Amazing.

[mothwing]

I would have never expected that the Novell-servers on this campus actually WORK, once in a while! Wow!

The first seminar I had today was utterly great - "Internet communication" - wow. We're going to analyse communicative structures in online communication. Whee! It was really strange to read David Crystal use the word "flame" when I read my text for next week, and we are to find examples for the things he mentioned (flaming, spamming, trolling, etc.). I love this course.

The lecture on medieval literature after that was also really good, and I had almost regained faith in this university when the students protesting against the introduction of study fees pissed me off with one of their stupid attempts to get students to support their cause by treating the entire campus to a rendition of - horrible noise. It had structure and there were human voices in it, I assume it was music. Supposed to be music.
I can't really say I am intolerant when it comes to things that can be considered music in the broadest of senses, but I was close to running amok and hitting them over the head with the text I was trying to read when it became apparent that their psychological warfare would last all morning. The noise reminded me vaguely of some of the stranger the works of Tom Waits (actually of something in between the stranger works of Tom Waits and Varése), and I suppose that that kind of music is what the cool intellectuals hear these days.

I am not a cool intellectual, I am a person who is actually trying to get something DONE and do not have the time to lay auditory siege to the campus. Poems in medieval German are hard enough to read without someone perpetrating modern music in the background. ARGH! I daresay most of their campaigns to gain followers must backfire, and backfire with a great number of human casualties.
I am a very mellow campus-dwelling creature, and if their behaviour nearly manages to make me want to drink hot chocolate from their empty skulls, then I don't know what kind of effect it has on our aggressive, reptile-brained economy students. Sigh. After today I'd want to introduce fees so high that they can't continue their course of studies at this university, I don't see how it is supposed to achieve anything in others who do not even share their views. I do. Stop being on my side, you make my side look stupid...

Comments

[lordhellebore]

First: GREAT icon!

Second: Those idiots *sigh* Will they ever learn? I guess the answer is no.

Third: I'm sorry I wasn't there for the lecture. I totally overslept -_- But I can still get in, right?

[mothwing.livejournal.com]

*bows* Thanks! Although I keep wondering whether that is a gracious pose or she was trying to let the photographer know that her corset broke one of her ribs and he should get a move on.

Oh, no problem. You just have to decide whether or not you want to write a mini-paper in the lecture or not. He distributed those handy little literature lists, I brought you one - although it doesn't seem to differ greatly from the stuff he's done last year? I dimly recall seeing most of the titles on that.

As for the demonstrators: I really don't get it, either. Do they want me to be on their side or what?! Ts...

[lordhellebore]

WTF? Since when do we have to wriote papers in lectures???

[mothwing.livejournal.com]

Since they introduced the gorgeous BA/MA system. I don't think we have to, at least not all of us. Since I am not sure whether I actually do have to or not, I am considering writing the wee paper on the poem which I'm going to discuss in my main paper for the seminar, anyway. Might be a good preparation. And chances are that I need the lecture if I want to change, and everything. No one can tell me.

I don't think you need it, though. But you could do it - I like it because it makes me attend.

[lordhellebore]

I don't think I have to. Last semster, it was papers only for the BA/MA guys, not the Magister people. I have NO intention WHATSOEVER to do that.

[mothwing.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure I'll do it, either, but it's only five pages I might be writing anyway, so why not hand them in? :D

[lordhellebore]

Well, from that perspective, do it? But I'm not gonna. I won't do anything except sit and listen and write down the intersting stuff :D

[moonystone.livejournal.com]

Glad to hear that you're happy with your courses. I am as well :)

These protesting people truly don't help their "cause" at all by displaying such behaviour. I remember the gruesome time of tower blocking when these people listened to their loud music, smoked and drank beer at TEN IN THE MORNING!!! Now this is exactly the image people have, and sometimes I'm ashamed to call myself a student...

[lordhellebore]

I remember the gruesome time of tower blocking when these people listened to their loud music, smoked and drank beer at TEN IN THE MORNING!!! Now this is exactly the image people have, and sometimes I'm ashamed to call myself a student...

PRECISELY! I always feel really bad when they "protest" like that. Remember the one time we left the demonstration before it evenr eally began, because it was JUST LIKE THAT? More party than anything else?