Booooooored
Current Sounds: A recorded lecture on Chinese history
For my class, my teacher isn't in town today so I was charged with bringing in the movie, playing it, and taking it home. Going from a class filled with about 80% of the students, I'm now the only one in the room after people learned that not only was attendance not being taken, but the video/lecture is incredibly boring. So, I'm pretty much alone in the room right now with the movie playing, debating what I should do.
I have another class after this and have to submit a paper, so going home isn't an option. Sitting here in a large classroom and watching a movie on a 9 foot screen is also not terribly appealing. Have I mentioned that it's really boring, too? It's an important fact.
At the very least, I'm over halfway through 'Sputnik Sweetheart' now, a really good book. This is thanks to the fact that I've been reading through some of my classes.. yes, it's bad, but the class is so horribly boring. I need to finish half the book by Tuesday and entirely by next Thursday, then I have another week to read an even longer book (about 300+/- pages, I think) by the next week ('Kafka on the Shore', also by Murakami, Haruki). It's not the reading that I'm terribly worried about, it's more all the other stuff that I need to do over the next few days. It, frankly, feels a bit too much. But that's pretty much what happens every single semester, isn't it? A massive amount of work that needs to be done in an obscene amount of time, you do it, and then wait another 6 months (or 4, depending on the semester) and do it all over again.
So, work on my 6-7 page paper tonight (probably won't finish it, though), work on the 10 page one this weekend (must get done this weekend, due Tuesday), do another 2 page one probably on Monday or Wednesday night, then work on the 5-6 page one next weekend. Sometime after that I need to perfect (read do) my Japanese presentation and prepare the oral component, and then get studying for my 2 tests and 3 finals.
Oh, and I need to find a job. That'll have to fit in there somewhere.
I think it's worth knowing that the most important things one can learn in school are not the facts or the information that I'm earning a degree to supposedly take with me through life. No, not at all. Those things are interesting and quite possibly useful (and Japanese better be, considering the time I've spent learning it), but can generally be found in a book somewhere if you ever forget. What is useful is learning to manage time and I'd say, even more so, the ability to write. It's absolutely imperitive to learn to write well (and ideally under pressure and a time limit). Regardless of what subject you're studying, the ability to write is how you'll be judged, and ultimately what carries much of your grade.
But this is just a random rambling because I have too much free time and this lecture is really, really boring.
I should probably go, read more of my book, and then grab the tape and run to my last class. Gotta get home to lock myself up and do work. Yaaay.
Anyway, off I go. Ideally I'll have some time for sane activities this weekend, but we'll see about that.
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