Yesterday I further confirmed that I am going to fall asleep in my genes and genomes class. We spent the entire 50 minutes going over extremely slowly (but not much detail) the differences between DNA and RNA, such as DNA is double stranded and RNA is single stranded. Ya know, stuff we covered in intro to intro to biology. I can't tell if this is just the opening to the class and it'll get harder, or this really is the class material. I would've thought intermediate genetics would have been more complicated than this.
I'm absolutely loving my philosophy class so far. Reading Aristotle completely threw me for a loop, but my professor is fantastic. Even just in the lecture he helped clarify some of the things I had read, so I can only imagine how helpful the tutes are going to be after this as well, when we really dive into the readings. I have a newfound appreciation for the work philosophy majors have to do! I don't think I could spend an entire lifetime arguing over what people in the past said and what they meant.
Yesterday I was also baffled with just how many people come in late for lectures. I understand some people have a bad start to the day or what not, but some people will just nonchalantly enter the classroom a half hour into it and really take their time deciding on a seat, saying hi to their friends, letting the door slam behind them. It's so distracting, and I feel like at Wooster would not be tolerated at all. A lot of students don't even show up for the lectures because they are all recorded online, but I can't help but think what are they paying for? We pay at least something like 400 dollars per lecture, so every time you miss one it's like pouring 400 dollars down the drain. Well, I also feel like I'm doing that when I go to my genes and genomes class, so maybe with some classes students just feel like they're wasting their money whether they go to class or not. Hm.
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