Day 5 was fairly boring it’s nothing of note, this day was my Europe classes and we haven’t reached anything super interesting. For early Europe we talked a lot about royal stuff and it was incredibly confusing since every king has the same name and it’s all so weird. There is also a lot of reading assigned for that class which makes it a bit annoying but the textbook is probably easier to follow than the lectures, whatever.

Since there’s so many hours of free time before my modern Europe class I hand out in the library to read assignments for my historiography class. The library has two sections, the quiet area and the normal area, the quiet area is obviously for SILENCE. You go there to study and read or whatever quietly, while the normal area is whee you can talk and do other things. So tell me why I settle in the quiet area and three guys sit across from me YAPPING! Oh my god what a nuisance! Why are you all over on this side of the library being annoying while everyone is not talking, when you could be in the loud part not bothering anyone? This really sucked and came across as inconsiderate but maybe they just lack social awareness? Then again, they did say themselves that this was the quiet area when helping one of their buds navigate around. I was not thrilled at all. I don’t like wearing both earbuds at thee same time, I like to have only one so I can hear what’s around me, especially out in public, but I needed both of them to try and tune out these guys. The library does have closed off “study rooms” that you can book ahead of time, I might utilize this for next time since I hate not getting my favourite spot and be around loud mouths.

I probably sound like a whiny asshole so I’ll stop and move on to my modern Europe class, which thankfully doesn’t require textbook readings, although I will have to read The Communist Manifest (which I will be writing my paper on), All Quiet on the Western Front, and Survival in Auschwitz. The amount of books I had to BUY this semester infuriates me… I needed specific editions and I was only able to get ONE book out of the list for free. What a bummer. Anyway, my modern Europe class was fine but nothing to write here about. We learned about important Philosophes during the enlightenment and whose work inspired the inferential stages of the French Revolution: Diderot, Voltaire, and Rousseau. All I’ll really say is that it was nice of Voltaire to help the Calas family clear Jean’s name, and Rousseau was kind of a paranoid weirdo (but so am I, for different reasons). Nothing much else happened so I’ll end the post here. Although when I looked back at my syllabus for the Russian Revolution week and apparently it’s online? So maybe there wont be a physical lecture… oh well.

Note: sorry this post was late, I got bogged down by exhaustion and stuff at home.