Sunday 18 Apr 2004
Interesting but never-reached
In the backs of textbooks there was material you could tell was interesting. The school year would always end before we got to it.
— Carl Sagan, in the preface to The Demon-Haunted World
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are you sad the semester is almost over? i know i feel that my cumulative finals are lacking interesting content… but i’m not in calculus… in high school we had similarly sized books that took us the whole year to finish half of, now, we finish half the book in half the time.
Comment by Mimi Flynn | Sunday 18 Apr 2004, 9:03 am
Yeah, that quote just struck me as being something I’ve always thought. The back of the book always has general relativity or World War II or modern art or whatever in it. Always looks cool but the class never seems to get there.
I’m not too sad about the semester being almost over — I’m actually pretty happy about it in a way. This semester has been rough. I almost wish I had a few more weeks to prepare for finals, though.
Comment by Grady Haynes | Friday 23 Apr 2004, 9:18 pm