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I need to be on the internet less in my classes. Or at least do the reading. I don't feel like being the "brilliant but lazy" anth student who gets good grades but doesn't contribute anything to class. I feel like I'm missing the point of my major. I love this shit, and every day that I don't pay attention I regret it.

So, yeah. Today I'm going to get that damned reading and/or assignment done for my Vietnam course. My Science, Technology, and Society course deserves more attention as well. First of all because it's interesting and relevant. Second of all because it's Dr. Edwards. She's one of my favorite teachers and deserves my full attention.

I make no apologies for my Anthropological Theory/Thought/Oldass Dry Journals class. I take better notes than anyone else, and I do it while cruising RPGWW, putting things up on the wiki, and uploading pictures to facebook. I may try to do more of the readings, especially since Franz Boas promises to not aggravate me to death.

Then again, I may not.

However, if I'm going to be some kind of anth-master-of-bullshit, I need to do the reading so I can practice my art in our class discussions.

That's my main source of disappointment in myself right now. Give me a shiny new laptop to type my notes on, and the first thing I do is hop onto the wireless? Willpower, please.

I need to get over this silly block I have against doing anything that's required of me. Because I love my major, I've never really had to take any classes I didn't want. Because I bullshit well, I've rarely had to do a single scrap of work I wasn't interested in. Gets you through high school because teachers aren't really paying attention and the work takes five minutes at most anyway. It could get me through college, but I think I'd walk away regretting that I didn't enjoy class discussions while I can have them, that I didn't enjoy reading new things or exploring new theories.

I'd be giving up my whole college experience if I let it pass by without paying attention. It's not a learning disability. It's me having no fucking discipline.

Time to get some, I suppose. It's starting to matter.

(no subject)

I need to be on the internet less in my classes. Or at least do the reading. I don't feel like being the "brilliant but lazy" anth student who gets good grades but doesn't contribute anything to class. I feel like I'm missing the point of my major. I love this shit, and every day that I don't pay attention I regret it.

So, yeah. Today I'm going to get that damned reading and/or assignment done for my Vietnam course. My Science, Technology, and Society course deserves more attention as well. First of all because it's interesting and relevant. Second of all because it's Dr. Edwards. She's one of my favorite teachers and deserves my full attention.

I make no apologies for my Anthropological Theory/Thought/Oldass Dry Journals class. I take better notes than anyone else, and I do it while cruising RPGWW, putting things up on the wiki, and uploading pictures to facebook. I may try to do more of the readings, especially since Franz Boas promises to not aggravate me to death.

Then again, I may not.

However, if I'm going to be some kind of anth-master-of-bullshit, I need to do the reading so I can practice my art in our class discussions.

That's my main source of disappointment in myself right now. Give me a shiny new laptop to type my notes on, and the first thing I do is hop onto the wireless? Willpower, please.

I need to get over this silly block I have against doing anything that's required of me. Because I love my major, I've never really had to take any classes I didn't want. Because I bullshit well, I've rarely had to do a single scrap of work I wasn't interested in. Gets you through high school because teachers aren't really paying attention and the work takes five minutes at most anyway. It could get me through college, but I think I'd walk away regretting that I didn't enjoy class discussions while I can have them, that I didn't enjoy reading new things or exploring new theories.

I'd be giving up my whole college experience if I let it pass by without paying attention. It's not a learning disability. It's me having no fucking discipline.

Time to get some, I suppose. It's starting to matter.

(no subject)

I need to be on the internet less in my classes. Or at least do the reading. I don't feel like being the "brilliant but lazy" anth student who gets good grades but doesn't contribute anything to class. I feel like I'm missing the point of my major. I love this shit, and every day that I don't pay attention I regret it.

So, yeah. Today I'm going to get that damned reading and/or assignment done for my Vietnam course. My Science, Technology, and Society course deserves more attention as well. First of all because it's interesting and relevant. Second of all because it's Dr. Edwards. She's one of my favorite teachers and deserves my full attention.

I make no apologies for my Anthropological Theory/Thought/Oldass Dry Journals class. I take better notes than anyone else, and I do it while cruising RPGWW, putting things up on the wiki, and uploading pictures to facebook. I may try to do more of the readings, especially since Franz Boas promises to not aggravate me to death.

Then again, I may not.

However, if I'm going to be some kind of anth-master-of-bullshit, I need to do the reading so I can practice my art in our class discussions.

That's my main source of disappointment in myself right now. Give me a shiny new laptop to type my notes on, and the first thing I do is hop onto the wireless? Willpower, please.

I need to get over this silly block I have against doing anything that's required of me. Because I love my major, I've never really had to take any classes I didn't want. Because I bullshit well, I've rarely had to do a single scrap of work I wasn't interested in. Gets you through high school because teachers aren't really paying attention and the work takes five minutes at most anyway. It could get me through college, but I think I'd walk away regretting that I didn't enjoy class discussions while I can have them, that I didn't enjoy reading new things or exploring new theories.

I'd be giving up my whole college experience if I let it pass by without paying attention. It's not a learning disability. It's me having no fucking discipline.

Time to get some, I suppose. It's starting to matter.