How very high school

To say the least, I am very excited to finally be done with this film class and professor. I managed to restrain my comments on the evaluation to one notebook page, single-spaced, featuring the phrases "waste of my time", "difference between culturally-significant and personal taste", "not as advertised", "treated like high schoolers".

This last one really kicked in again today as I finished writing my final paper. Admittedly, I get to write about Priscilla Queen of the Desert, which is one of my favorite films. And I applied some queer theory to it. But the fact that I made a strong, substantiated, non-fluffed argument in 5.5 pages instead of 6-8 meant that I had to resort to high school tactics. Suddenly, I am playing with fonts and margins, filling paragraphs with extraneous adjectives and plot description. I have had to do this kind of crap since I was a sophomore in high school. It's just really frustrating, because with just about any other professor, especially at the graduate level, I am able to write something strong, succinct and just believe in the integrity of my writing instead of trying to cater to some checklist of how many sources, what font point size and margin maximums. Really, it's just insulting. Oh well, that's done, and now I can focus on much greater things.
on the tube: Cubs and Sox in pre-season