Hell No! We Won't Go! Well, I guess maybe. Depends if theres a cover.

I just wrote a 16 page paper for one of my classes. I am a creative writing major and it is the longest thing I have written all semester. It was a summary of The Golden Compass, a fantastic fantasy novel that I read in junior high. It was the single piss-poorest assignment I have ever done. I am quite mad that I did it. What a complete and utter waste of time. Why did U of A put this professor in charge of 600 students 3 hours a week? I give a vote of zero confidence. Just...what an utter waste of time. Give me a prompt. "How did the author use human and animal relationships to further the narrative?" Something like that. Don't tell me to summarize every chapter. Ask a fifth grader to do that. Actually don't cause its a pointless assignment for them, but at least theyre not paying for that education and if they blow it off they won't incur the wrath of a lowered gpa. The classes I hate are the hardest. That makes sense I suppose, and I'm glad I'm not inherently opposed to organized academics. A part of me, no, ok, all of me, loses self respect when I actually participate in this ruse of academics.