Comments | maltesewarrior: School update.

maltesewarrior

School update.

Oct 26, 2009 15:13

I realized I haven't talked much about school, lately, besides my LJ post and subsequent comments in which I ranted about my biology class. It ain't all bad. Here's the goings-on, as I recently typed up in an email to my grandmother ( Read more... )

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maltesewarrior October 28 2009, 05:17:40 UTC

It's not a stretch, because that's an accurate statement - homo sapien is, indeed, an invasive species. But that's not what the course description said the course was about, at all. It said it was a class that would research and discuss solutions to various invasive species (plural) around the world. If she wanted to do a special "surprise, humans are an invasive species!" unit at the end of the semester or something, I'd have been cool with that. But no. We're getting on to November, and I still have had nothing but ecology, conservation and environmentalism assignments. The teacher is just unprofessional and the course description was just misleading. It happens. 6 more weeks and I won't ever have to deal with it again.

lostlo October 27 2009, 16:22:54 UTC

Sounds like it's going pretty well, I'm glad! Sucks about the bio class though, invasive species is a cool topic. One of Chuck Palahniuk's novels actually touches on it quite a bit, I always thought that was neat and surprising.

maltesewarrior October 28 2009, 05:19:03 UTC

Thanks for the encouragement. Indeed, invasive species would have been an awesome thing to study.

Which of Chuck's book is that in? Are you referring to Rant, maybe?

lostlo October 28 2009, 16:05:51 UTC

Nope, I haven't read any of his recent stuff. I didn't know he did one called Rant.

The characters were traveling around the country on a road trip, and he kept mentioning the now-uniform forests which seemed natural but were actually the destroyed remains of the former biodiversity in the US. I'm thinking it was Lullaby, and the road trip was to get copies of the poem.

It wasn't exactly the topic of the book, just one of his weird thematic devices. But as a bio nerd I loved it.

maltesewarrior October 28 2009, 16:31:19 UTC

Boy, it's been a while since I've read Lullaby. It also could have been Invisble Monsters - much of that book takes place on the road, and the whole uniform-but-not-natural theme would have fit into that book quite well.

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