#i feel like this makes me sound bratty but i wasn’t being rude i swearrrrr

[francisforever2014]

update on the situation in case anybody cares (nobody does) i dropped the course!!!!! i was gonna stick it out bc whatever but i went to class today and genuinely the discussion questions were

what do you think is the worst problem humanity is facing ? war, inequality or environmental issues?

why is this thing an issue?

what can we do about it?

and i obviously wasn’t talking to my group bc well. those are the stupidest questions i’ve ever heard bc 1) a middle schooler could answer that (war is bad guys!!!) and 2) i’m not picking which is worse?????? anyways so i wasn’t talking and the ta came over and was like what do you think 😃 and i was like i’m not picking one i’m sorry i don’t think it’s something you can quantify and she was like well if you haddddd to pick and i was like fine. inequality bc it is the root of everything else and she was like and what can we do to fix inequality 😃and again i didn’t really answer bc like. what can we do to FIX INEQUALITY???? just broadly????? like genuinely what is there to say in such a short discussion but like “we should all be nice ❤️” it’s a dumb question and the other person at my table was like idk bc she wasn't feeling it either and the ta was like 😃well that’s why we’re in this class 😃 (kinda condescendingly) and that was just the last straw like i’m literally a mexican american studies/gender women studies double major don’t talk to me like i’m stupid and don’t know about inequality or whatever . i just didn’t want to answer the question bc i think it’s a weird thing to ask us to pick and i think that’s it’s not helpful to talk about things in such broad terms bc it doesn’t actually lead to any interesting discussions or learning bc everybody just spits out the same answers (which is exactly what happened for the rest of the discussion. like aren’t we here to learn??)… anyways i doodled and listened to a podcast for the rest of the lecture which was just about like. basic human history that we learned in 7th grade and then went home and dropped the class :) i’m taking an astronomy class instead which i hope will be more interesting and at the very least won’t be mind numbing . syllabus looks better at least ! and it’s in person bc i can’t with the online learning and i think i’ll actually want to go .. fingers crossed!!

okayyyy guys here’s the situation i really love my class schedule this year and am so happy since switching majors . EXCEPT this one fuckass class i’m taking that’s required for my gen eds. it’s a 100 level anthropology course that is actually mind numbing and i could definitely do it without going to class but attendance is required :| i’m considering switching to a fully online class to fulfill this requirement but all of those suck too (the gen ed is natural science and it’s just not interesting to me especially not at the 100 level like even subjects that i find interesting otherwise are dumbed down for these gen eds and it’s infuriating) anyways i’m trying to figure out whether i should stick it out or switch to a different boring class that i at least wouldn’t have to go in for?? considerations are that i HATE online learning with a passion but i would basically just be doing that anyways bc i’m def not paying attention even if i go… also this subject is at least mildly interesting to me (it’s a human diversity anthro class) and the fully online options are even LESS interesting. i really don’t know like it sucks either way