Shadow Gods

Tuesday, May 09, 2006

On the continuing saga of the funny shit hitting the fan of my life, I went to the department to enroll in the last courses for the **bullhorn, please** Bachelor in Mathematics,Computer Sciences minor degree. I asked the counselor to check my courses in order to avoid any unpleasant surprises next December.
"Operating Systems - check"
"Linear Algebra - check"
"Abstract Math - check"
"Undergraduate Seminar - check"
"English..."
"What?"
"English. As in second year English. You are missing one English course."
"Pardon my ENGLISH but, WHAT THE FUCK??!!"

Even though I was pissed, it is only an English course, could have been worse, could have been Phys Ed. I proceed to look for courses to select:
Creative Writing - not an option, I need six credits in English Lit AND the English Dept. blessing.
Writing for the Media - no spaces available.
Technical Writing - no spaces available.
Themes in Cinema - of course, no spaces available.
American novel from 1850's to now - no spaces available.

So I had to settle for English literature from 1798 to Modern Age with L's favorite professor: Nandita.

Hilarious.

P.D. I just noticed that during summer there is space available for the course: Writing for the Media. I enrolled in it and I really hope being able to ditch the Literature one. Why should I not be able? The fact is I study at the government's university and it is a possibility that they will close for the summer for lack of funds. Fuck politicians, again!

1 Comments:

  • Questions, comments, anyone...Mariah?
    Welcome to the world of Batra who gets off dead poets and sees vampires everywhere. "Ancient Mariner", anyone, "Manfred", please, "La Belle Dame", of course...this meaning I would gladly kill to be in your shoes right now, although I'll probably be dead already if the dark british lords of verse asked me to go through all the math stuff to get a fix of Shelley.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 4:39 PM  

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