Dammit

I had class tonight. Three and a half hours of mind-melting, brain-numbing, soul-crushing, Cliché-inducing class.

Don't the damn instructors have anywhere better to be! Surely they have family that miss them or beer to drink or games to play or therapists to see or... something. Anything has to be better than sitting in a room droning on about accounting to 16 people who JUST DON'T GIVE A SHIT!

They even have the gall to make the damn things compulsory. Why? If I want to skip class and miserably fail because I don't know any of the content, isn't that my prerogative? Isn't that some kind of academic Darwinism at work?

I think it would actually be better if you LOST marks for attending class. Obviously the brightest students, who can work things out for themselves, shouldn't be punished by being forced to go to a class an listen to someone tell them what they already know.

Plus, it would add an exciting tactical element to the course. Struggling with a concept? Do you concede the 5 marks to attend class and gamble that the extra tuition will help you make them up in the final or do you wing it? How much more exciting it that.

Hot fucking damn I think i am on to something.

Add cash prizes and a "Sale of the Century" style final exam and study could almost be fun.

Think about it.

DTN.