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Useless college worl lit class

I thought my hell was through when i finished shakespear in high school. Now i'm enrolled in a study abroad class and we have to read "the odyssey" by homer and dantes the "inferno" and some other book. I have started to read the odyssey and im more lost than i was in calculus class. Will someone please explain to me where a class such as this will better prepare me for my professional career. I must be dumb for not liking these stories, but i hate this shit. I pray to god that i pass this class and don't have to spend all my time in italy locked in my hotel reading such boring stories. Is something wrong with me for not liking such old and famous stories and writers?

You will probably like the Odyssey. It's one of those books everyone should read. And the Inferno reads like a comic book. You could be reading way, way, way more dense and lame shit in a college lit course.

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Originally posted by neo geo Is something wrong with me for not liking such old and famous stories and writers?

No. But, what's your major?

yeah every thread you start is about how much you hate school...what are you studying?

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Originally posted by Perfect_Cheezit You will probably like the Odyssey. It's one of those books everyone should read. And the Inferno reads like a comic book. You could be reading way, way, way more dense and lame shit in a college lit course.

+ a huge 1

My major is international business. I plan to go into gemology. Yeah this is true, i hate school with a damn passion. I went back to school after i realized how bad construction work sucks and that i wanted a better life. I'm sure i'm not the only one who dislikes school. I just find these books hard to follow and hard to understand who is who. Oh well enough of my worthless bitching.

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Originally posted by neo geo Will someone please explain to me where a class such as this will better prepare me for my professional career.

It won't, really.

A liberal education is a luxury and frankly should not be wasted on people who think of college courses as just unpleasant steps in the ladder up to a lucrative occupation.

For this reason I think that colleges should drop "core curriculum" requirements, which result only in professors being burdened with students who don't give a damn and students who don't give a damn being burdened unnecessarily with things they don't give a damn about. It would leave everyone better off, including those students who actually care about the material and would rather not endure the feet-dragging of people who don't want to be there.

To clarify, I don't think that there is anything wrong with not giving a damn about literature or whatever else. The phrase "wasted on" might have given that (false) impression.

ehhh....i would'nt say it's wrong, it's just not in your interest. don't like literature classes because i hate how people can look into things too much.

for example, "she was wearing a red hat so that must have meant she was very angry" stuff like that

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Originally posted by neo geo Will someone please explain to me where a class such as this will better prepare me for my professional career.

Imagine you and a rival in a very important meeting with Piero Napopolous, an Italo-Greek gem tycoon.

Napopolous: Both of you want to sell my gems in America, right? so, in order to choose who I'm making business with, I've prepared a quiz. Are you ready?
You: Yes!
Your rival: Yeah, shoot!
Napopolous: Who wrote The Odyssey!?
Your rival: Hal!
You: Homer!
Your rival: Hah, you idiot, everyone knows he's Margie's husb...
Napopolous: "Homer" is the right answer. Where does the The Divine Comedy first take place!?
Your rival:
You: Hell yeah, I read that book! It wa...
Napopolous: Congratulations, "hell" is the right answer. Let's make business, Neo Geo.

----

Ta-da!

Funny thing is i love history and can watch history channel all day long. Yeah, some core classes should be dropped and offered as electives, but then they probably never fill the classes enough to offer them. I sit up night after night reading about the study of precious metals and the chemistry of how gems are formed. When i take and interest in learning something i try to learn as much as possible about it, but when i have no interest in something i do what it takes to get by. Sorry, but that's just me.

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Originally posted by neo geo When i take and interest in learning something i try to learn as much as possible about it, but when i have no interest in something i do what it takes to get by. Sorry, but that's just me.

Most people are this way (I know I am; I couldn't see myself taking much of an interest in management courses or something), and as I said, I don't think there is anything wrong with that. No need for the "sorry."

Thank GOD for spark notes! These things help you understand what you have just read in the last 20 pages. Now i know where they get the questions for who wants to be a millionaire and jeopardy.

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They might teach you how to spell.

