I just remembered the worst college course I ever took
Sept 17, 2022 21:19:20 GMT -5
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Post by Weirdraptor mini™ on Sept 17, 2022 21:19:20 GMT -5
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I remember Szalbark making a topic about terrible college experiences some years ago, but at the time, this memory was as buried as it could get, because I think I just mentally blocked it as hard as I could.
Anyway, back when I was in college, I think this was the exact midway point, so it would have been 2006. I signed up for a "Popular Literature" course, thinking it'd be an easy A. I mean, Popular Literature. I've already read all the essentials in this regard. I figured I might have to reread a few things to sharpen my memory, but what could go wrong?
So, the professor walked in and started talking about global warming.
Me:
It turns out, this was actually a course about how Popular Literature effects ideas and the way people think, and the professor picked this issue as the springboard.
"Okay, fair enough," I thought. "I can see how works. I can easily find a topic where the prevailing mindset about it was encourage by a popular movie or something. This is completely doab-"
The Professor: "If we get started right now, we still have approximately 30 years to save the planet from the human race. I intend to teach all of you how to change the world through your writing. It is imperative that we all do our part before it's too late, which is why we're getting started now in the classroom."
So, my Spring semester that year was spent learning how to write propaganda. No, we did not examine much in the way of popular literature. We read New York times articles, watched the news, watched educational videos about social issues, read essays and papers about how unfair and cruel the world is, and maybe, if we were lucky that week, took a look at an episode of a cartoon which expressed environment themes. When an episode of Spongebob is the highlight of class that week, there's a problem.
Not a single one of my classmates liked this class and over half of them dumped it before midterms. Those who stubbornly stuck it out... well, we were miserable. When doing anything related to this class, we wavered somewhere between wanting to die, and wishing things on our professor no human being should ever wish on another.
I survived and somehow walked away with a B- despite giving up and winging my big project and not studying for the final exam. No, I don't know how I did it, either.
I remember Szalbark making a topic about terrible college experiences some years ago, but at the time, this memory was as buried as it could get, because I think I just mentally blocked it as hard as I could.
Anyway, back when I was in college, I think this was the exact midway point, so it would have been 2006. I signed up for a "Popular Literature" course, thinking it'd be an easy A. I mean, Popular Literature. I've already read all the essentials in this regard. I figured I might have to reread a few things to sharpen my memory, but what could go wrong?
So, the professor walked in and started talking about global warming.
Me:
It turns out, this was actually a course about how Popular Literature effects ideas and the way people think, and the professor picked this issue as the springboard.
"Okay, fair enough," I thought. "I can see how works. I can easily find a topic where the prevailing mindset about it was encourage by a popular movie or something. This is completely doab-"
The Professor: "If we get started right now, we still have approximately 30 years to save the planet from the human race. I intend to teach all of you how to change the world through your writing. It is imperative that we all do our part before it's too late, which is why we're getting started now in the classroom."
So, my Spring semester that year was spent learning how to write propaganda. No, we did not examine much in the way of popular literature. We read New York times articles, watched the news, watched educational videos about social issues, read essays and papers about how unfair and cruel the world is, and maybe, if we were lucky that week, took a look at an episode of a cartoon which expressed environment themes. When an episode of Spongebob is the highlight of class that week, there's a problem.
Not a single one of my classmates liked this class and over half of them dumped it before midterms. Those who stubbornly stuck it out... well, we were miserable. When doing anything related to this class, we wavered somewhere between wanting to die, and wishing things on our professor no human being should ever wish on another.
I survived and somehow walked away with a B- despite giving up and winging my big project and not studying for the final exam. No, I don't know how I did it, either.