More Frustration and More Fruition

Well, it just came to my attention that I've already lost my class schedule for this next year. I happened to catch the student adviser a few days ago and got to go over my open blocks for this next year and I must say, ended up with at least a few gems. Lots of basic stuff like Science of Creative Intelligence (a full month devoted to jacking off about Transcendental Meditation. The class is a month of watching Maharishi giving speeches in the 70's and then restating it in 2-3 paragraphs while touting TM and bashing on other meditation techniques), Maharishi Vedic Science (so far as I can tell the same as Science of Creative Intelligence), Composition (I have nothing to add here, but feel like I should add parentheses again), Bee-Keeping Certification (fucking sweet), Biointensive Agriculture (how much food can you grow in your own 10x10 raised garden), Something about Green Architecture, and other necessity classes.
I'm mostly just pumped about the bee-keeping and biointensive agriculture but wanted to bitch about SCI and MVS. My homework tonight was 2-3 paragraphs comparing the results of a paper called "Differential Effects of Relaxation Techniques on Trait Anxiety," which sounds like a highly intellectual piece of work and probably is. Unfortunately, the only section reprinted for us was a paragraph composed almost entirely of trivial details about the test environment and one sentence stating "Transcendental Meditation had significantly larger effect size, and meditation that involved concentration had significantly smalled effect." My homework was to write 2-3 paragraphs about that single sentence. I had to jack-off Transcendental Meditation once again.
The part that really got my brain reeling about what is being passed off as sound scientific education is the fact that at the bottom of the single xeroxed page we were given from this article is a cut off sentence starting with "While positive results often have been reported, it has not been established conclusively whether any of these procedures are more effective than others or whether,-". Comma, nothing. Or whether WHAT!? Or Whether Kenneth R. Eppley and Allan I. Abrams were conducting this test on a grant from someone with vested interests in TM? Or whether some patients were secretly dosing themselves before the tests? Or fucking what!?

I started on another rant a second ago but kind of lost steam...it's really really weird being tired at midnight. You get the point.

I'm thinking about being Tony "Raja Ram" Nader for Halloween.