pipistrellafelix | why college requirement systems kill me (Reply)

So to graduate with a history major I need to take both HIST 202 and HIST 201, which are the required classes on, basically, How To Do History Stuff. I'm in HIST 202 now, Historiography, which is the study of history itself and how it's been viewed; we're looking at the movement from Modernist to Postmodernist history. Now, this is all good stuff in its own right, and I am definitely of the opinion that one shouldn't graduate a history major without being exposed to all of this.
The problem is, I already have. I know all this. We're reading anthologies and bits and scraps of various philosophers, nearly all of whom I read in the original in sophomore year. This is the trouble with being in honors, I suppose. And I know I sound really pretentious and everything, but, guys, I'm so bored. History is not supposed to bore me. I talked about my thesis last night & realized I still find the whole thing fascinating. I love history. I just hate this class. Not even Dr. Kangas is going to save me.
It's a ton of reading; and "critical journals" for everything we read, so we come to class prepared to talk. About the only thing I'm excited for are the papers (how sad is that), because they're on the English Civil War. But I'm only mildly excited for them. I really hate being bored in college. That's not what college is for.
SNARK.

But last night was good--Anna, Claire and Anneka came over, we made far too much food and drink, hung out, talked about girly things. It was nice to have that. Read Cosmo, which is a totally ridiculous magazine. Crashed on the floor and couches before midnight. Woke up and made eggs (& now I have no more eggs). We cleaned up, so the kitchen is now cleaner than it has been since Cozy left for the weekend.
She gets back tomorrow morning; I have one night by myself. I am going to force myself to do homework (guys, it's so hard! I hate it), & then watch the Jane Austen special on PBS. Lord what would I do without PBS, I just don't know.

I finished a rough draft of my first poem assignment. I keep having all these thoughts that I think should make good poems, but they don't really need poetry--they want plain language. So I'll sort them out. But I have history reading to do first. OH, ARGH.