I watched the Chargers-Eagles game yesterday.
Sarah and Naomi just fell out of their chairs.
See, I'm not what you might call a sports fan. I watch occasionally, particularly in a season where a San Diego team is doing particularly well. But I don't really enjoy football much. It's awfully violent for a delicate flower like myself. (Whatever. I'm a pacifist. And it always seems to me that football players are punching each other when they're in a pile.)
One way or another, yesterday was Sunday and I don't have cable. That leaves me with Nascar, golf, football and televangelism. Normally, that means that I choose homework.
But not yesterday. Oh no. Yesterday, I chose to watch the world's most boring, flag-ridden football game instead of reading the books I need to know about in order to pass next week's midterm exams.
I am so completely unmotivated. Help me.
Can I try that with my professors Sarah!! Does a test really help us to learn the material in a way that will be useful later on in our career? I think not. Alas I don't thing I have much of a say in the matter.
And Beth, I have midterms next week too!! I feel like I just finished the first set of exams and here we go again!
Posted by: RikkiSuzanne at October 24, 2005 11:48 PM
Not to rain on anyones parade but tests are tools for learning, they are measures to demonstrate that you have learned.
I am wondering whether cable will be more of a distraction
Posted by: Andiclaus at October 25, 2005 10:19 AM
I am amazed that you watched football! School work must be really boring! Maybe it would be good to think of studying as educating FeFe! Everything you read and study FeFe will just know! Or maybe you should study so that you pass your classes and have impressive transcripts so that you can transfer to Chicago!
On th other hand maybe you should tell your professors that the pressure of a grade is keeping you from your journey for knowledge and that your understanding of the material cannot be fuly understood through the format of a test but through the implementation of the theories learned in your professional practice! hehe, it works in art school.
Posted by: Sarah at October 24, 2005 01:49 PM