the worst paper of all time

just came back from school. physically and mentally drained. what a bad day. physically cos of choir. mentally cos of my exam. read on!

very sad about my cultural studies. it was horrible. really. seriously. it is without doubt my worst paper ever. in my life till now. you know exactly how bad it was? i'll tell you. i opened the paper, looked at the questions. 5 qns choose 2. and i couldn't understand a single one. really. i looked at all 5 and i was thinking, shit, what's this mess?! and for the first time in my life, i considered handing in a blank paper. *sobsobcrycry* it was that bad. here's a sample of the questions (the 2 that i finally crapped up an answer for anyway. thank god it was an essay.)

1. John Fiske claims that, for Cultural Studies, Culture "is neither aesthetic nor humanist in emphasis, but political" (Fiske). With reference to one or more cultural object(s), discuss the political emphasis of Cultural Studies.

4. Michael Schudson notes that Cultural Studies has been responsible for revising the notion of popular culture entirely. The result, he argues, has been "a salutary new evaluation of popular culture combined with an undiscriminatingly sentimental view of it" (Schudson). With reference to any cultural object show how you would discriminate between sentimental celebration and critical evaluation.

what. da. hell.

ok, it doesn't seem that much of a mess now. but it was then. i didn't know how to approach the thing. and i was so tempted to use kafka or ionesco to answer qn 1. i ended up using george orwell's "animal farm". total crap lah. i have no idea what i wrote. i think i ended up with a highly GP-ised answer with references here and there to my cultural objects. and if i'm going to fail anything, it's this. it didn't help at all that the column next to me was doing advanced macroecons and had HUGE stacks of notes all over their desks. nor that some guy taking CS left the hall 40 minutes early. even the genius kevin said that it was not at all what he expected. poor jean was sitting in the front row, eyeball-to-eyeball with AP philips and ma shao ling. wan yun left early too. but don't know how it was for her cos didn't see her after the paper.

prof philips lied btw. he said, no need to study, we can do it. *rolls eyes* choke on pears man! this is one module that desperately needs a tutorial. the lectures are so deceiving. and he never ever gave us any practice at all. in fact, i don't think he ever discussed how we're supposed to be tested (the content that is. he went through the format) so the first time we're ever writing a cultural studies essay is during the exam.

*goodness gracious! great balls of fire!!!*

hello F!