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I always thought that in spite of the fact that I am going to be out of job all my life because there are flocks, tons, zillions of people around who major in Literature, people who also minor in Psychology and yet another Literature course, at least my course at the University was worth all the frustration because it is what I've always wanted to do.

Wrong.

I am so fed up with my German Literature course, it is unbelievable. Our professor never. Ever. Comes to the point and never. Ever. Poses questions in an understandable way, so people can somehow understand what she wants. Even if I know the answer to a specific question it is very hard to determine whether that is actually the thing she is after. She seems to enjoy sheer endless contributions to topics which have nothing to do with the point by students. The lessons simply never lead us to any conclusions.

For example: we were talking about the first dream interpretation in Freud's Interpretation of Dreams, in which the famous Irma is a guest at a kind of dinner party. Our prof asked a question which turned out to be about why Freud introduced his theory with an interpretation without having explained the theory previous to that.
Someone started to talk about how interesting it was that Irma has the status of a guest in that dream, because a guest is something hybrid, not really part of the household and not really not part of it. Maybe that is interesting as well. Well, not really. But it did not have anything to do with the things we were working on.

The lessons are always a mixture of rather pointless observations and statements made by various members of the course which never ever lead anywhere but which are on a very high academic level with loads of background knowledge which does not have anything to do with our topic, interjected with cryptic questions of our professor.

Honestly... I sometimes want an atropian short cut.

But apart from university stress, overall pointlessness, zero perspectives and the fact that I miss my beautiful, wonderful partner every second of the day, life is really wonderful.

Oh, and I managed to hit our dustbin with the car yesterday. There does not seem to be any damage but... Argh. I. Am. Fed. Up.