Teacher (*finishes explaining class assignments, involving weekly discussion posts on our many pages of reading, four film/sporting event reviews, leading discussion at least twice, and a final project*): "so, any questions?"
Me (quietly, to myself): "...when."

In theory, the advantage of having a compulsive need to get everything done as early as possible is that I then have more time to look over it and change it if it needs to be improved.

In practice . . . I don't ever look at it again.

Me, not a Marxist*, entering a field of study closely aligned with Marxism in which my current teacher very much is a Marxist and many aspects of her lecture yesterday aligned with those ideals: maybe I'm always already imprisoned by the hegemonic ideas of the ruling class or whatever, but I sure hope we interrogate who this "we" is and what exactly "we" want.

*not to suggest that I'm opposed to the ideals of Marxism, but I haven't done the study required to really understand what it means to be a Marxist, and I can understand and complain about the all-consuming presence of capitalism with the rest, but I don't tend to be of the "abolish it all" framework for anything of its own merits, at least in terms of methodology, and I tend to feel like there is a lot of assumption in social justice movements that everyone is automatically on the same page without a lot of clarifying what exactly that page is

work tricked me into thinking group projects could be good; now I'm in school and I remember why they are the root of all evil.

actually now that I think about it most work group projects I've done have been pretty uneven too, but at least I was getting paid

and liked the people I was working with