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