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Wow, okay, as much as this International Political Economy class is kicking my ass, I'm glad I'm taking it, because I'm quickly realizing that whatever history we were taught in high school was such a pathetically small, select glance. It doesn't even count as the tip of an iceberg. It's the tip of the tip of the iceberg.

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yeeea school system sucks. =/

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History classes were too focused on exact names and dates, but the ridiculous thing is that you can look up any of that information in like .001 seconds on your Blackberry or whatever. History teachers should try to get kids to have a better ~overall~ understanding of the United States and its relationship with the rest of the world. I'm pretty sure my teacher ran out of time and we never even mentioned the Cold War. Which is pretty ridiculous, because think of all the stuff they cram down your throat in a quarter at college, and we had a whole friggin' year.

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Yea... All that crap about APUSH like, needing to memorize all the presidents or whatever and specific dates? In my Japanese history class we only need to know about significant emperors cause there have been like 180 of em. It's nice to have a time line, but it shouldn't be the goal of the whole class definitely. It just annoys me that high school runs by semester and takes so long to cover a topic that could have been covered in a quarter. But what are we gonna do about it? We've suffered through it, not like we're gonna go to the school and tell em to change their failure of a curriculum. =/

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See, I didn't take APUSH. So I'm pretty sure my class was viewed as a bunch of hopelessly retarded losers.

We could invent a time machine and then, after traveling to May 2010 to see the Iron Man II premier, we could go back in time and hire a proper teacher. O: