The End of the Semester

Though finals have yet to begin, I'm doing this post now in order that I might do other topics next week, when I'm brain dead from all the essays and trying to figure out what to say.  This is the post where I tell you THINGS I LEARNED THIS SEMESTER.

ACADEMICS:

1. HISTORY: THE SIXTIES: If you want to stage a protest, the 60s were a good time to do it.
2. GREEK: THE GREEK EPIC: Odysseus was a braggart, and his companions were dumb.  To be fair, though, he didn't tell them anything, so a lot of what they got into was his fault.
3. JOURNALISM: MEDIA AND SOCIETY: Advertising isn't a media, but it damn well knows how to adapt to the new media markets.
4. HONORS: KING ARTHUR IN LITERATURE: The love triangle was a French invention. Also, the characters are more complex than you might think. Also, just read all of it, because it's sometimes worth a laugh.
5. HONORS: MAKING MATH: Non-Euclidian geometry is super confusing.

FRIENDS:

1. Be honest with people.
2. If you like someone, say so.
3. If you don't like someone, say so.
4. Friends sometimes drift apart. This is not always a bad thing.
5. Friends sometimes stick together. This is not always a good thing.
6. Friends get frustrated with people you like. As much as you want to them to see the other side, it doesn't always work.
7. People are sometimes assholes.
8. People are sometimes great.
9. People sometimes need to get over themselves.