ugh.

[kaydeefalls]

My uni requires a full year sequence of the social sciences. I'm halfway through the third (and final) quarter of said sequence. And I HATE it. Over this year, I've had to read Adam Smith, Marx, Durkheim, Levi-Strauss, Foucault, and more -- all these major academic names that, having now read, suppsedly make me a better person. Or at least a better-educated person. Or something.

You know what? Every single one of the texts I've read for this class has bored me to tears. I just have absolutely no interest in the social sciences, apparantly. I dread writing papers for this class, because while I'm quite capable of cranking out five pages of bullshit, I hate every second of it. I don't CARE about Marx's thoughts on economics and class relations, I don't CARE about Durkheim's notion of the self, and I DON'T FUCKING CARE about Freud and psychoanalysis. I hate this class, I hate these readings, and I hate the fact that I'm going to pull an all-nighter trying to write something passable about something I have no interest in. The papers I churn out for this class are all quite decently written and deadly dull, because I can't write anything interesting when it's on a topic that I find so hideously boring.

I have to go write about Freud now. You know what psychoanalysis was? Boring. Mind-numbingly boring. I don't even care enough about his theories to disagree with them. And I pity the professor who will have to read this paper. Because she's going to be bored by it. Really, really bored.

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[beizy.livejournal.com]

*stabs Foucault in the face*

I'm an Anthro major and I find all that crap boring. So.

x.x

[kaydeefalls.livejournal.com]

God, I can't even imagine. I have friends who are all about the Anthro and Sociology. It boggles my mind.

[newredshoes]

I always loathed the fact that you need 3 sosc but only 2 hum -- why can't it be the other way around?!?!

Which sequence are you in? I agree with you about the utter mind-numbing awfulness of having those authors suck your soul out while you could be reading something interesting.

[kaydeefalls.livejournal.com]

SERIOUSLY, yo.

I'm in Self, the popular sequence. Blegh.

[newredshoes]

Oh, blech! You should have taken Classics, at least its pretention is crusty. :) And you get to read Mill, who is the shiznit and completely makes up for *shudders* Hobbes and Rousseau in winter, and five wretched weeks of Plato's Republic in the fall.

[msilverstar]

In Defense of Sociology: familiarity with these dead white guys really is part of being an educated person, and you'll be amazed at the number of times their ideas come up in plays as well as all other writing. They were revolutionaries, overthrowing the established order, and offering amazing insights even when they were wrong (Freud was such a sexist, omg). So I think you're being taught very badly, but the idea isn't all wrong.

*hugs you in sympathy*

[kaydeefalls.livejournal.com]

Intellectually, I do know why I'm being force-fed this stuff. But that doesn't really make writing the papers any better. Bah.

*hugs back*

[brightest-blue.livejournal.com]

Over this year, I've had to read Adam Smith, Marx, Durkheim, Levi-Strauss, Foucault, and more

As a full-blown social science geek, this is a practically orgasmic line-up.

I don't CARE about Marx's thoughts on economics and class relations, I don't CARE about Durkheim's notion of the self, and I DON'T FUCKING CARE about Freud and psychoanalysis

*orgasms* *g* I've even made the pilgramage to Freud's house in Vienna. But on the other hand, there are plenty of subjects that bore me to tears, much as these do you.

But just think- someday you'll be at a swank dinner party and you'll be able to hold forth on Durkheim's notion of the self and totally impress everyone.

Natasha