Caught In The Whirlwind
Posts tagged world religions
Attempted Relaxation
Nov 12th 2007
I started out yesterday (Sunday) with the intention of doing as little productive as possible. I sorta succeeded except for the afternoon, but it was a good effort regardless.
I spent a lot of time playing Parasite Eve for the playstation on loan from my friends. It's a really nice game, pretty good graphics for such an old game, especially the FMV cutscenes. I had been working on it for a few weeks on and off (due to time constraints and other games catching my attention) and I finally finished it yesterday morning. I'm currently going through the EX Game mode where you get to keep your uber powerful weapons and armor from your last play through. There's more enemies and such this time through, plus another dungeon thingy to explore.
My afternoon was taken up by errands and running around to various electronics stores trying to piece together the best way for me to hook my iPod up to my Rogue's stereo. Still no pictures! Sorry 
I was going to take some today at lunch but I got sidetracked by some insurance problems that I had to call to get straightened out. My VIN number was listed wrong on my insurance and I needed to get it fixed before the DMV started sending me nasty letters.
After that, I did a little work on my Buddhism paper for world religions in my effort to not have to write the whole thing at the last minute. And then I watched some more Invader Zim which is an awesome animated cartoon thingy that I found through Netflix. So very random, and so very good.
Today I'm going to have practically no free time again because I have to go meet with my partner to work on our Software Engineering homework which is probably going to take up a good portion of the night. Sigh. I can't wait until school is over.
3 Hour Classes Should Be Illegal
Sep 27th 2007
Ughh…Last night's World Religion class was fun! We're just starting Hinduism (or what's classified as Hinduism anyway, considering it's a whole lot of more fractured religions under one banner..but I digress) and, as much as I enjoy my professor, she has a problem in that she knows too much.
You might be thinking that this really isn't a problem at all…but, consider also the fact that she also gets off track easily, so she tends to be all over the place during her lecture, going off the specific topic quite often. It's usually pretty interesting offtopic-ness but it inflates her lectures like you wouldn't believe.
It really starts to get annoying when she keeps talking for two and a half hours. With no breaks. Every 20 minutes last night she said "Just a few more slides then I'll give you guys a break.." And eventually, at near 9pm, she did. She was going to give us 20 minutes but she only had 3 more slides of her powerpoint presentation to go through, so we bargined her down to a 5 minute break because, at this point, what the heck is the difference anyway?
But still. Two and a half hours. That's entirely too long. She normally goes for somewhere along the realm of just under 2 hours, which is still too long for my tastes. I dunno about anyone else, but after listening and absorbing stuff for that long, I'm in need of a little break to space things out. I'd learn more if she, say, gave us two ten minute breaks, spaced about an hour apart each for some breathing room. Arrgh!
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