Slow Progress
Ok, my Humanities final is due on Friday at 5:00pm. I want to have it done by Thursday night so all I have to do on Friday is take exams, pack my last few things, and clean so I can be ready to check out at 1:30. Today I got a whole two pages done out of the six that I wanted to get done. That means four more pages to write tomorrow in the midst of two final exams and packing more stuff up.
I think that my largest problem is that my BSing mechanism has run out of steam. In high school, it had sufficient amounts of time to recover between uses. Here, not only is it worked harder every time that it is used, but it is used more often. That, and that I don’t normally try to make extensive use of it during really stressful times, such as finals week. I just wish that the liberal studies profs would finally realize that all of the students here are engineering majors. We don’t really care about what Copely was trying to convey when he painted the Grand Canyon or why Thomas Jefferson was such a tinkerer. We really have no use for this knowledge in our occupational fields. What we do need to know is calc and physics and mech/ee/ce/ec/ap/am/cs related stuff so we can go out and perform our jobs correctly. If we actually cared about this stuff, we wouldn’t be at Kettering in the first place. We would go somewhere where we could get a bachelor of arts degree in some artsy (ie, useless) field.
Well, enough for now. It is 11:30 and I have to get up bright and early tomorrow for a 7:30 phys exam. Wish me luck. And to think, as soon as it is over, I get to start cramming for my 3:30 social science exam that I haven’t had any time to study for because of my stupid Humanities final paper. Ick! I can’t wait for it all to be over.
