This is a sad little story about my recent attempt at being academically adventurous. Winter break is over and for the new semester I thought I would try out humanities & history instead of the usual corporate mumbo jumbo that I am most comfortable with. First class in the afternoon today, and I was constantly oscillating between trying very hard to suppress my giant yawns and perspiring (despite today being the coldest day recorded this winter) with dread and being generally clueless. The moment I got out of the lecture I ran to my laptop and immediately dropped all "adventurous" classes and added all my "international finances", "financial analysis" back on the list. I attended one of my comfort classes in the evening and felt such a warm rush of familiarity. Ugh! I hate this. I thought I would learn about the Nuremberg trials and the Fourteenth Amendment and the Civil War and Media Rights and what not. And I will spew forth sentences like "In our egalitarian society...", "The barbaric nature of war crimes is a reflection of modern day depravity that is a direct result of .... ", etc. etc. And I will be such a hipster. But I guess these are all wrong reasons for trying to learn such subjects. The only subjects that I want to learn because of the right reasons (i.e, interest in the area) are sadly the very mundane rules and regulations of the corporate and securities. FML!
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