Don't be real, be postmodern......

[anotherusedpage]

I think I must have missed the point of last week's class on Structuralism. I thought I understood it at the time, but this week we moved onto Poststructuralism and Deconstructuralism and I realised I didn't have a fucking clue what any of it meant. And all the terminology's in French, which doesn't help. Neither does the tutor. He's not really a tutor, he's a postgrad student interested in an academic career, and we're his guinea-pig class...
Oh well. Next week is Marxism and Feminism. I can DO Marxism and Feminism.
Only four hundred pages of Dickens left to go this week. And a couple of hundred words of Anglo Saxon.
I'd forgotton what a bastard work actually was.
Still. I only have to survive another two days of hard work and then I'm going to go see Matrix Revolutions...

Comments

[anotherusedpage.livejournal.com]

I thought that structuarlism was ok, but.... I didn't understand the reactions against it, so I probably missed the point. Especially considering I hadn't done the prep reading for that class...

[redfireborn.livejournal.com]

I find that doing prep reading after classes is a lot easier, cos then I've already got the basic ideas. Saves me time :)

[lucy-lupin.livejournal.com]

I do that too. I find it so annoying reading the notes/textbook before the lecture addressing that section and realising I underlined the wrong parts and focused on the wrong things.

[redfireborn.livejournal.com]

So it's not just me? I always focus on the wrong things, I've got a weird sense of what should be important and what shouldn't be...

[anotherusedpage.livejournal.com]

.... I just don't write notes. Partly because I can't actually read my own handwriting. And if I underline something I can never remember why.

[redfireborn.livejournal.com]

I usually take the occasional note in classes, but most of it is put online anyway, in powerpoint presentations and such, so that's rather easy...

I only underline stuff if I find it really important. Or if I really don't get anything.

[lucy-lupin.livejournal.com]

I underline way too much when I'm tired. And then I look back at the readings when I'm trying to study for exams and think, "Okay, where do I start?"

[lucy-lupin.livejournal.com]

lol I couldn't pass anything if I didn't take notes. I don't think people realise just how difficult university is. Sure, you have more flexibility with your schedule but you're responsible for your own learning far more than what you were at high school and if you have a bad lecturer, that just adds to the stress.