News break for some real-life advice here.
(That’s me this semester.)
If you are currently attending or planning to attend Rowan University in Glassboro, New Jersey, and are a Radio-TV-Film major or thinking of taking some classes from said department to fill out your credits, I will advise you of this: never take Film History and Appreciation I (with David Bianculli), TV History and Appreciation I, and The Television Industry, all in the same semester. At least not in the fall. You’ll need, at least, the summer to recover, else you’ll spend your spring semester completely and utterly depressed and uninspired.
I am currently experiencing severe Professor Mike Donovan withdrawal, firstly. He teaches The Television Industry and is one-thirds of the pseudo-comedy team that teaches TV History and Appreciation I. The former class is all discussion and notes, and it’s only taught in the wee hours, but dude is switched on from dawn until dusk. As for the latter class, Donovan, the aforementioned Bianculli, and Dr. George Back act as a more-coherent Three Stooges as they bring you through the beginnings of television. Of course I learned loads in both classes (4.0 last semester, bitches!), but I laughed much more than that.
While I’m taking two film classes, a television class, and a drawing class this semester, I just feel so downtrodden. There’s a spark of awesome during Bianculli’s TV History and Appreciation II, but the rest just leave me in doldrums. It’s like no semester – or time in my life ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! – will be as exciting as those thirteen-hour Tuesdays from September into December that had me in stitches as I watched three middle-aged, graying or already-grayed men, poke fun at themselves, their students, and each other, for hours on end, over a period of three separate classes. I’m so sad, I don’t even give a shit that that last sentence was the run-oningest run-on sentence in the history of language.