Good ole fashion rant time...

today's topic: The stupidity of some university classes and requirements

re·quire·ment ( P ) Pronunciation Key (r-kwrmnt)n.
1. Something that is required; a necessity.
2. Something obligatory; a prerequisite.

Apparently to be an english major with a double minor in history and drama I am required to have knowledge of science...excuse me not just science but a science that has a lab component. Whom ever decided that proper grammar, spelling, punctuation and formulating a thesis and cosine, tangents and graph paper go together is quite the idiot. So to be clever and to rid oneself of 3 of the required 6 natural science credits I take computer science, easy enough. After this it is impossible...which brings me to sub-rant number 1...Geography:

ge·og·ra·phy ( P ) Pronunciation Key (j-gr-f)n. pl. ge·og·ra·phies
1. The study of the earth and its features and of the distribution of life on the earth, including human life and the effects of human activity.
2. The physical characteristics, especially the surface features, of an area.
3. A book on geography.
4. An ordered arrangement of constituent elements: charting a geography of the mind.

Georaphy consists of placements of areas on a map according to my acedemic advisor. No where in the conversation did logrithmic equations, cosine functions....to put it bluntly no where in teh entire conversation was I informed that math was a major staple of geography. I hate math...I was all fine with it until they stuck in those damned letters, I mean truthfully math is supposed to deal with numbers...why the hell did the letters get to join in on the "fun"...anyway back to the original topic. Geography, why must I learn how to make a map when I can almost gaurantee that the exact map has already been created...and then what baffles me more is that to create said map I must refer to 4 different maps to gain numbers to fill in the place of those pesky letters in my freaking equation. Then finally I have solved one equation to take the sum of that number divide by the square root of who gives a fuck and enter it into some other equation so I can pinpoint who knows where in the 4th degree latitudinal to the linear solar line....bah fed up with geography!!!...thus sub-rant numero 2

pre·req·ui·site ( P ) Pronunciation Key (pr-rkw-zt)adj.
Required or necessary as a prior condition: Competence is prerequisite to promotion. n.
Something that is prerequisite, as a course that is required prior to taking an advanced course

Advanced creative writing, otherwise known as Eng 358 with Guy Vanderhage. Prerequisite to the class is to hand in some examples of previous writing you have done. First of all I do not agree with the entire process of selecting a few for a creative writing class based solely on previous works. Anything originally created is then creative and thus should not be judged for the content but praised for the effort. Secondly you then judge the works only if they are short stories or beginings of novels...thus all subsequent forms of creativity are not good enough for your class, poety, movie scripts, playwrights, comedy sketchs, etc. are not a form of creativity. Guy Vanderhage you are an asshole who wrote 3 short stories that just happened to get published by some local canadian company and now you feel as though your all high and mighty and have the right to tell others what creativity is and isn't...and then you have the balls to tell me that "despite your chosen works I would be interested in seeing what you could write in the way of a novel or to begin with perhaps a short story." and then proceed to reject 17 other hope-fulls because they were not up to par. It is for this reason I did not accept your exclusive invitation...I would much rather my creativity is allowed to breathe and grow in it's own way than to be moulded and shaped by some washed up hack with bad breath. Good luck to those lucky few that have the distinct opportunity to take part in this class but Kudos to those that rejected the class for thier own reasons and best wished to all those he deemed not up to par for his class...he truly knows nothing of creativity if he tries to downplay what you have written.

holy rant crazy...sorry it's really late, I have had way to much caffine, spent way too much time working on homework and most of all was by myself for way way too long today and subsequently went a little crazy!

but it's my creative vision and if you don't like it tough nuggies!!

p.s. Pulled out the ole brand new "deja entu"(sp) and am re-addicted. Listen to this if you haven't before and if you have listen to it again!!

if this doesn't tickle your fancy then try some snow patrol...choclate, tiny little fractures, spitting games...any of those will do. trust me!!