I just cannot bring myself to pretend to half-assedly care about convergent boundaries and plate tectonics any more. The ridiculous charade of a science class that I am taking this summer is chipping away at what little faith I have left in the absurdist theater piece known as higher education. Did I just use two similes in one sentence? I do believe I did. Good thing no-one's grading this, I might run the risk of getting a less than perfect score and have to feel terrible about myself.
Seriously, though, school fucking sucks. I am taking a science class and a music class because they are the last two things I need to get my associate's, and neither one is worth my time and energy, nor the paper I waste taking notes and drawing cartoons of people driving pencils into their eyeballs. There's just No Point to any of it.
I know enough about music to appreciate it. Six goddam years of piano lessons, three of music theory, and four of high school music class including band, choir, and percussion ensemble means I know all any average non-musician person needs to know about music. I wonder if I can test out of the class. I bet I can't. I bet that's something I would have needed to know about six months before even signing up for the stupid fucking class.
A college degree is nothing more than a glorified mix of a receipt and a certificate of attendance. It really, truly doesn't matter if you learn anything or not. It doesn't matter whether or not you retain any of the pap that you cram into your brain so that you can regurgitate it on command. All you have to do is show up, make some semblance of effort, do what you're told, and pass a predetermined selection of classes, preferably in a four year period. I have never met anyone and thought, good gracious, they're clever, I wonder what their college GPA was? Nor have I ever met anyone who struck me as dull and inept and thought, gee whillikers, I bet this one doesn't have a nice shiny degree hanging on their wall. Why the fuck do we care? At what point did we decide that people could only possess intelligence if they went tens of thousands of dollars into debt to acquire tangible proof of it?
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