Super Fudgin' College Post
So it seems the motif for my sophomore year at Drexel is Superfluous.
So many of my Professor feel that they need to put their own unique spin on their classes by adding something unnecessary and nonsequitor. It seems to always be teachers that teach a shitty required class too. This term I've got an Art History teacher that wants us to read a portion of the Canterbury Tales and write a paper on it. Why? We're studying proto-Renaissance to about the 19th century. His idea is that we'll get to learn what the mindset was of a person in the 14th century. Who the fuck cares? Do you want to know what a person from the 14th Century is thinking:
"Gee, I hope I don't get the Black Plague. It doesn't really matter because my life expectancy is 32, thus rendering me middle aged at 16. You know what would be great? Literacy."
This isn't old English class this is Art History.
Fuck them I have important shit to do like the thing that is costing $40,000 a year.
I also have this Drawing teacher who had me go out and get sumi ink and brush. I looked down at the list when she gave me it, looked back up at her, squinted at her, and exclaimed, "Hey, you're not Japanese! You're jsut some dirtie Anarcho-Hippie-Punk that went to a school in Washington state that had no grades." I really don't want to draw, let alone spend $108 on shit I'll use only for this class, and during a time that will possibly make me miss the beginning to Heroes and Lost.
This is Introduction to Drawing not WASPy girl claws for culture due to her shame of her own milquetoast Heritage.
This of course builds upon the History Teacher who thought that 20th Century History meant, 20th Century British Women's Rights.
Thank god I'm not in the Department that Graphic Design and the more "fine arts" are in, having to drop absurd amounts of dough on classes taught by fucking Peckerwoods--in the truest sense.
I had Lighting today and it ruled because unlike those other teachers every single thing my teacher told me in the class had a story from him on a job using or bewaring something he was describing. That and film is like a trillion times cooler than Art History and Drawing--it always will because in a sense it's such a blue collar sorta inclusive laborious medium--and everyone gets hard over working class ideas.
Fuck this I'm jsut going to learn how to draw Marvel characters from my new Teacher Professor Stan Lee, he rules he always starts a lesson with "Greetings Heroes," or "Excelsior!" Then I get to leanr how to draw Mr. Fantastic paying his taxes or some shit.
So many of my Professor feel that they need to put their own unique spin on their classes by adding something unnecessary and nonsequitor. It seems to always be teachers that teach a shitty required class too. This term I've got an Art History teacher that wants us to read a portion of the Canterbury Tales and write a paper on it. Why? We're studying proto-Renaissance to about the 19th century. His idea is that we'll get to learn what the mindset was of a person in the 14th century. Who the fuck cares? Do you want to know what a person from the 14th Century is thinking:
"Gee, I hope I don't get the Black Plague. It doesn't really matter because my life expectancy is 32, thus rendering me middle aged at 16. You know what would be great? Literacy."
This isn't old English class this is Art History.
Fuck them I have important shit to do like the thing that is costing $40,000 a year.
I also have this Drawing teacher who had me go out and get sumi ink and brush. I looked down at the list when she gave me it, looked back up at her, squinted at her, and exclaimed, "Hey, you're not Japanese! You're jsut some dirtie Anarcho-Hippie-Punk that went to a school in Washington state that had no grades." I really don't want to draw, let alone spend $108 on shit I'll use only for this class, and during a time that will possibly make me miss the beginning to Heroes and Lost.
This is Introduction to Drawing not WASPy girl claws for culture due to her shame of her own milquetoast Heritage.
This of course builds upon the History Teacher who thought that 20th Century History meant, 20th Century British Women's Rights.
Thank god I'm not in the Department that Graphic Design and the more "fine arts" are in, having to drop absurd amounts of dough on classes taught by fucking Peckerwoods--in the truest sense.
I had Lighting today and it ruled because unlike those other teachers every single thing my teacher told me in the class had a story from him on a job using or bewaring something he was describing. That and film is like a trillion times cooler than Art History and Drawing--it always will because in a sense it's such a blue collar sorta inclusive laborious medium--and everyone gets hard over working class ideas.
Fuck this I'm jsut going to learn how to draw Marvel characters from my new Teacher Professor Stan Lee, he rules he always starts a lesson with "Greetings Heroes," or "Excelsior!" Then I get to leanr how to draw Mr. Fantastic paying his taxes or some shit.
posted by ESN-TNS at 6:19 PM
3 Comments:
YOu made me laugh my ass off with this one. I have a degree in Art History. And one in Fine Art. And one in History proper. What a bunch of self-important tools those people can be. Good that some people can see through it. Because the majority buy into that exclusive "anything that vaguely interests me can be useful to the class, I will mould their little brains" crap.
Keep on keeping on!
dood!
watch "Art School Confidential."
Cinematography (LIghting) was the greatest class for me in Film Schyoool. My professor was a working DP in Tinselfuck and knew his shit. From him I learned how to SUBTRACT light, rather than add it. Single most important thing in photography, if you ax me. But you didn't. yea?
yeah kid all my teachers are adjuncts, my lighting teacher was telling us some cr00sh shit he did for the simple life and loled in my mind
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