Unless you want to read about SFSU occupation, skip.

I was told to post something. I guess since all I do is school, I'll write about that.
I'm not so interested in my current classes for one reason (or a thousand) or another. My classes are: Foundations and History of Archaeology, Human Fossils Practicum, Human Variation, and History and Modern Problems of The Middle East and North Africa. They are all Anthropology classes, so I at least have some interest in that I know what I learn will benefit my major and possibly my career one day, but it just seems that most of the curriculum is overwhelming for no good reason. Whatever. I always complain in this thing. Must be why I don't write in it.

So anyway, okay, school is fine. I will be graduating this December which is exciting but also is perpetually a reason for me to be physically ill upon thinking about my future. I'm just a kid! I can't get a real job! Yikes!
My house is a mess. I should clean it. Or maybe I should go get cookies and watch a Netflix movie.
I like that idea a lot better.
Sometimes I really wonder about my generation. Today was March Forth--the big protest and activism-heavy rally held at Civic Center (um, 4 blocks from my house)--a (theoretically) great time to voice your opinions and gather participation and force to fight the extremely harsh budget cuts to the California education system. All well and good. I get it. It IS an awful reality to face, our generation getting a short, sharp end of a stick that was once in bloom and thriving. It IS practically blasphemous to slash $600 million from public education when those getting that proposed "education" (and I use quotations with no light hand--I do believe my education is desperately lacking in comparison to other universities) are going to have to fill the jobs that run this country one day.
But on the other hand...them's the times. No one I observed today seemed to understand that in even the most minute of levels. People my age partying the night prior to the big protest today, getting drunk and throwing M80's into the dorm rooms of kids not participating in the mindless self indulgence. Kids went about their business on campus, still talking about how much they hate reading and love shoe shopping. The community of students the actual protesters are trying to reach are mindless. And 90% of the protesters are spoiled little kids that like getting the rush of "making a difference" when they barely make a dent. They use brute force and radical gestures like and then point fingers at the police for "militarilization" and police brutality.

During the December 9th occupation of the business building (a week before finals), students picketed around the building they claimed the most corrupt of all the colleges of SFSU. They claimed Business as a major was uneccessary and colleges like Ethnic Studies needed to be bolstered and given sizable shares of funding, more than Math and Science colleges combined. No one was allowed inside the building unless they wanted a peer to peer fist fight. The occupationists dressed like Zapatistas and barricaded and booby trapped a university building while participating in guerilla tactics against the SWAT teams that came in, and expected the police to not take action against the symbolism and half-hearted actions inspired by their dress. You dress like a an insurgent, you get treated like one. Didn't you learn that in middle school?

Kids on the bus going to the rally at Civic Center this afternoon were full of college-pride and recreational drugs. Everyone on that bus was discussing how "pumped" they were to go see the "action" and then party at a bar somewhere else. Groups were doing acid and ecstasy and shoving individual cans of beer into their backpacks to avoid suspicion on the pat downs. It was absolutely ridiculous. I can't even take my own generation seriously, how can the current ones in charge?


This was the December 9th occupation. Mind you, a week before finals. I was in the first classroom to the left of the video. Know what's going on? Yeah neither did we. No effective word got out except that some kids were causing trouble. They weren't that far off. The occupiers caught demanded to not be arrested. If you fight for your rights, you should have the courage of your actions. The 1968 activists didn't demand immunity--they acted and changed our nation.


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