So Its my last semester at Scripps. Scary. Anyways I have this one class, called Anarchist History and Thought that is taught at Pitzer. I originally thought, of this will be kinda easy, we'll just have fun reading and learning about different anarchists. Kinda like my china class, which I enjoyed. But man does this professor not play around.
I read the syllabus and she says that "Accordingly, in this course, evaluation will not result in a grade. As elaborated upon below, all students enrolled in the course and complete the work assigned will receive an "A" on their transcript. In this course, evaluation will be solely for the purpose of edification, and will be reserved strictly for participating members of the course collective"
Oooh collective. joking aside, I had always thought I was an advocate for classes without arbitrary grading systems that don't really measure intelligence per say, but your intelligence in beating the education system. This is not to say that my views have changed since reading Summerhill, but they are about to be tested? Either way, it will be an interesting class for sure.
A friend of mine who took it last semester says its a lot of reading, work, and that she had to argue for her grade, and some other ppl in the class argued for her too, but she didn't fail the class, it was just an alternate experience that she had had before.
Speaking of failing, I haven't talked to neither of my thesis advisors since the beginning of winter break. Avoidance much?
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