Saw this image in a lecture slide and me thinks it is hilarious! Totally encompasses the whole liberal arts study over here and also trying to keep up with this thing - this whole sharing your thoughts and experiences with the world is bloody time consuming!
I also wondered the other day, do you think academics get shitty when we (lazy students) reduce their wonderful, long musings to dot points in order to study for for exams? Or when we totally butcher their theories in paraphrasing for an essay? Most of them here have such crazy Dutch or German names I'm probably pronouncing them wrong each class too :S
And speaking of exams, I saw the other day that an Adelaide researcher wants to get rid of "archaic" written exams. Hear, hear, as the Bard would say. Why can’t we just learn interesting things, enjoy the process and not have to be tested at the end! I felt like I'd been teleported back to Year 12 :S and in the end I reckon I might lose points for writing too much because I didn't see the instruction that said only write one page ... and I maintain my handwriting is fat (not to mention comletely ruined by 5 years of shorthand!!)(P.S. Mum, as an academic reader of this rambling, please don't hurt me!)
On the flip side, one really cool thing about studying here is the textbooks. At home all I get is dowdy media textbooks on media ethics and law and stuff. This bloc here I got one with Pop Art picture of Marilyn Monroe on the front! Am totally sending home a big box of all my books on a boat so when I'm old I can have them in my study library and reminisce about my days as a European intellectual!
For now though, I suppose I've answered old Willie's question (by blogging) and look forward to acquainting myself with him next semester when I delve into the subject "Shakespere on Screen"!
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