And back to the grind I go.
Sep. 3rd, 2008 04:34 pmHad my first class of the new semester today.
Sociology of Emotions.
You'd think it'd be a fun class, an interesting class, especially at the 400-level (the highest offered at the undergraduate level) but you know what?
You'd be wrong.
I'm sure that some of the material is interesting and thought-provoking, but my prof is pretty much the dullest lady you'll meet. Maybe not on the level of Ben Stein, but what she lacks in utter boringness, she makes up for in her psychotherapy. She's a therapist and any time anyone said anything a little odd in terms of their thoughts about emotions and feelings, and what's the difference, she immediately started questioning them and pushing them to look deeper and stuff.
... okay, so I don't have any issues with therapy or delving inside of myself, but not in a classroom, not with 25 other people listening to any admissions or breakthroughs or what-have-you, and I felt VERY uncomfortable listening as she prodded this poor woman in the class to explain all her financial details with regards to tuition and her family. It was VERY odd.
Oh. And in the first three minutes of class, she outlawed laptops and cell phones. She had watched me set up my laptop, get up, plug it in, and waited for me to sit down and boot up before she specifically outlawed laptops.
Yeah, TOTALLY OUT OF THERE.
Goodbye, Sociology of Emotions. Hello, Material Culture.
Sociology of Emotions.
You'd think it'd be a fun class, an interesting class, especially at the 400-level (the highest offered at the undergraduate level) but you know what?
You'd be wrong.
I'm sure that some of the material is interesting and thought-provoking, but my prof is pretty much the dullest lady you'll meet. Maybe not on the level of Ben Stein, but what she lacks in utter boringness, she makes up for in her psychotherapy. She's a therapist and any time anyone said anything a little odd in terms of their thoughts about emotions and feelings, and what's the difference, she immediately started questioning them and pushing them to look deeper and stuff.
... okay, so I don't have any issues with therapy or delving inside of myself, but not in a classroom, not with 25 other people listening to any admissions or breakthroughs or what-have-you, and I felt VERY uncomfortable listening as she prodded this poor woman in the class to explain all her financial details with regards to tuition and her family. It was VERY odd.
Oh. And in the first three minutes of class, she outlawed laptops and cell phones. She had watched me set up my laptop, get up, plug it in, and waited for me to sit down and boot up before she specifically outlawed laptops.
Yeah, TOTALLY OUT OF THERE.
Goodbye, Sociology of Emotions. Hello, Material Culture.