Descartes, you fool.
I don't know if I can take much more of it. I may have to ask you to kill me now. This Visual Communication class has gotten bad, to the point of hellish. It is not a journalism class, despite what duckhunt says. J. Newton, the prof, has taken a middle-school psychology book, torn out and watered down the small chapter on visual psychology, thrown in some of her own personal experiences in mediocre photojournalism, fed the whole mess to her dog and given what was passed out the other end to us poor, suffering, students, whom she treasures as kindergarten experiments. I must suppress my murderous rage. I must not smack her when she makes us do "visualizations." While she could have taught a sucessfull class and perhaps based one session on the effects of the media upon our subconscious, instead we must focus on images of the family and speak about how they make us feel

The woman thinks she is a philosopher. "Hahve you read ma book?" she croons in her Texas dialect. We've spent the last few periods hearing her bash Descartes who, apparently, has led society on the "entirely wrong track." Not that I neccisarily disagree that "I think therefore I am" could be "I feel therefore I am," but she leaves no room for subjectivity. Please don't bash a philosopher and assume what you know is true. Even Descartes gives his reasons. What's really killer is that on top of all this, most of the class consists of her spouting mindless definitions of "vision," "perception," "consciousness," "the unconscious," "reason," "intuition," and "dreams" at us. As if College Students have no idea what the difference between reason and intuition is. Gooooodddd.... this is amazing and stupid. It's like high school all over again. She even takes attendance.


I'll just have to pretend it's an experiment in torture psychology to get through it. I know Jan can sympathize. In fact, read his latest entry.

Well, we journalism majors certainly are able to bitch and moan. Believe me, the journalism department will get an earful.


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You are Faye Valentine
Beautiful, smart, deadly, and a bit crazy. You were frozen for awhile, dig gambling, think men are babies and owe a lot of money to a lot of people.
Which Cowboy Bebop Character Are You?