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The Next Frontier: College
Well, high school is behind me now and I'm finally moved into my new college. The first week is over and I'm fairly confident in how I'll do my first semester.
In case some of you didn't catch it in my earlier posts, I'm participating in the Army ROTC at my school. I'm not "contracted" yet, but I will most likely do that after my first year is over so I can start receiving a scholarship and all the other perks. Please understand that any of the benefits I might receive from doing this program are an afterthought. I would be doing this even if they didn't give me anything.
Anyway, the physical training for the program starts next week and I'll be getting fitted for a combat uniform as well. I also signed up for a group called Pershing Rifles. I'll get to learn how to do color guard, funeral duty, and how to spin the rifle all fancily.
When I'm not doing any of the above, I actually do have school. I'm majoring in History right now and so far the classes aren't too bad. The only one that I don't look forward to is my English Composition class, where we are studying....post-modernism.
I don't think I have ever read something more vapid and empty than what passes for post-modernist writings. A lot of big words, no clarity, and no sense of a moral compass. My favorite. Has anyone else been tortured with this?
Other than that, things are going well.
In case some of you didn't catch it in my earlier posts, I'm participating in the Army ROTC at my school. I'm not "contracted" yet, but I will most likely do that after my first year is over so I can start receiving a scholarship and all the other perks. Please understand that any of the benefits I might receive from doing this program are an afterthought. I would be doing this even if they didn't give me anything.
Anyway, the physical training for the program starts next week and I'll be getting fitted for a combat uniform as well. I also signed up for a group called Pershing Rifles. I'll get to learn how to do color guard, funeral duty, and how to spin the rifle all fancily.
When I'm not doing any of the above, I actually do have school. I'm majoring in History right now and so far the classes aren't too bad. The only one that I don't look forward to is my English Composition class, where we are studying....post-modernism.
I don't think I have ever read something more vapid and empty than what passes for post-modernist writings. A lot of big words, no clarity, and no sense of a moral compass. My favorite. Has anyone else been tortured with this?
Other than that, things are going well.
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I loved college!
Not all postmodern literature is bad. Vonnegut and Murakami are two of my favourite authors. And you'd probably like Catch 22.
Where do you attend university? I attend Case Western Reserve; since you're from Ohio, I believe that you may know of it.
Oh yes, I'm familiar with it. I got to Akron.
I truly sympathise if you have lame-brain teachers who imagine that you can study 'postmodernism' as part of a literature course. By its nature, it cannot exist without a 'modernism' after which to come. In literature, I suppose the 'modernist' would be Henry James with Beckett as the post-m. As Derrida has pointed out, we cannot escape from the whole context ans weight of our cultural history, however much we attempt to deconstruct.
I suggest that you become an expert on something obscure, like the Metaphysical Poets (nothing to do with philosophical metaphysics), and then use your arcane knowledge to expose the teachers' monocular and simplistic approach.
I was lucky - in the dim and distant past when I did Drama and English at Uni we only had to study real literature like Shakespeare and the Restoration dramas. Although a lot further down the line I find myself able to read most things and get something out of it ..... just a devourer of books, no taste and hardly any discrimination really.
I do love US irony! History about facts? Just too funny.
Oh, you do realize that the commitment to ROTC is a 13 to life commitment, right?
Don't talk to her much anymore.
If I go into active duty, which is the most likely, the commitment is 6-8 years. But I'm very likely going to make a career out of it anyway.
A quote from the movie Waking Life!
There's a second part of his argument for existentialism, but I think that's all I should quote. I must admit I used to look at Baudrillard with some interest and acknowledged him as an influence, but later things I came across like existentialism kinda knocked pomo out of the way.