Academia.

The bane of my existence.

What really annoys me is the wide variety of grades that professors give. Remember those good old days of high school where the correlation of grades in a course load was generally 1? In college it's practically 0. Okay, realistically, it's more like 0.8, but whatever, the point is that it has dropped significantly. ALL college courses are harder than high school, so the courses that are hard to begin with are just magnified. Knowledge is good, obviously, but how is learning about the recently included mukims of Bandar Seri Begawan going to help me understand economics? The only reasoning I can come up with is that my international relations track includes Southeast Asia, and I suppose there's always the possibility of expansion in Brunei, but COME ON. These classes are interesting, but I don't want them to count against me if I don't understand religion among the Javanese, or the disappearance of Hinduism on the island everywhere except among the Tengger. Point is, I am hoping one day these classes will help in some way. So, for now, I'll believe that Strauss and Howe are right in the way history will one day repeat itself. One day.

Also, the requirements needed to graduate are annoying, especially now, when I am looking at the classes I need to take to fulfill my majors. Half of them aren't offered in the fall, and the other half all have the same time slots. Who's bright idea was it to offer half of the required classes at the same time?! And also, I believe that professors should have their syllibi made readily available, and not just to the students presently taking the courses. It would make our lives so much easier deciding which classes to take together in a semester. It is especially beneficial in the later half of college, when most people are done with the prerequisites and are beginning to take graduate level courses. SIGH. I guess for now, the most I can hope for is I won't die from the only course load for the fall that fits in some sort of schedule. GAH.

Unedited and a mess, sorry.