Wednesday, July 12, 2006

I've decided that Anthropology is more effort than its worth. Its a three credit class, that I'm taking over the summer, and I really couldn't care less about it. I just spent the last 4.5 hours writing a "case study" on classical music as a western art form. I mostly bs-ed it, and I'm curious to see how he takes it. He wants 8 sources to be cited for the rough draft. I only have 3, and they're all websites. He said something in class about not liking websites. It's looking like I'll have to go to the library and find a book or 5 that relates marginally with my topic, and paraphrase something just to use it as a source. I find it irritating that first hand knowledge of a subject doesn't count unless someone else has written it down and printed it. I mean, I know how to read music, and I can deduce why music was written in that way in the first place, at least well enough to summarize it for a six page paper. I really don't like having to give someone else credit for a thought that isn't novel enough to really need a citation.

In any case, I'm tired of writing, so I'm gonna stop now.