jacques and the wolf

[iceinyourmusic]

1.
Q: Who's afraid of the big bad Lacan, six o'clock in the evening?
A: Absolutely no one. They had to move us into a larger classroom. The exam will be 30 true/false statements, god bless science geeks teaching literature.

2.
I haven't been into the whole eating thing at all lately. It feels strange: not unnatural or unhealthy, as I'm sure it'll pass, but still disquieting, somehow.

3.
What's wrong with my friendslist when Ms. Alexander Spears admits that she has a drinking problem and seeks treatment and I have to find out about it from tabloid headlines? That's right, nothing whatsoever.

4.
Propp and Greimas
sitting in a tree,
K-I-S-S-I-N-G...

Comments

[mandysbitch.livejournal.com]

The exam will be 30 true/false statements, god bless science geeks teaching literature.

You had a true/false exam on Lacan? You're kidding me! That's very bizarre.

[leksa.livejournal.com]

You had a true/false exam on Lacan?

Will have. In a couple of months. And, hum, yeah. Think half the class (incl. me) peed their pants when the teacher told us. But it turns out that he has all kinds of Theories regarding humanities and the study of (several of which might actually have done me lots of good had I heard them at an earlier point during my *cough*academic career*cough*), the one in action right here being that it's too easy to get by without studying as long as you're a decent writer (also, says he, he's "not interested in how stupid or smart we are, only in how well we read the books") - so, in the exam, he only wants to see whether we're able to say "I know that Lacan said A, B, and C, but not D, in the year 1959" or not. (Which, well, is perfectly fine by me, because I will totally kick ass at this. Theories aside. ;))

We'll see.

And I do apologize for the sentence structure which seems to have died somewhere in the middle of all that.

[mandysbitch.livejournal.com]

not interested in how stupid or smart we are, only in how well we read the books

Huh. Okaaay...

I sympathise to an extent. It seems that lecturers are always trying to figure out ways to make the students read the books. We gave them a quiz on the readings every five weeks and that worked quite well. But it was like one paragraph answers - "explain the difference between media and cultural imperialism" and so on.

But you know, you'd get the odd smarty to whom media was like a second language. And s/he could swing a decent grade without doing the readings just by purely knowing enought to get by. I never had a problem with it. In general they were still better students than the rest of them and I found it much easier to think of them with degrees than the ones who did the readings and still didn't have a clue what the concepts were about.