So here I am in grad school... and this week, I've never felt more like I didn't belong. But as I sit here in class discussing, I find out that I'm not the only one. Let me explain:

For my Soviet history course this week we were assigned From Newspeak to Cyberspeak: A History of Soviet Cybernetics by Slava Gerovitch. Let the record show that I read all 303 pages of this book... and was lost by page 40. One may ask, why would a Russian history professor assign a book about Soviet science, involving little to no history. Don't be fooled by the title, if you aren't a trained scientist, you have no hope of understanding this book. Hell, you may even have problems if you are a scientist, it's that confusing. As I sit here in class, not a one of us has a single decent thing to say about this monstrosity. I had to look up too many words in this thing to count them all, and even then, I had no idea what some of the words in the definitions meant! Sorry if this doesn't make any sense, I'm just wicked frustrated...

Update: Class tonight was a bullshit waste of my time. The professor called us all out for not understanding the reading like it was our fault... I hate grad school. If you're thinking about it, just don't. It's the world's most expensive book club.