January 2005 Archives
This entry was originally posted at Homogenized and later merged into Neckbeard. Images and links may be broken. Sorry.
It makes me a little bit sad inside that COM 106: Writing for Communications Practitioners is a required class for the journalism major. Why does it make me sad? Because as it turns out, COM 106 is a grammar class. Yes, grammar. As in nouns, prepositions, semicolons and subject-verb agreement. I'm not only sad that I, personally, have to take it; I'm also sad that students wanting to go into the field of journalism (journalism!) had such poor grammar that the school thought a remedial English course might be a good idea.
It's sort of like organic chemistry majors having to first take BIO 106: Model Volcanos That Explode With Baking Soda. Don't you think?
This entry was originally posted at Homogenized and later merged into Neckbeard. Images and links may be broken. Sorry.
On our last day in Paris, we visited the Louvre. After several hours we began our walk out of the Louvre, through the Tuileries, towards the Place de la Concorde. A light rain started falling. Light rains had been falling for the entirety of the trip, and despite being from drought-stricken California I was now used to them. Then it started to rain harder, and in the course of one minute what felt like golf ball-sized rain drops flew from the sky, pelting us, covering and soaking through every square inch and layer of clothing we had on. That's what today was like, except today it was in Southern California, and I had classes to attend, books to buy, and work to walk to. And I forgot my umbrella.
