geology, Biology, Weather, that computer course, and some of those SOC courses. I remember some from History, and some from poli-sci, a lot from my first Literature class.
Mostly, what I've "learned" from college is to write better papers, and that was worth a good bulk of what I've spent. So I guess you could say that you're paying for skills, not knowledge, and that works, but it doesn't explain why I should go to a "statistics in psychology" class. I took it for the credits, nothing more.
I know I've said all this before. It's finals week, though, and my contempt for this place is growing by the hour. Check in a week; I should be all jolly by then.
- TV is having a bunch of game shows on recently. They all look the same, but the great (and it is great) thing about these game shows are the hosts they are using. Bob Saget would have been enough, but they tapped the perfection that is William Shatner, a man so bizzare that his persona has become a parrot of a parody of himself. And now they've got Penn from Penn and Teller hosting a show. This is like the apocalypse of game show horror, and we can only blame Regis Philbin for starting it all. The thing is, people are watching this stuff.
- William Shatner and Bob Saget hosting game shows.... IN THE SAME MONTH. Christmas came early this year! Naturally, I will not watch any of them. Just the fact they are there is enough. The only way this could be any better is if Chuck Norris started hosting one called "A Fistful of Dollars."
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