You know, homework is a lot more fun when you don't have to do it. I have two minors in World Literature so I've had to read several anthologies included the dreaded Norton's, but after I graduated, I took a couple of years and went back and read the Norton's Anthology of World Literature and thoroughly enjoyed it.

And yes, call it my lupine curiosity if you want, but I do and always have enjoyed studying. I took 20 years to go through 10 years of college (the other 10 years was greatly varied work experiences) and even now (since I didn't go digital when they changed the TV format) my main nightly entertainment is college level lectures that I buy from an outfit called The Learning Company and OpenCourseWare I get off the Internet. A large chuck of my website is even dedicated to my "Excursions".

I love nature and that's, after all, what learning is all about.

Horror stories? Graduate school pretty much burned me out on formal college learning. I would go into each course with a syllabus saying, "How am I going to be able to do all this work?" and I would leave the course saying, "How in the world did I do all that work?"

Not usually, but even though I'm not a therian I do sometimes feel like I want to become a dog just long enough to rip my work to shreds in the most brutal fashion possible (I've seen my dog at work), great stress relief if I could do it.

I just hate the amount of time it takes out of a day that is already dominated by school, I can't wait till I get to college where they actually have humane expectations for attendance to classes.

I'm very good in school, I understand stuff hardly anyone else does in math and science and I produce writing of a quality above what most adults can do, plus I remember even insignificant pieces of information that I've learned and if I've read/learned/applied it more than once I can remember even minute details. And yet with all my academic advantages I still loathe having to do any sort of school work on my own time.

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LOL

Awaken, I can see it now.

Teacher: Where's your home work
Awaken: Sorry. I ate it.....
Teacher: ?
Awaken: It was a full moon.

Homework stress? I have had buckets of that over the last two years or so. I think it must be that I take too many credits and it really isn't one class over another that stresses me out but all of them in combination. I find that I can handle research projects, even if they are stressful, as I find them to be quite informative. It is the little assignments that get to me though. I hate doing homework, for homework's sake, or in other words busy work. I have periodically had to drop things and go for a run just to weed out some frustration over the tediousness of the problems.

Hahahahahahahahaha. It would seem college creates an inevitable spiral of homework. As the topic suggests, howling is such a great stress relief. My school even has a night during dead week were everyone howls. It is quite exciting. So not only Therians enjoy a good howl during the homework dump week before finals.

Trust me when I say, home work is a lot easier and better than real work in the real world. Real work blows.

WVZ I'm reading Beginning Psychology - A comprehensive introduction to psychology.
And I was wondering if you've come across any good interesting books on psychology or on any topics that are quite interesting?

ShadyHowl wrote:

Trust me when I say, home work is a lot easier and better than real work in the real world. Real work blows.

Ah, I think I would differ there. I really enjoy the jobs that I have been able to procure in my field of study and I cannot wait to be done with school so I can start to work and by doing so give back to the community.

WolfVanZandt wrote:

I have lots of favorites - 'The Games People Play" by Eric Berne, for instant, or anything by Erving Goffman. I leasn toward social psychology and brain physiology. What are you interested in? There's a lot out there.

I LOVE 'Games People Play'. I once read a really interesting book called 'Life Scripts' too, but I can't remember the author

human behavior is one of the most fascinating objects of study in the universe.

I've also enjoyed every real job I've had (by real job I don't mean working part time at the local drive in or similar, I'm talking actual full time work that involves more than just ringing up purchases and the like), of course I've only had one but it was great.