College politics and bullshit are exhausting- especially when someone takes a vast and interesting subject like Anti-Semitism and, somehow, manages to make it one of the most boring.
Seriously, here's what it's like every Tuesday and Thursday. My professor supplies the dead horse then we, as "young scholars", supply the bats, and for an hour and twenty minutes we BEAT AND BEAT AND BEAT the dead horse. Then we analyze the experience of beating the dead horse and how we might apply it to outside sources available in Langsam library. His only redeeming quality is that he slightly resembles George Clooney's ugly and less charming brother.
Not all of this whole college experience is terrible. Like today for example, when an unsuspecting, overweight & underdressed, divorced mom had to read her response to Philip Roth's The Breast in front of class. I had to put my head down because I felt like I had somehow walked into the sex scene of a Danielle Steele novel. That wasn't the best part though, oh no, it was the girl behind me's comment that was GOLD:
"It sounds to me like you ENJOY the penis, you want to USE the penis, you just don't want TO BE the penis"
I screamed on the inside. Even the professor was embarrassed- and she's laughed at a rape joke in class.
The now flushed, dirty mommy's response?
"Yep! That's about right!!"
Yeah, it's moments like those that make everything worth it.
Panic Mode: ON
UPDATE:
1 comment:
Found you through Alex's blogspot...I had to comment because your class sounds so remarkably similar in ways to my Jewish Lit class. Although we're reading American Pastoral and not The Breast. Paraphrased comment from our professor today (discussing A Contract with God)
"So, she says she wants to be Jewish, and him, having left it behind him, is bothered by this. What do you think Will Eisner is saying?"
yeah.
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