Foo - My boring evening <RANT>

So, I am taking a class about movies. The professors try to sweeten it up by calling it "an analytical view into the science of movie making". We watch movies and talk about them, plain and simple. Tonight, the professor was explaining to my hidiously IDIOTIC class (mostly freshmen) how movies are not real. During which, I was resting my head/face on my fist, which held my mouth somewhat open and was daydreaming about the 4 mile ride I just did on the way to the class, when the "professor" (really just a doctoral student getting a free education) had the audacity to ask if I was "with her". I was so pissed. For one, I am the only upper classman in this freshman level general education class, having just completed a semester of senior level education classes, so I know a thing or two about what is real and what is not. Two, we had to introduce ourselves to the class, and the vast, OVERWHELMING, majority fit this mold: Freshman, undecided. We had to tell our favorite movies, and this was the genre that most picked: Cookie cutter comedy, easy to digest. Examples: Joe Dirt, Super Troopers, Dude Where's My Car, Scary Movie, etc. When I told of my favorite movie, Apocolypse Now, I got the most confused looks from everyone. Not to mention, my clothes are old, my face was flushed from a 4 mile sprint through town, and I had mountain bike shoes on. So here is this scraggly, old clothed junior in a freshman level class, who's favorite movie is one of the more violent, dark movies ever created, sitting amongst a bunch of MORONS. I was so angry, I kept rolling my eyes at everything the "professor" said, and laughing to myself at everything everyone else said. It's going to be a great semester.

why the **** are you wasting money on a class like this?

people pay for waht you produce. will this help you produce anything?

Its a general education course, it looked the most appealing. WAYYYY better than Chinese Art History

man... someone should protest these lame ass courses. like literature and "movie class" and "crap no one cares about and will forget about two days later" class... why do they make people take this crap?

i mean... how do these classes help you understand the world better other than bringin ya to the realization that some idiot thought it was a good idea to waste peoples money on 500 year old sitcoms and dramas and other assorted bull****?

dumb****s...

Well, I do believe I agree with you on something!

you know what... once i do have to finally get around to one of these classes... i'm gonna write on a shirt


-front
**** classes

waste time

and money


-back
**** class

professors suck









yeah, baby!! i really am gonna do that... and i'll check for spelling first too. like in two years. :D

Its a general education course, it looked the most appealing. WAYYYY better than Chinese Art History

I think I'd disagree with you on that one... But I'd drop the movie one regardless.

man... someone should protest these lame ass courses. like literature and "movie class" and "crap no one cares about and will forget about two days later" class... why do they make people take this crap?

i mean... how do these classes help you understand the world better other than bringin ya to the realization that some idiot thought it was a good idea to waste peoples money on 500 year old sitcoms and dramas and other assorted bull****?

dumb****s...

Literature is important.

you know what... once i do have to finally get around to one of these classes... i'm gonna write on a shirt

-front
**** classes
waste time
and money

-back
**** class
professors suck

yeah, baby!! i really am gonna do that... and i'll check for spelling first too. like in two years. :D

Maybe after "professors suck" you should put in small type: "I get all my education at Bike Forums". Not far from the truth, really.

yeah.. ya'll didn't even answer the few problems i asked.. and one of you's a damn engineer!! :eek:

Literature is important.

how so? and don't go off rambling about proper spellin'. i ain't followin the rule of some language that doesn't even follow the rules of it's own damn alphabet.

yeah.. ya'll didn't even answer the few problems i asked.. and one of you's a damn engineer!! :eek:

Few? Few??? We're not jsut talking about mathematical and physics problems...

how so? and don't go off rambling about proper spellin'. i ain't followin the rule of some language that doesn't even follow the rules of it's own damn alphabet.

Try without it.

I think I'd disagree with you on that one... But I'd drop the movie one regardless.

If I drop the course now, I will end up having to take a 300 (junior) level general education course, which makes about as much sense as Jim Nabors getting a subscription to Hustler. Best bet is to ride it out. BGSU has a policy that says that you get a penalty for taking 100-200 (freshman/sophomore) level classes as a senior. As for the Chinese art history, I just don't like art much, period. It has nothing to do with Chinese, art or history. The class would be flat out mind numbing for me.

Your fellow art-degreed bike buddy here will just forget she read any of this thread...;)

We do have some similarities, however, I am taking a class now that involves casting! I made my first styrofoam mold for sand casting, and we get to do hot and cold forging!

Reminds me of some of the classes I have had.

Sorry about your boring evening. Mine was far from boring here!

:D

Maybe you should offer the class some of your enlightenment. Don't be so quick to write off or judge other people too. No one is holding a gun to your head. It seems to me that you hold your self in higher regard than your classmates. Lighten up and don't be so judgemental!

I'll join your rant. One of the required classes at my school (because they want to maintain a liberal arts background for all majors) is Introduction to Fine Arts (FA 207). I'm sure there's some merit to it and there's some out of class activities I might enjoy a little like the symphony, but the rest is going to kill me. I'm the only senior in a class of freshmen. The professor is boring and bordering on monotone. The out of class activities are bound to all create schedule conflicts. The class is at 8:10 in the morning. I know it's going to be a long semester.

This morning (2nd day of class), we all stood up in a big circle and did the name game. You know the one you did at camp where one person says their name, the next says the first's name and their own name, the third says all three names, and so on. Then we shared our feelings on the short movie we watched on Monday. I hate feeling sessions.

... I just don't like art much, period...

Sorry, but Are movies not art? Yeah there are some that just blow loaf, just copying off of something that is already done. But ther are movies out there that are every bit art.

Art as in what is not considered pop culture, i.e. Chinese art history, which, if you read, was the class I disliked.

<snip>WAYYYY better than Chinese Art History

I must disagree.

Check this out:

what the hell is it? the devil?

My Film and Writing class makes me weep for the future of this nation. The sad part is, I'm the youngest person in the class, being a Junior, while almost every other member of the class is a Senior.

"My favourite movies are the American Pie series, because...man, because Stifler. Just...Stifler. Yeah..."

We do have some similarities, however, I am taking a class now that involves casting! I made my first styrofoam mold for sand casting, and we get to do hot and cold forging!

Possibly an alternative to waxing.
http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?t=82882 :eek:

As to films, hard for me to accept a film class as "boring". Learning is not so much what the teacher "teaches" but what the student learns (i.e., self-teaches).
As a freshman in college I stumbled into films I never would have seen otherwise (small unrepresentative sampling: Monty Python; Rocky Horror; Clockwork Orange), and in an environment where I was eager for new learning. Got me involved in student association film series for several years. (Who would have thought the nation's oldest federally-chartered university, a Catholic institution would feature Emanuelle? I was shocked. Shocked.)

Perhaps the teacher would appreciate discourse on a higher level; or maybe an independent study project is an option?

heh, monty python rocks :p

"It's only a flesh wound!"

Art as in what is not considered pop culture, i.e. Chinese art history, which, if you read, was the class I disliked.

here's some artistic Chinese pop culture for you: