This had a point when I started.

[the_wanlorn]

Studying is a funny thing, yeah? I don't study. Well, no, I rarely study. If I'm trying to learn a new language, I have to in order to remember the words. (Well, no, if the teacher gave HW that required me to translate the word from English to $LANGUAGE a couple of times in sentences or whatever, I wouldn't need to study. Give me a singular noun in Italian and ask me to pluralize it! I can do it, 'cause I did HW that had me do it a couple ten times! Thus proving that I don't learn by flashcards or reading or listening or whatever, I learn by doing over and over and over again.) Why hello there paragraph eating parenthetical statement! So, I suppose I do study. But my version of studying involves "doing all my HW (or at least until I know I can do whatever it is in my sleep)" and "reading the material if I really really need to". Which is why, today and tomorrow, you will find me attempting to read half a semester's worth of American Lit. So far, I've got Zuni poetry down (Sayatasha's Night Chant), Aztec poetry down (The Singer's Art, Two Songs, Like Flowers Continually Perishing), Cabeza de Vaca down (La Realacione), The Appearance of the Virgin of Guadalupe down, and supposedly Colombus down (it's crossed off my list, but I read it in the beginning of the semester, so I don't really remember it). The first part of our midterm is going to consist of identifying passages (where they're from, who they're by, and what's their significance). And, quite frankly, I keep having to remind myself that there is a point in reading the material. See, I'm fairly certain that I won't be able to do the IDing thing even if I read everything. Putting names with titles with passages? When some of these titles are TWO LINES LONG? Not so much... On the other hand, it will be fairly impossible to do if I don't read anything. So I have to do the reading. Or, at least, that's what I keep telling myself. I hate American Lit.

Comments

[crazyasitsounds.livejournal.com]

See, I would love to be taking a literature class because I feel like I don't read anymore unless it's something assigned.

Also, I wish I were still taking Italian.

[spookyblonde.livejournal.com]

I just hate this kind of test. "how many authors will be on the test?" "as many as I can fit..."