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Feb. 8th, 2006 07:48 am
General-purpose post.
Well, for the second semester in a row, I've lost steam already.
It usually takes a month or so to go from being excited to be back in classes to bored and wanting it over, but this time I hit that place in about two weeks. I keep telling myself it's only three-and-a-half months until it's done with, but that really doesn't help when I'm feeling incredibly overwhelmed.
The readings for History of Modern China are really dense. The instructor's methodology isn't something I like -- he's all about discussing the text readings more than lecturing, and while I approve of that approach in a literature class, it seems out of place in a history class. If all we need is to read the text, then let me go home and do it.
Asian American Experience is both better than and just as bad as I'd feared. Depending on the day, the instructor is either a fair and reasoned lecturer, or a rabid crusader against white culture. I know that's not his real personality, but it's the flavor of his lectures.
There are elements of my life depressing me, but that's not a post for the public eye, this time. Suffice to say it will pass.
It usually takes a month or so to go from being excited to be back in classes to bored and wanting it over, but this time I hit that place in about two weeks. I keep telling myself it's only three-and-a-half months until it's done with, but that really doesn't help when I'm feeling incredibly overwhelmed.
The readings for History of Modern China are really dense. The instructor's methodology isn't something I like -- he's all about discussing the text readings more than lecturing, and while I approve of that approach in a literature class, it seems out of place in a history class. If all we need is to read the text, then let me go home and do it.
Asian American Experience is both better than and just as bad as I'd feared. Depending on the day, the instructor is either a fair and reasoned lecturer, or a rabid crusader against white culture. I know that's not his real personality, but it's the flavor of his lectures.
There are elements of my life depressing me, but that's not a post for the public eye, this time. Suffice to say it will pass.