So I'm new here and found this site while putting off writing three essays. Those essays are now done and exam period has started. Right now I'm supposed to be writing a take home exam... but I'm not!

I kind of screwed myself over on this one. We had to read People of the Deer, and I read it. We had to read The Diviners, and I still have 154 pages left, and the exam is due on Tuesday. Apparently I'm not reading it right now. I could skip the question on the Diviners and answer the one on alienation, agency, individuation and deindividuation, but I HATE explaining those and the readings that apply to them are far more boring than The Diviners. But I will actually start answering the question for The Diviners soon and just not worry about the stuff in the last 154 pages.

I'm excited that school's almost over for the year, but at the same time, my stomach is HATING it. It's always the first thing to go whenever life isn't as smooth sailing as I would like it to be, which just adds to the stress of everything else. I'm not too worried about the other exams, I'll obviously have to do some studying, but I'm not freaked out about them. I think it helped that I actually liked the courses. Well, except for anthropology, but that was more the professor than the actual course material.

I've taken two anthropology courses and haven't liked either of the professors. I understand that anthropology doesn't get too many students, but they're we're-the-most-important-field-nothing-else-is-as-important attitude really ticks me off. And I just felt that a lot of the professors "evidence" was extremely weak and fluffy. I know statistics aren't really reliable, but talking about what three anthropologists found regarding women's attitudes towards sex in Western Africa isn't really all that reliable either and shouldn't be used to explain women in Nova Scotia's behaviour. They're very different cultures, and an anthropologist should be very aware of this!

I also hate how he always starts his lecture with, "I plan to discuss which I found to be very interesting and think will shock your world. After all, I love teaching this course because I think it shakes your perception of the world around you."

NOTHING HE SAID AMAZED ME! Everything he said I either knew before even starting university or in my other courses before his (and those were non-anthropology courses). So clearly, what he had to say really wasn't enough to "shake my perception of the world."

And knocking sociology students to make anthropology look cool isn't cool. None of my sociology professors have said anything negative about anthropology, so why the hostility from the anthropologists? And why should I be paying to hear him talk smack about my major?

But whatever, I'm not taking an anthropology course next year.