Foucault you!
May 7th, 2004
I am currently studying for my “Poetic Structure and Genre” exam. Grad students aren’t supposed to take exams. We’re supposed to write 20-page-long nightmares that not even our professors will read (and we won’t even read twice). I feel like a college sophomore cramming for my bio quiz the next day. Incidentally, I almost failed college biology.
At this moment, I’m teaching myself the difference between authorial diegesis and auctorial mimesis. That wasn’t a typo. Apparently they’re really different. No offense, grad schoolers, but I’m getting an increasingly oppressive feeling that the professors teach us this crap just because they feel really embarrassed that they’re the only ones who know it. It’s that dorky.
Here’s the dilemma: I could learn anything I get “taught” in grad school by simply reading books. It’s mostly profound realizations based on acquired knowledge, with the realizations being the things that count (at least for me). But I probably wouldn’t read the books unless I was paying for classes.
Oh wait.
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