Thursday, November 1, 2007

Update 3

Hi,
I am sorry for being lazy. Developing new habits is not so easy for me especially when I am not sure the habit I am getting into is a good one or a bad one, since I have been doing this so infrequently I dont know if I enjoy this or think its a waste of time. I guess time will tell...

Life is really slow and sad when you promise yourself you will not party and actually keep it. Well I didnt tell you guys about my promise right? So here goes... I had taken World Cultures Africa last semester which was when I was stupid enough to try thinking like white kids and chose something that I thought was interesting and I would enjoy. Bad idea!! Not that the lectures were bad and the prof. and the TA were both really nice and good speakers which was pretty useful in the sense that it could have been worse than it actually was. But the point is the theme was overtly depressing, Africa, subjects covered included diseases, female circumcision, politics, neo traditional societies, war, etc. All important and go a far way in defining the state of Africa but not very exciting. Especially nothing like the movie Blood Diamond which was my iniial inspiration anyways. To make things worse my professor was the head of anthropology department at NYU and has been teaching for over 40 years, he was convinced that his subject was not taught through exam. That implies that we had to write papers almost all the time. Something, that you are aware, I detest.
So ending up, I wrote my final paper 3000 words twice but was not happy with it and ended up deletign my files thinking I will screw my way out of class, as I knew he was not teaching this semester and I could easily lie saying I had turned it in. So I dug the hole even deeper. Recently my professor contacted me and told me to turn them in, so I promised myself no partying till papers are done. So that was that.

Thats all for today,
Peace

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