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Oct. 30th, 2007 08:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cherryMy paid account ran out the other day, and, seriously: Oh my goodness people, since when were there adds all over LiveJournal?
I'm taking a religious studies class this term to fill in a humanities electives requirement. I thought it would be a neat way to get my thoughts out of the scientific box. There was a Buddhism class I was really interested in taking, but it conflicted with one of my math classes, so I ended up in Taoism.
WORST IDEA EVER. There's a lot of really neat information in the course, a window looking out over the world view of a different culture, but the way it's taught drives me up the wall. There's no structure, we have no idea how we're going to be evaluated or what we'll be tested on, we were told flat out that the average would be 70, and our marks are going to have nothing to do with how well, objectively, we know the material.
Right now, I am working on a presentation for the class. Through a series of events which don't need reviewing at this juncture, I have ended up doing both a presentation and a paper on how Taoism is like physics.
Taoism? Is not like physics.
If physics was like religion, I would not be taking this as a complimentary studies elective.
taoism ≠ physics, people.
I'm taking a religious studies class this term to fill in a humanities electives requirement. I thought it would be a neat way to get my thoughts out of the scientific box. There was a Buddhism class I was really interested in taking, but it conflicted with one of my math classes, so I ended up in Taoism.
WORST IDEA EVER. There's a lot of really neat information in the course, a window looking out over the world view of a different culture, but the way it's taught drives me up the wall. There's no structure, we have no idea how we're going to be evaluated or what we'll be tested on, we were told flat out that the average would be 70, and our marks are going to have nothing to do with how well, objectively, we know the material.
Right now, I am working on a presentation for the class. Through a series of events which don't need reviewing at this juncture, I have ended up doing both a presentation and a paper on how Taoism is like physics.
Taoism? Is not like physics.
If physics was like religion, I would not be taking this as a complimentary studies elective.
taoism ≠ physics, people.
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Date: 2007-10-31 08:24 pm (UTC)My brother and sister freaked out on me for saying that some programs have lighter workloads than others. I still believe they're worthwhile, I just don't believe that they have an equivalent workload to what I'm working with.