The hardest class you've ever taken.

[Whateverist]

At Cal I took Intellectual History from Martin Jay I think his name was. I liked a lot of it but I just couldn't take Marxism seriously and there was so much of it. For the final we were told to bring two blue books to write two essays in two hours. We were given a page of about 20 questions from which two would be chosen. So it took a good amount of time to rough out a plan for each eventuality. Fortunately there wasn't a Marxism question on it but there was a Heidegger one. And though I took an upper division course on the guy the same quarter I'd be lying if I thought I had the skinny on that guy. So I filled out both blue books in the two hours. My hand was so numb by the end of it. Got an A- on the final and for the course. Meh. Had the feeling I'd have to either be a lot better at pandering to the prof or a lot smarter to do any better.