English 101 about killed me. It took half the quarter to figure out that the woman just read published reviews of the books we were reviewing. If we were not agreeing with these published reviews we got a D or F. She was a mean teacher. Had half the class terrified and hated men. We had 2 girls in the class and you could see them cringe when she would say "lets get a woman's opinion now."
I remember reading one story that had a character named "Manly Pointer." One friend of mine said that his name was phallic. I agreed but said that the published review said nothing on that and I didn't include it. I remember she counted 5 points off on his paper for saying it was a phallic reference.
She skipped and took a story from the English 102 story list. I got a C- on it. Well, in English 102, we got to the same story. I was busy with another project and at the last minute, I just resubmitted my paper from English 101. I got an A.
Graduate school had real hard classes (not figuring out teachers). I would say one of the hardest was helping design a tritium producing tokamak fusion reactor that should only generate low level radioactive waste. At least I got a publication out of that.
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