I was gonna write how relieved I was to get three major papers/assigments out of the way. But then I looked at my schedule and see that I have
three four more major papers/assignments to go (two of which are presentations, argh!) plus those
2 3 stinkin' finals. I'm not even including tomorrow's "mini-assigment" and the graded class discussion I have coming up as well. You WILL be surprised to note that I am not complaining either. Ha. Just stressed:) I'm realizing how much "nerdier" I am this time around in school. I mean that in the nicest sense of the word. Hehe. Nerdy as in, "Oh, gad what if I don't get an A?!". I don't think I was like this in college, or even high school. I was always striving to pass and quite content with passing grades. I think I was too intimidated in college to even think I could get As in class. That was silly of me. I think my expectations are higher because,
hello, I'm going to need all this knowledge coz I'm going into this career, no?! Yun lang. There's a more specific purpose to my studies. Usefulness is definitely a bigger motivator than a degree.
Though it's for class, I'm currently enthralled by Lisa Delpit's Other People's Children. I feel like I'm underlining the entire book. Here's a quote:
Precisely becasue of their subtlety and indirectness, these modern forms of prejudice and avoidance are hard to eradicate....many whites remain unconvinced of the reality of subtle prejudice and dicrimination, and come to think of their black coworkers as "terribly touchy" and overly sensitive" to the issue.For such reasons, the modern forms of prejudice frequently remain invisible even to its perpetrators.
We're supposed to have a graded class discussion of the book. I don't know how the hell my teacher is going to handle that. He said he purposely chose this book because of the controversey surrounding it. I can already feel the tension building. I predict the white students (who currently congregate on the right side of the room, no joke) will be up in arms, using euphemisms for people of color being "too sensitive" and the non-white students and the token white female radical (who currently congregate to the left side of the room, haha) defending Delpit's statements. Racist predictions? Maybe it's the stress talking. We'll see. I would like to be wrong, but the way class discussions have been going so far this semester, I doubt I'm too off the mark.
