Books.. Money.. Knowledge? So What?
So school's finally started and I guess I'm sort of getting into the groove of studying again.Just as a side note, I'm not using my wonderful new lappy to write this. And somehow I can smell the faint scent of pee in my room.. it had better not be that fucking pooch. To prevent further occurences of this, he shall wallow in self-pity in the dungeons of my father's abode from now on.... no more sleeping in my room, that slut.
Anyhow, I was thinking about the amount of money we spend on education. Take expenditure like books for example. So far, I'm only taking 5 classes, and there aren't even that many books for those classes. However, I've spent just about 200 bucks on books already. Of course, when compared to the States, this is a small amount. But really, after doing my required readings, I've come to realise that much of the information has been duplicated from the text to the class notes. In this case, has it been rendered redundant? What would be the point of my buying the text, doing my readings, finally gaining the knowledge which wouldn't actually be of use in class since the lecturer has already chosen what's important FROM the text, maybe doing well in class, maybe storing this knowledge somewhere in my head for further reference, and probably never use it again?
Doesn't seem to have much of a point to it all does it? Oh well, I think I'm just sore that I'm putting in the effort to do the readings but the lecturer just picks out some of the things from the text, which basically summarises the bloody text, and I have to waste time, effort and money on the bloody book.
Oh well.. since I need to release some anger..... think I shall go shoot me some indegenous life-forms.
posted by Da Buffalo! @ 4:42 AM
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