Libertarian Boyfriend talked me into taking a Gen Ed history course: American Military Culture. He is done almost all of his core and major requirements, just needs to fill out his schedule with electives and thought it would be fun for us. (Especially in light of our personal opinions on war and the military.) Since I’m a Women’s Studies & US History double major, I was totally okay with taking a history elective together – though, for the record, I totally tried to talk him into taking Youth, Sex & Romance in Post-WWII America.

This is the most hellish course I have ever taken. We have 2 7-10 page essays, a 3 page paper, and a 1 page-ish quiz….but our reprieve was a take-home midterm and a take-home final.

At least I thought.

Today, I walked into class and learned that our fucking midterm is supposed to be

7 – 10 motherfucking pages

So our final will probably be the same length, meaning that it’s a required minimum of 32 fucking pages of writing. If you do the maximum, it’s 44 fucking pages of writing. That’s about a fucking CAPSTONE. And that 44 pages doesn’t include the plethora of extra-credit assignments (all one page reflective essay garbage papers) throughout the semester.

Libertarian Boyfriend asked to clarify on the length and – big shocker – our fucking idiot professor’s response was “is that too much? I figured that this is the generation of email and Twitter!” Yes, because that has anything to fucking do with anything. That really has a goddamn thing to do with the fucking workload for a LOWER LEVEL GENERAL EDUCATION COURSE. (Not to mention the fact that at least one person in the class is not from the generation this idiot is referring to, but thanks dude, I guess I’m flattered that you think I’m 22.)

How the fuck am I going to get this fucking shit done (plus my other courses), in light of the fact that I have some major personal issues, am trying to quit smoking and I’d ideally like to have a fucking job by the end of the semester? OH THAT’S COOL, I’LL JUST TWITTER THAT SHIT.

Fucking idiot.

Temple students: Avoid Greg Urwin like the plague. Fuck what all the ROTC kids claim on Rate my Professors and fuck the fact that he was an extra in Glory. I mean, unless you like taking a 3 credit course that has the workload of a 6 credit course. In that case, go fuckin’ wild, dawg!

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