Interesting class
Jun. 29th, 2004 01:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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First off, it's the second day in a row sans my Core 5 professor. Yay, I can do my homework late!
Anyway, in my Classics class we were talking about Socrates, and his trial, and comedy/tragedy in Athens, and how their plays were cathartic to them, allowing them to get rid of all that negative emotion so it wouldn't overwhelm the community. This (somehow) related to the whole "Freedom Fries" incident. By now, I should really know enough to just keep my mouth shut, but I had to mention that it wasn't "some people" it was only ONE very stupid person, and besides "french fries aren't even French!" and before I'd finished my sentence (they're BELGIAN!) our dear friend Richard (guy who knew me at Stuy, remember?) piped up to say "She's Belgian!"
*winces* I guess, back when I didn't have autism to talk about, and nobody was willing to let me talk about linguistics (they still aren't), I spoke about the French fries thing just a little too often.
It's interesting, he's currently on his third paper-extension. I suspect that this is because, y'know, he went to Stuy and, despite the huge percentage of crazy-obsessive-freaks there, quite a few people at Stuy go out of their way never to learn good study habits. I'm not sure if this is Stuy, or them, but I have vivid memories of Mrs. Manwell explaining to us all in Bio why a reverse bell curve was a Bad Thing (everybody either failed or got 100).
Sorry for being tangential.
Anyway, in my Classics class we were talking about Socrates, and his trial, and comedy/tragedy in Athens, and how their plays were cathartic to them, allowing them to get rid of all that negative emotion so it wouldn't overwhelm the community. This (somehow) related to the whole "Freedom Fries" incident. By now, I should really know enough to just keep my mouth shut, but I had to mention that it wasn't "some people" it was only ONE very stupid person, and besides "french fries aren't even French!" and before I'd finished my sentence (they're BELGIAN!) our dear friend Richard (guy who knew me at Stuy, remember?) piped up to say "She's Belgian!"
*winces* I guess, back when I didn't have autism to talk about, and nobody was willing to let me talk about linguistics (they still aren't), I spoke about the French fries thing just a little too often.
It's interesting, he's currently on his third paper-extension. I suspect that this is because, y'know, he went to Stuy and, despite the huge percentage of crazy-obsessive-freaks there, quite a few people at Stuy go out of their way never to learn good study habits. I'm not sure if this is Stuy, or them, but I have vivid memories of Mrs. Manwell explaining to us all in Bio why a reverse bell curve was a Bad Thing (everybody either failed or got 100).
Sorry for being tangential.
