Tuesday, August 31, 2004

New habit this semester, every subject dealing with international law gives us tasks in which we are to translate and summarize given english articles on international law, every time we have class. My main concern is I won’t be able to skip class at all. Tragic!
It’s the new Dean, supportive and visionary proffessor who feels students majoring in international law should know what they’re getting themselves into, they say daunting books if you’re lucky, written in the most unpractical english if you’re unlucky. So should students think ‘shit I can’t do this’, they’d best think it at the very beginning of the semester so that they could still bail out. The new system has successfully driven away a few people from int’l law, in the course of two days. Not surprised, after the single page article we had to summarize today took more than an hour to complete, half an hour spent in privately discussing what it actually meant. Personally, I’d rather blame the intelligent scholar who wrote the damn thing for not using plain english. On a more serious note, it is rather fun and challenging... god I’m going to regret saying that.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

it is lucky for you to have this new dean and new habit. bad luck for me, that my school have this predilliction keeping these 2 old critical professor and still the old plain habit they had, defending each other one-of-this-day-you'll-go-down argument. what happend with the student? there's just a few 'shit i cant do this' and willing to give their self a pull forward. while the rest just 'shit, i dont get it!! guess that was my best, at least......(fill the blanks with superlame reason)'. i'm just the wrong guy at the right place at the right time. but then again, regreting wouldnt brought you anywhere then nowhere.
pour moi, i rather have myself born into this world earlier than those magnificent-thinker.
you got your track, you have the equipment, you know how to run. see ya in the finish line. wherever it is... *sigh* here we go again