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?

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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?

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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 inconspicuous AndreaCKY772. just. so. dumb.

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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.

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Ta-da!

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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."