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My professor took off a point from one of my scripts because I labelled a character as Nonbinary, and he claims I should've left the gender description blank because "it's not necessary for this character", as if "nonbinary" is a placeholder for "I don't care what gender" I am actually going to tear him to shreds
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Asking really sweetly and really nicely if a prof will let me attend her culture studies class even though the deadline for signing up is 2 months old <3
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I fully have not read a single thing for my philosophy class since like. The second week? Maybe the third? Which has been great for my time management but it also means it’s the end of the semester and I have to write a paper about one of these fuckers and I don’t. Like. Own the textbook? So that presents an issue.
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i still remember that during my senior year in high school, we had a new english teacher (we went through english teachers like acid through rice paper lol) who decided that, since we only had roughly 3 months in a semester, it would make more sense to analyze short stories instead of "covering" full novels. we still read novels, of course. but we spent more time going over short stories and poems written by these authors.
as a result, not only did we get to finish more works during the semester (instead of just reading the "highlights" or reading half of the book and watching a movie adaptation for the rest), but we had more time to give thoughtful analysis of the works we went over.
for my sophomore english class, we read 1984 and until i went back and reread it as an adult, i didn't take away much except for the sex scenes in the movie version our teacher forgot to fast forward past.
but in my senior year class, we read one of george orwell's short stories: the hanging. what resulted as a class-wide discussion that was so lively that we almost missed that lunch had started. not only did being able to finish the story and discuss it properly make it feel more meaningful when i went back and read orwell's longer works, but that very story has worked its way into my own writing. whenever i write about death, i think about the hanging. it's so ingrained in me that when i was processing my own anxieties over getting surgery, specific passages from that story were entering my mind. that wouldn't have happened if my experience with this story was limited to a crunchy pdf and a worksheet telling me to "find the symbols".
in that class, we read more complete works than i ever had in an english class before. we only watched movies if there was an adaptational or thematic point the teacher wanted to make -- not as a stand-in for reading the actual book. sometimes i think about where i would be now as a reader and a writer if i had him for more than one semester. because yeah he was fired lol. apparently one of the reasons was that he wasn't sticking to the curriculum by not assigning more full books. also he was a conspiracy nut but that always seemed to come up second. that's a story for another day.
when his replacement took over, we had to read (parts of) a christmas carol. and one of our assignments was a christmas themed word puzzle. one of the words was "coal". it was like watching dead poets society but backwards.
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