Jesus, I'm dreading college.
Anyway, I won't be having exams for another 2 weeks or so, but the only one I'm worried about is English.
Normally I love English. If you look at my posts, I tend to go over them a lot to check for grammatical errors and such. This semester, however, our new teacher completely ruined English by turning it into a History lesson.
Now, this new teacher is really obsessive about digressing books, finding motifs, and searching for themes in books. Her recent idea was to have us learn about "Man's inhumanity to man". First semester, we read crap about racism and such like "Of Mice and Men", and "To Kill a Mockingbird".
Those books were fine, since it was related to what she was suppose to be teaching, but this semester, she pulls out the "Holocaust" theme on us.
First, she gives us hundreds of handouts about anti-Semetism (spelling?) and discrimination against Jews. This seemed a bit off-coarse from literature, but now she goes through an entire month about the events that lead up to the Holocaust, the Holocaust itself, and the results of the Holocaust.
Watching videos, reading biographies about Riddler, it was turning into a History lesson. History is my worst subject, mainly because I never actually gave a stuff about how exactly George Washington lead the revolution, or why exactly Riddler was a psycho.
It was getting out of hand, and everyone was getting frustrated since we were learning little details about the exact same thing every week.
Finally she tosses the final assignment at us: buy a $10 book and read it all in 3 weeks.
It was a tiny book. Simple. But I read some reviews online and I saw that it was one of the most boring books people have ever read. Not only that, but it goes into intense detail about the horrors of the concentration camps - those of which we had listened to her lecture about for 4 weeks straight. I was angry, didn't have all that much money to spend, and refused to buy the book in the first place.
Then, she tells us that the English final will be half based on this book, and half on the facts about the Holocaust. Of coarse, this was loving stupid.
Luckily, since the book was so damn boring, no one else in the class payed attention to it, so she ended up having to go over the whole plot, details, and basically summarizing the book. Now, the 5 people who didn't buy the book, including me, know just as much about it as those of which who bought the book.
TL;DR: My teacher turned English into History, and now the English exam is a History exam.
