This article appears in the November 2008 Edition of the Lehigh Patriot
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As a general rule, planning your class load for next semester is stressful. There are requirements to fill, time conflicts to worry about, and logging in at 10:00 pm with 1,000 other people (full disclosure: the author logs in at 9:30). With all of that said, you still have to avoid any class that starts at 8:00 AM and any class with a professor who says “uh” way too many times.
So who needs that? Certainly not me, so I decided to create as stress-free a schedule as I could. I got a headache just looking at my 19-credit schedule I had planned. Who needs to stay up until 3:00 AM every night? Forget about graduating in four years – I deserve a break. If you feel as I do, please feel free to join me on this standard fifteen-credit schedule which will provide an enlightening view to how others at Lehigh are able to live in luxury.
Mondays, I will be waking up bright and early to attend Introduction to Acting from 1:10 – 3:00 PM. What better way to unwind from a stressful Monday morning than to just pretend to be someone else for a few hours? The fact that I receive credit for this is a bonus! Following that adventure, I will be taking a long nap to prepare for my Tuesday.
On Tuesday, I start classes at 9:20. It will be difficult waking up that early, but I had to fit PHIL 220, Theory of Knowledge into my schedule. This class helps to answer the challenging questions in life, such as: “If you can’t know whether you are dreaming, how can you know you have two hands?” When I saw this entry in the course catalog, I knew this class was for me. I mean, just think about it: you may count two hands now, but what if you are actually dreaming that you have two hands? You could have one hand, or three hands, or 80 hands! This line of logic could go on forever.
Sadly, my Tuesday is not yet a fait accompli. Next, I will be moving on to Introduction to Marketing. The goal of this class is “to expose students to the meaning of marketing, the terminology of marketing, the activities involved in marketing,” and some other stuff. Enticing people to buy things they don’t need and can’t afford is part of what has made our economy the best in the world. Keep in mind that these are the geniuses that convince us every day to buy water in a bottle. Now I can be a part of that noble movement.
After a quick lunch, my brutal Tuesday continues. From 1:10 – 4:00 I will be taking a new course for the semester, Engendering “Black” Popular Culture: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Representation. This class promises to “explain the role of the U.S. media in enabling, facilitating, or challenging the social constructions of ‘Blackness.’” As a joint offering from the Africana Studies and Women Studies departments, it will give me the open-mindedness to intelligently discuss the critical social and civil rights issues of the 21st century. It will be interesting, because I don’t even know how to engender something. Plus, I never heard the media tell me how Black I was, but I’m sure other people have different experiences.
So that concludes my Tuesday. Fortunately, on Wednesday, I can relieve some stress by sleeping in until noon and then acting for two hours. Thursday, however, I will have to count my hands again to make sure that I’m not dreaming (even the description scrambles my brain – this is going to be a challenge). That’s okay, though; at that point, I will be one class away from the weekend. After a quick marketing class, my weekend will commence at noon on Thursday.
Over the 72 hour weekend, I will have to find time to complete my homework, read textbooks, write papers, and ponder my “Blackness,” engendering, and the number of hands I have.
This may not be as much of a walk in the park as I first expected.
As a general rule, planning your class load for next semester is stressful. There are requirements to fill, time conflicts to worry about, and logging in at 10:00 pm with 1,000 other people (full disclosure: the author logs in at 9:30). With all of that said, you still have to avoid any class that starts at 8:00 AM and any class with a professor who says “uh” way too many times.
So who needs that? Certainly not me, so I decided to create as stress-free a schedule as I could. I got a headache just looking at my 19-credit schedule I had planned. Who needs to stay up until 3:00 AM every night? Forget about graduating in four years – I deserve a break. If you feel as I do, please feel free to join me on this standard fifteen-credit schedule which will provide an enlightening view to how others at Lehigh are able to live in luxury.
Mondays, I will be waking up bright and early to attend Introduction to Acting from 1:10 – 3:00 PM. What better way to unwind from a stressful Monday morning than to just pretend to be someone else for a few hours? The fact that I receive credit for this is a bonus! Following that adventure, I will be taking a long nap to prepare for my Tuesday.
On Tuesday, I start classes at 9:20. It will be difficult waking up that early, but I had to fit PHIL 220, Theory of Knowledge into my schedule. This class helps to answer the challenging questions in life, such as: “If you can’t know whether you are dreaming, how can you know you have two hands?” When I saw this entry in the course catalog, I knew this class was for me. I mean, just think about it: you may count two hands now, but what if you are actually dreaming that you have two hands? You could have one hand, or three hands, or 80 hands! This line of logic could go on forever.
Sadly, my Tuesday is not yet a fait accompli. Next, I will be moving on to Introduction to Marketing. The goal of this class is “to expose students to the meaning of marketing, the terminology of marketing, the activities involved in marketing,” and some other stuff. Enticing people to buy things they don’t need and can’t afford is part of what has made our economy the best in the world. Keep in mind that these are the geniuses that convince us every day to buy water in a bottle. Now I can be a part of that noble movement.
After a quick lunch, my brutal Tuesday continues. From 1:10 – 4:00 I will be taking a new course for the semester, Engendering “Black” Popular Culture: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Representation. This class promises to “explain the role of the U.S. media in enabling, facilitating, or challenging the social constructions of ‘Blackness.’” As a joint offering from the Africana Studies and Women Studies departments, it will give me the open-mindedness to intelligently discuss the critical social and civil rights issues of the 21st century. It will be interesting, because I don’t even know how to engender something. Plus, I never heard the media tell me how Black I was, but I’m sure other people have different experiences.
So that concludes my Tuesday. Fortunately, on Wednesday, I can relieve some stress by sleeping in until noon and then acting for two hours. Thursday, however, I will have to count my hands again to make sure that I’m not dreaming (even the description scrambles my brain – this is going to be a challenge). That’s okay, though; at that point, I will be one class away from the weekend. After a quick marketing class, my weekend will commence at noon on Thursday.
Over the 72 hour weekend, I will have to find time to complete my homework, read textbooks, write papers, and ponder my “Blackness,” engendering, and the number of hands I have.
This may not be as much of a walk in the park as I first expected.
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