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This year at school, I am painfully undermotivated and seriously bored.
To alleviate boredom, I'm picking research topics that will (I hope) amuse me.
For example: I may end up writing my term paper for Islamic Gunpowder Empires on Khayr al-Din, aka Barbarossa, aka Redbeard the Pirate. It's either that or an investigation of the public health structures of the three major empires (Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal). Public health is interesting, but pirates have that little extra something.
Also, I have proposed one rather dull topic for my Music of the Avant-Garde class, but I might change it to something about Delia Derbyshire, the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and Doctor Who music. Delia Derbyshire is the woman who created the theme for Doctor Who: she didn't compose it, but built it up. The remarkable thing is that she did that all before the RW got a synthesizer.
It's just a coincidence (no, really!) that the most famous and accessible samples of RW output is in Doctor Who episodes, 'cause what I'm interested in here is the intersection of commercial interests and the avant-garde (and how science fiction is a dumping ground for weird new ideas, technologies and techniques). ...I wonder if I ask nicely, they'll issue my degree as a BA in .
And that's how I keep from going insane at school. Pathetic, eh?
To alleviate boredom, I'm picking research topics that will (I hope) amuse me.
For example: I may end up writing my term paper for Islamic Gunpowder Empires on Khayr al-Din, aka Barbarossa, aka Redbeard the Pirate. It's either that or an investigation of the public health structures of the three major empires (Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal). Public health is interesting, but pirates have that little extra something.
Also, I have proposed one rather dull topic for my Music of the Avant-Garde class, but I might change it to something about Delia Derbyshire, the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and Doctor Who music. Delia Derbyshire is the woman who created the theme for Doctor Who: she didn't compose it, but built it up. The remarkable thing is that she did that all before the RW got a synthesizer.
It's just a coincidence (no, really!) that the most famous and accessible samples of RW output is in Doctor Who episodes, 'cause what I'm interested in here is the intersection of commercial interests and the avant-garde (and how science fiction is a dumping ground for weird new ideas, technologies and techniques). ...I wonder if I ask nicely, they'll issue my degree as a BA in .
And that's how I keep from going insane at school. Pathetic, eh?
