Okay so Sid Vicious. Not THE Sid Vicious, but my hamster named Sid Vicious. He likes to do this thing where he lays under his hamster wheel in a little ball and breathes really slowly and appears to be dead or dying. Then several hours or a day later, as though to say "just kidding" he returns to his usual psychopathic self.
This has happen five times. The thing keeps dying and coming back to life. The latest was today. Yesterday my mom told me Sid was probably not going to last the night. I said something to the effect of "meh" because this hamster has been living to spite me. He's already 3, and hamsters are only supposed to live to be 2. He's a bastard. He likes to draw blood. He's loud as hell at night and he hangs from his cage like a spider and gnaws on the metal with his horrible yellow snagletooth.
But anyway, my mom goes into my room this morning and the bastard is running around and most of his food is already gone from the time she refilled it last night (and she gives him A LOT of food). So, in effect, I am harboring a demon hamster in my room that is able to die and come back to life. He's going to do to me what Freddy Krueger did to Johnny Depp in Nightmare on Elm Street. One night, I'll be watching HBO then my bed will swallow me and blood will spout out of it and the damn hamster will be laughing.
Need a visual? Fast-forward to 0:36
I don't know why the Pirates of the Caribbean music is playing in the background in this youtube video.
Now for classes....
I always scoff when I'm forced to do self-reflective stuff for my classes...you know, the obligatory "describe yourself in a few words." Or the ever-infuriating, "where do you see yourself in five years." I hate those questions. I don't even know what I'm doing tomorrow, let alone five years from now, and I don't think sitting on the couch watching reruns of Sanford and Son counts as a good answer.
Also, for social media, I'm probably going to have to do some scrubbing of this blog. But I'd need a full time staff working round the clock to get every profanity and snide comment out of my posts. So we'll just have to see how that goes. Feministing's allowed to say fuck. Why can't I?
I'll probably just end up making a new blog or scrubbing my other blog on politics, because this blog has no real structure. I just post whatever I feel like talking about.
But I'm pretty confident that I'm going to love that class and gain useful stuff out of it. I've had the professor before and she's awesome.
Oh, and math. "Complete this sequence...3, 1902, 92, 200, 549, ?" I think an acceptable answer to these things should be "why the hell does anyone care."
I don't want to put down math. It's necessary for some people. And a person's accomplishments in math should never be diminished. Bad things would happen if our architects didn't know anything about geometry. But I'm an English and Journalism major. Percentages and basic arithmetic are all I really need. Ever. I can confidently say that, in my life, I will never have to rattle off the Fibonacci sequence.
I get the whole, "this is not about numbers, its about learning logic and problem solving skills," but the kind of logic I need care about is something that can be learned outside of math. I've already had to do this all through high school and before that. I've gotten all the problem-solving skills that I can out of it.
But I still think everyone in a traditional liberal arts college in the U.S. should be required to take English classes. No matter what you do, you need to be able to write and think critically about a text. A lot of people's grades would be trashed if they hadn't taken research writing and whatever the intro class is called. And English is one of the few departments that get really good student feedback from required courses.
In my major, I'll never need science either but at least they give you a range of things to pick from. I did Dynamic Earth and Exploring the Universe, AKA rocks and space. Little to no math, and it was stuff that I thought was interesting.
For people in a field that involves no math, I think they should be able to pick between taking a social science and a math. I would gladly have taken another politics class instead of math. And there's probably people that feel the opposite. The arts classes can be put in there too. Some people just don't care about the arts, and it will never be required of them. So go let them take another class in a field they care about.
Side note...I would have loved to take a decent art history class, but my professor was terrible. She insisted on telling us every single scrap of her accomplishments.She used a powerpoint, and it usually took her 5 minutes in the beginning of the class to figure out the computer. And she was tenured, so all of the bad reviews in the world wouldn't make her change her class. It was awful.
I think the mandated philosophy/ religious studies thing needs to stay. A lot of majors require you to read theoretical texts and these classes serve as a pretty good intro to that kind of reading. I think health is kind of stupid. We all had to take it in high school. We're all pretty much set in whatever habits we have, and will stick with them until we personally feel the need to change them. I don't think a class is going to do that. For example, the idea that smoking and drinking are bad for you has been drilled into our heads since preschool and people do it anyway.
Those are all of the required classes I can think of. I know there are more, but I guess none of those ones pissed me off enough to write about.
But tenure,that's something that irritates me. It's a great concept, and it provides job security, but if a professor is tenured and getting really bad evaluations and totally sucks on ratemyprofessor.com then something needs to be done. For example, one of my Spanish professors was at least five minutes late to almost every single class. She was never prepared or organized. She just wasn't a good professor, but her evaluations didn't matter because she was tenured. I'm not saying she should have been fired or something, but someone with authority needs to tell her she needs to change.
Oh, and also for some reason http://movie-ozone.com has put a link to my blog under "fellow bloggers," so go check them out. I put this in another post, but people continue to find my blog through them so here's a thank you.
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