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I'm really done in ten days?

The List:

(Days 1-8)
+ Write 5 pages on Ovid's Metamorphoses for the professor too lazy to grade more than ten pages of writing per student per semester.
+ Write 7 pages on Estonia and Latvia and meditate on how I know very little of Russian history but A LOT about these two remarkably insigificant nations. Also, plan ways to slaughter Joan Afferica, because she's simply too annoying to live.
+Write 3-5 pages on Korean culture. Anticipate an A. Not much of a leap at this point.
+Study for quiz on Korea with L. Anticipate yet another A. Sense trend.
+At some point, attend East Asian cultural events and/or watch films in Chinese & Japanese or about China and Japan and write silly one-page summaries for that class I might actually get an A in.
+Plan/execute annual Christmas party with L, N, and E. Also, wrap presents. Also, buy wrappings for said wrapping of presents.
+Study a lot for that one final I have.

(Day 9)
+Take final, attempt to pass.
+Pack.
+Watch Buffy.

(Day 10)
+Home again home again, jiggity jig. Anticipate merrier holiday season than last year. Sleep.

(O Finalstime, I love thee!)

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

now you look here, no country is "insignificant." that's terribly rude! shame on you! :P i bet they're fabulous countries! and i say this not just as a potential latvian/estonian/lithuanian....

All right, then, I'll clarify. *Historically* they are entirely insignificant. They have contributed nothing to world history. That's my educated, slightly bitter, opinion, and I am sticking to it.

well, historically according to who? (or whom).

and what does contributed mean? i mean really, that is hardly an objective statement.

and i'm sorry i'm harping on this but you can blame my history major viewpoint on it, and especially my beloved hist 100 professor....

i just feel it necessary to dispell the world about its historical assumptions and skewed conceptions about who and what is "important."

and i don't want to write this paper! argh!

Hmm. The comment was not made with the level of seriousness with which you are responding. Which is all right. All I'm saying is, I took the class to learn about Russia, and learned more than I really wanted to know about Estonia and Latvia instead. It's all relative, anyway; as an English major, I'd say Anne Rice is insignificant compared to, say, Shakespeare. (I know you just about despise him, but he's undeniably influential.) I think Anne Rice is significant within a certain genre, a certain audience, the books significant in and of themselves; however, she has not had the same level of impact on the English literary tradition. (Nor will she.) I might read an Anne Rice book, but I'd take a Shakespeare course. And similarly, I might read a book on Estonian and Latvian history, possibly even consider visiting one or both countries, but I TOOK a course on Russian history. Meaning I wanted to LEARN about Russian history beyond a superficial level.

I hate my essay also. (Ironically, it's on Estonia and Latvia.)