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worryingly jolly batman ([personal profile] labellementeuse) wrote2007-01-02 03:47 pm

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Also, I'm having another stab at my enrolment, and - I have never been affected by timetabling clases before. Never. But ENGL313, the class I could study Buffy and Coraline for? Clashes with my poetry class, the ONLY class I am absolutely committed to in the first semester, the one that I actually got of my ass and sent a portfolio in for. And not clashes in a half-an-hour or one-hour a week way; oh no. Clashes in a 2-5 vs 3-5 on thursday afternoons kind of way. Siiiiigh. So I'm thinking, maybe the 20th Century Novel class instead, but. :(

And that's bad enough (and heart-breaking, because I want to leave this stupid city at the end of next year, and does VUW have anything even nearly that cool? uh. NO. So either I stick around til half way through 2008 which I just don't want to do, or... I don't take this course, and that is just NOT an option.) But then I go to see my second semester classes, and sure enough, Postcolonial Literature (which I didn't even want to take that much, only more than I wanted to take anything else; second semester English classes suck balls, frankly) clashes with Philosophical Logic, the only class I was really committed to in the second semester. I could take NZ lit - it does feature Katherine Mansfield, Denis Glover and James Baxter, who I all love, and only Frank Sargeson who bores me - but... NZ lit? Really?

To top it off, biomedical ethics, literally the ONLY second year phil class I can bring myself to take in the second semester (the other options are Greek Philosophy, Cognitive Philosophy that's all about animals, Philosophy of Art - no thank you - and Cyberspace, Cyborgs, and the Meaning of Life. Which sounds interesting but... come on. I know the Three Laws of Robotics. I read science fiction. I watch genre television. I've seen 2001: A Space Odyssey. I refuse to believe they can tell me anything I don't already know. Plus, it clashes with NZ lit, which I think i'm going to have to take.) anyway, Bioethics clashes with NZ lit too. I don't wanna take Greek Philosophy, guys, but I also don't wanna take Eighteenth Century Worlds. SOMEBODY SOLVE MY PROBLEMS IN A WAY THAT DOESN'T REQUIRE ME TO MAKE MY WHOLE FIRST SEMESTER ENGLISH AND MY WHOLE SECOND SEMESTER PHILOSOPHY, or alternatively three third year papers in one semester, because I'm pretty sure they frown on that.

[identity profile] cabaiste84.livejournal.com 2007-01-02 07:57 am (UTC)(link)
I hated Passage to India.

Oh well.

[identity profile] nzlemming.livejournal.com 2007-01-02 09:45 am (UTC)(link)
It's fucking boring, for one. God I hated that book when I did English

Of, course, you weren't even born then, but I'm sure the book is still as boring.

[identity profile] disturbed-kiwi.livejournal.com 2007-01-02 10:03 am (UTC)(link)
Are we talking about the same book? The Marabar Caves and all? God, I found watching the culture shock and miscommunications and politics fascinating.

Ah well.

[identity profile] nzlemming.livejournal.com 2007-01-02 10:08 am (UTC)(link)
EM Forster, that's the one.

[identity profile] nzlemming.livejournal.com 2007-01-02 11:03 am (UTC)(link)
Are you sure you're from West Auckland?
;-)