I just had 2 classes for the semester and they are frankly, quite difficult. Especially the second one which deals with Medieval texts like Chaucer, Dante, Augustine and Milton (MILTON!!). See the reading list at the right panel of this page? Chaucer has been there forever! I find it extremely hard to get through the text. It's so descriptive that it's Boring. The guy spends 20 pages describing clothes, behaviour, background of the people travelling along with him. I just know that it's going to be a great paperweight when I'm finished with this course.
It's funny cos I always have "plans" at the beginning of the semester. I'm sure most of us do. I'll tell myself things like "No more slacking around!" or "I will read the goddamn book even if it kills me" or the most ludicrous "I'm going to do secondary readings in the library on Friday nights till the library closes (10 or 11pm)." It's just so funny cos you know that it's not going to happen, period!
But I've come up with a plan to "force" myself to at least revise the day's lessons. Instead of taking notes in nice notebooks for my classes (it's always been a cheap thrill for me trying to select the correct "colour" of the notebook to buy so that it "represents" the course appropriately. Example: Fave colour for Nice class etc.), I've decided to make full use of the recycled paper "borrowed" from my work place (I just lugged a huge stack home haha), and write on those.
I'll then go home and make understandable and "intelligent" notes from these, type it ALL out and print and file in nice coloured (again!) files that I've just bought.
I have just finished fiddling around with a template that I will use for all my classes, and also typed out notes for my first class on Chaucer.
I just wonder how long this will last.
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