idwraith

This semester was pretty hard. I was taking 17th Century Poetry (Sex, Death & Salvation) Post Secular / Post Modern Sacred literature and The Works of William Blake.

Unfortunately my 17th century professor, a John Donne scholar decided to use her course as a soap box to spend the entire class preaching about the superiority of the 17th century Christian faith and philosophy over our depressed post modern era. For proof she used the writings of a series of writers done almost exclusively by gay men dying of AIDS during the 1980s. So to say her arguments were fairly biased is an understatement. She was more interested in going on and on about the superior point of view possessed by Donne and his compatriots than she was actually discussing the literary aspects of the 17th century poetry. It was very frustrating. She also showed herself to be criminally ignorant of other religion's point of views and openly scornful of them. Which, as someone who has followed alternate faiths, is something I found hard to stomach.

The other classes weren't bad but I ended up writing about 53 pages of term papers and take home finals for 3 course in the span of 8 days because I'm one of those people who CAN'T seem to work on a writing project until just before the deadline.