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Originally posted by neo geo Thank GOD for spark notes! These things help you understand what you have just read in the last 20 pages. Now i know where they get the questions for who wants to be a millionaire and jeopardy.

agreed..sparknotes got me through college 100%

luckily all my english classes i ever taken in college thus far i've used sparknotes and did pretty well.

so sadly enough i havent read a book in years lol

who has hours on end to spare reading a book

i for sure don't lol

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Originally posted by sot agreed..sparknotes got me through college 100% luckily all my english classes i ever taken in college thus far i've used sparknotes and did pretty well. so sadly enough i havent read a book in years lol who has hours on end to spare reading a book i for sure don't lol

GOOD JOB!

does your college offer refunds?|

why would his college need to offer a refund? College is nothing more than a 4 to 5 year test to see if you can make it through a bigger test and have the discipline to do it. Half the classe you take you will never use and forget half the stuff you learned in the class. I guess its all to give us that "well rounded education", whatever that is.

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Originally posted by neo geo why would his college need to offer a refund? College is nothing more than a 4 to 5 year test to see if you can make it through a bigger test and have the discipline to do it. Half the classe you take you will never use and forget half the stuff you learned in the class. I guess its all to give us that "well rounded education", whatever that is.

*his* college? i was responding to you.

and if you cant make it through a reading class for which the books are at a 7th grade reading level, what does that say? you cant spell and i read those books in a PUBLIC middle school. is your college even accredited?

it is a test, in more ways that one. but when you cannot, no, you refuse to concern yourself with decent, even entertaining reading - what does that say?|

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Originally posted by neo geo why would his college need to offer a refund? College is nothing more than a 4 to 5 year test to see if you can make it through a bigger test and have the discipline to do it. Half the classe you take you will never use and forget half the stuff you learned in the class. I guess its all to give us that "well rounded education", whatever that is.

Well if you think of it that way, it makes the world a happy place!

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Originally posted by Lira Imagine you and a rival in a very important meeting with Piero Napopolous, an Italo-Greek gem tycoon. Napopolous: Both of you want to sell my gems in America, right? so, in order to choose who I'm making business with, I've prepared a quiz. Are you ready? You: Yes! Your rival: Yeah, shoot! Napopolous: Who wrote The Odyssey!? Your rival: Hal! You: Homer! Your rival: Hah, you idiot, everyone knows he's Margie's husb... Napopolous: "Homer" is the right answer. Where does the The Divine Comedy first take place!? Your rival: You: Hell yeah, I read that book! It wa... Napopolous: Congratulations, "hell" is the right answer. Let's make business, Neo Geo. ---- Ta-da!

that totally reminded me about our teacher last semester which was teaching "history of contracts" during the roman's empire , basically he taught us the origins of all the basic contrats.....not the most useful subject we all agree on that but it was interesting to see how the teacher was so passionnated about his field

and first course he was like "so for all of you who gonna be notaries well taking this course will be useful...imagine someone who's comming because he wants to make a sell....first u can be like

"so sir a sell ....yes but did u know this contract is ancient and found its origins during the first roman's period blah blah....this person will think ....

this notary is damn cultured i wanna do my sell through him/her ....i want your services sir"



would be more likely "damn who's this guy-girl talking about?

International business? The most important thing is the general knowledge imo, more than equations.

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Originally posted by neo geo Funny thing is i love history and can watch history channel all day long. Yeah, some core classes should be dropped and offered as electives, but then they probably never fill the classes enough to offer them. I sit up night after night reading about the study of precious metals and the chemistry of how gems are formed. When i take and interest in learning something i try to learn as much as possible about it, but when i have no interest in something i do what it takes to get by. Sorry, but that's just me.

I can understand. I've honestly learned more watching the Discovery, Science, History, Animal Planet channels, and researching on my own,
than anything ive retained from school. If there is something that you truly want to learn, in this day and age, there shouldn't be any reason why you can't teach yourself. Assuming you have the time that is. The majority of students who don't do well in school isn't because of their lack of competency, its their lack of motivation for a particular subject, mostly due to the horridly boring way of schooling. I literally shuttered each time I had to go to Accounting as my teacher was just so dreadfully boring. I have no intent of studying the subject any further.

Also, the problem with most public school systems is that were being taught the exact same thing when were 20 that we learned when we were 13. I was forced to read the Odyssey and all those books once before, why am I having to do it again? Pretty much all core classes have this dilemma which basically deem them worthless to most people. Except for the most rigorous majors and professions, where the tools in school are the only way to progress sufficiently, most of us are just waisting tens of thousands of dollars on a piece of paper, confirming that we are competent and can follow instructions in a proper manner.

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