My gf is studying English Literature so I got to see what's it all about, and holy shit it's the fakest shit ever. You'd THINK it's about doing some sort of real "analysis" of texts, maybe throw in some historical context, the author's biography and background, whatever really. But no, it's just shit like "highlight instances where the protagonist uses different tones when speaking to different characters".I mean Jesus Christ, that's highschool shit, isn't it? It's basically just checking if you read the thing and were paying attention. Literally braindead.
Government indoctrination centres are designed to indoctrinate and not educate, what else is new
Sorry but I can't get over this. Imagine reading something like Brothers Karamazov and then your final assignment is to name all the different characters and their relationship with each other. Like how the fuck is this real?
>>25418619that wasn't my uni experience at all. are you talking about your gf's course or literary studies in general? there are obviously many books you could read if you want to see what good academic-level work looks like.
>>25418619In general the reason women are pushed to attend college is to reduce the birth rate. Filling women’s heads with psuedo knowledge is a bonus.
>biography = analysis
>>25418619I took an intro literature class at a state college as a non english major and we definitely analyzed literature.
>>25418619Imagine eating cereal then finding a penis in it
>>25418983Okay. Now what?
This is why all the high IQ people who go into the humanities are in Philosophy and maybe stuff like Classics and Linguistics. Literature, Sociology, Psychology and the bottom drags of "Drama" or "Creative Writing" are just daycares for retards with rich parents.
>>25418619During my 200-level English Lit course, I wrote a complete schizobabble essay wherein I argued that the characters of Mansfield park act as allegorical representations of various classes in BritainI also did a pretty lame essay on a couple Borges stories that was mostly just "heres how some of his work evince these aspects of his biography," and got a 98 on it.It's pretty fake.I got a 95.
>>25419173I fucked up my delivery of this. the 95 was supposed to follow my first point, and there was no reason to put spaces into anything this short. The way the text shows up in the box makes it look like its gonna take more lines than it does. Sorry anons.
I don't know why exactly you would want to note that, unless you were trying to imply that someone is manipulative or has a weak personality. Maybe in high school, some of it is just being able to demonstrate comprehension. Compare this to like the average catlic, who does not even have comprehension, but only recites, and prefers to only have verbatim recitations.
Does she attend a state school in an American red state?
>>25419175uh oh: redditor!
>>25419149Literature classes are very good at some schools, but otherwise agreed, especially on psychology
>>25419236No she goes to Kashmir Technical College, why?
>>25418619Your gf just goes to a shitty school.
>>25418619I dunno why would anyone waste their time and money on university to study humanities. Like, at least sciences and engineering have an objective standard and a helpful exchange of ideas. But crap like psychology or philosophy? Completely useless in any metric.
>>25421438>I dunno why would anyone waste their time and money on university to study humanitiesInterchangeable degrees that "qualify" you when your parents get you a job via connections. >But crap like psychologyPsychology at least has career paths in clinical or counseling applications. If you're taking it at a school where you get a BA instead of a BSc it's a red flag though.
Post the cheerios thing
>>25419173>I also did a pretty lame essay on a couple Borges stories that was mostly just "heres how some of his work evince these aspects of his biography," and got a 98 on it.that seems like a perfectly sensible topic for a paper. not everything has to be revolutionary or grand-scale.
>>25418983But I already had cereal with penis this morning
>>25421438I studied an engineering field and if I could go back in time, I 100% would have chosen to study humanities.For some reason I was not cognizant of the fact that most people meet their spouse either at school or at work.It seems to me that I missed some great years for socializing and meeting women, and now I am older with less energy and stuck in my ways.
>>25418619When people ask me if I went to writing school, I tell them, "No, I went to /lit/ - Literature".
>>25418619>highlight instances where the protagonist uses different tones when speaking to different charactersthat is analysis tho
>>25421438The humanities uses both objective and subjective standards, retard. Transjective also applies if you're talking philosophy.
>>25423216what abt cisjective tho
>>25418729Girls go to college to get more knowledge;Boys go to Jupiter to get more stupider!
>>25423226you lost
>>25421676But what if you didn’t, how would that feel?
>>25424592It would feel like there was a penis shaped hole in my morning routine
>>25421696>It seems to me that I missed some great years for socializing and meeting women, and now I am older with less energy and stuck in my ways.Incel alert
