One Stray Pea

In an effort to clean up the clutter in my sewing room/office/place to store my sloppy mess and keep the door closed I started looking through old junk. I found a manila folder full of old college papers I saved for a portfolio I never had to do. Oh LAS requirements, what an epic fail. The first paper I found was an English paper written on Pantheistic Monism. I kid you not! I couldn’t make that up!! Does anyone even know what that means? These are just words that I’m not even sure go together. I blame someone with a PhD and shake my fist at higher education. I’ll give you some Pantheistic Monism….as soon as I figure out what it is.

Next I found 2 papers for Philosophy. I would like to take this time to point out that my Philosophy/Health care Ethics professor had a different tie dyed t-shirt for every day of the week, and complained constantly about how he made no money and his wife (a NICU nurse) made no money. Cry me a river! I bet he could explain Pantheistic Monism. So first I’m reading this paper for which  I received an A- because that crazy hippie disagreed with my stance that the strongest don’t survive while the weakest die off, because society will always carry the weak along. He actually wrote the comment, “watch the news and see how the real world works”. No Ron White (yeah, I called him out in the blogosphere…what’s up now?!), YOU watch the news. The socialized world ALWAYS carries the weakest links along while the strong have to work longer and harder to support those who don’t support themselves. I deserved an A +. You want to know what Ron White paper I did get an A+ on?? The Philosophy paper on human sexuality where I discussed our female ancestors using sex to obtain goods and the evolution to modern prostitution. I also got an A+ on the Health care ethics final where I caved in and decided to be a democrat for an hour and support socialized medicine. I won’t go into details, but the meeting about my paper pre-socialism was painful for all involved. I gave myself up for an A, I’m still ashamed…and I still can’t sit down without a pillow. Trust me, it’s better if that’s all you know.

Finally there is the absolute hilarious sociology paper further proving that no one takes sociology seriously. The paper was to be written in APA format, mine is not even close. I didn’t reference a single one of the quotes I used, nor did I give the required intro paragraph. I also discussed how previous generations of women didn’t stand up at Seneca Falls or burn their bras for Britney Spears to dance around in her underware. Really? This is an A paper?

Liberal arts was supposed to make me a more well rounded person, but really it just taught me how little work I needed to do to get the grades I wanted. Thank you higher education!

Filed under: General on May 18th, 2009