10 Years After

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The worst feeling for me is being late for class. I hated it 10 years ago when I was first in college and I hate it now. The difference is that 10 years ago I would simply not enter the class if I was late and this morning I tromped to the front of class to take my seat. I would have take one in the back, but they were all taken.
We finished discussing STC's Rime of the Ancient Mariner, which we started last class, and started Christabel. After all was said and done about Rime of the Ancient Mariner one kid in the class raises his hand and asked if all the problems started when the bird was killed. What? How could he not have grasped that idea despite it being clear in the text and the professor stating and restating it multiple times. Heck, he even discussed several thematic aspects of the poem, all of which centered around the killing of the bird. Very strange.

( \Al"ba*tross\, n. [Corrupt. fr. Pg. alcatraz cormorant, albatross, or Sp. alcatraz a pelican: cf. Pg. alcatruz, Sp. arcaduz, a bucket, fr. Ar. al-q[=a]dus the bucket, fr. Gr. ka`dos, a water vessel. So an Arabic term for pelican is water-carrier, as a bird carrying water in its pouch.] (Zo["o]l.) A web-footed bird, of the genus Diomedea, of which there are several species. They are the largest of sea birds, capable of long-continued flight, and are often seen at great distances from the land. They are found chiefly in the southern hemisphere.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary... )

See also my other blog's post about Pelicans and Albatross.