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Elliptical Studying
May. 6th, 2006 04:15 pmBecause I look at my livejournal much more often than I would open a word document with the same information:
PHYS103 Tuesday 8:00 – 10:00
BUSN111 Tuesday 1:00 – 3:00
MATH258 Wednesday 8:00 – 10:00
ENGL104 Thursday 8:00 – 10:00
RELI124 Thursday 1:00 – 3:00
ECON202 Friday 10:30 – 12:30
So I can do my religion today, study physics tomorrow and Monday, study calculus Monday and Tuesday, and dedicate the rest of my time to economics. And business computing will get wedged in somewhere, because it's easy and just needs refreshing, because doing less than perfect on that final would just be embarrassing.
On a less why would you care side, I read Matthew's Sermon on the Mount and much of Luke's journey narrative, and found them both to be... rather enjoyable works of writing. Luke 8.10 particularly, "...to others I speak in parables, so that 'looking they may not perceive, and listening they may not understand.'"
Of course, I hate when people do this. "Oh, look at me, I'm so special and sensitive and works of literature speak to me." It's ridiculous because it makes simply reading to be a source of pride, when it shouldn't be at all. Anyone can read. Anyone can understand, and believing otherwise is egotistical beyond belief.
...it's a bit like making a transparent metaphor about seeds and faith, and then being shifty-eyed and whispering that only people who try to understand will understand it, to make one's disciples feel speshul. *cough*
Don't mind my snark; I'm hardly serious about it. I realize the metaphor was less transparent when written, before it seeped into cultural consciousness, and that teaching through metaphors is actually much more effective in stimulating thought, and all that. I did like the verse, but thought my liking of it ironic juxtaposed with a miniature rant on people flaunting literary admiration. And I am ever a slave to irony.
And puns.
PHYS103 Tuesday 8:00 – 10:00
BUSN111 Tuesday 1:00 – 3:00
MATH258 Wednesday 8:00 – 10:00
ENGL104 Thursday 8:00 – 10:00
RELI124 Thursday 1:00 – 3:00
ECON202 Friday 10:30 – 12:30
So I can do my religion today, study physics tomorrow and Monday, study calculus Monday and Tuesday, and dedicate the rest of my time to economics. And business computing will get wedged in somewhere, because it's easy and just needs refreshing, because doing less than perfect on that final would just be embarrassing.
On a less why would you care side, I read Matthew's Sermon on the Mount and much of Luke's journey narrative, and found them both to be... rather enjoyable works of writing. Luke 8.10 particularly, "...to others I speak in parables, so that 'looking they may not perceive, and listening they may not understand.'"
Of course, I hate when people do this. "Oh, look at me, I'm so special and sensitive and works of literature speak to me." It's ridiculous because it makes simply reading to be a source of pride, when it shouldn't be at all. Anyone can read. Anyone can understand, and believing otherwise is egotistical beyond belief.
...it's a bit like making a transparent metaphor about seeds and faith, and then being shifty-eyed and whispering that only people who try to understand will understand it, to make one's disciples feel speshul. *cough*
Don't mind my snark; I'm hardly serious about it. I realize the metaphor was less transparent when written, before it seeped into cultural consciousness, and that teaching through metaphors is actually much more effective in stimulating thought, and all that. I did like the verse, but thought my liking of it ironic juxtaposed with a miniature rant on people flaunting literary admiration. And I am ever a slave to irony.
And puns.
