Midterms, midterms, midterms

October 17th, 2008 • education
Tags: education

It’s the week college students dread the second most: midterms week. I only had one, really, but it was a real bitch of a test. However, I feel worse for Professor McCarthy and his TA who have to read all of our essays, must be at least 400 pages to plow through. It was a 10 question take-home test in which he wanted us to basically write a whole bunch and I’m sure that about 10 of us actually did, the rest half assed everything. They’re the same bunch (basically everyone) that never does the reading and complains about doing work. Too bad for them because I’m sure we’ve still got our ethnography to do. Not that I’m looking forward to it either.

I went to see Religulous this week, twice in fact. Once just to see it for shits and giggles — of which there were many — and the second time so I could jot down notes for a paper for McCarthy’s class. Like most skeptics that saw the movie, I enjoyed watching Maher poke fun at people who mostly deserved it. I don’t agree with all of the critics who say that the segment with Rabbi Dovid Weiss was anti-Semitic in any way unless they’re referring to Rabbi Weiss. I’ve seen attacks against Maher for comments he made which I’m wondering if we saw the same movie because Maher barely got a word in before he called the interview off…because he couldn’t get a word in. Overall, I enjoyed the movie, even with its quick cuts. I hope the director’s cut will have extended interviews or simply include them on the disc(s) as extra, I know a lot of people would like to see more of what was said.

I’m glad this week is over, it was too stressful. Now I’ve got to read Imagined Communities by Benedict Anderson for another paper that’s due soon.