Impatience
June 29, 2009I’m too impatient to wait until my suking DVD vendor is flooded with this:
If I only had cable television I should be able to watch this on KBS World.
Health / education
It is not good that non-medicine or health science graduates of the UP Manila should finish with little knowledge or appreciation of medicine or even the human body. There’s too much of environmental science but, for those taking degree programs in the social sciences and humanities, there’s little of even basic human anatomy. It is neglect – the school is assuming that everyone is going to take anatomy in their curriculum, and the rest who are not taking it are relatively unimportant in the allocation of the University’s (poorly-paid) human resources.
The UP Manila, in line with its claim of being the health sciences center of the country, should open a GE course that will address the seeming ignorance of non-medicine related graduates on matters that concern the human body. History 4 is a step towards that goal, but what I mean is a subject under the MST cluster. One of the goals of the GE course should be to produce students that are conscious of their health and of health issues that affect the nation.
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It is demoralizing to find a professor who doesn’t know what his pancreas should do.
But then, I don’t know either.
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Why is the library closed during lunch breaks? Is this temporary, or is it a new policy?
For a person in my condition, reading in the library is infinitely better than eating at our awful canteen. Paper cellulose may be indigestible, but neither is the chemical and pathogenic cocktail they serve there.
I’m dispossessed of a place I can call “my own”. There’s none left.
Which brings us to the question “Why didn’t I graduate last April?”
Notification
I’m lending myself vulnerable to surveillance, but then, we have to inject some predictability into our lives to give it order and amenable to synchronization.
Sunday or Monday: Five to nine
Thursday: Three to nine
Friday: Three to nine
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Savoir pour prévoir, prévoir pour pouvoir. (Know in order to predict, predict in order to be able to do something.)
Attributed to Condorcet (France, eighteenth century)
