Stop, Yield, Go

Well, I have to admit that I have not taken an English class in about 4 years, also since this is my last semester at Clemson I have a huge work load with senior design. So senior design and trying to blog all the time is pretty ruff, and even when i read the passages that are required, sometimes i just don't have time to turn around and blog on them.
STOP: Well I understand why we read some of the stories/poems that we have read, the writing styles are very good, hence why these people are considered some of the greatest writers of our time, but the fact that you chose to make us read material that covers the same subject of child molestation is a little off to me, since i feel there would be other writings by the same authors that show case their talents. lolita was one of my favorite books I've read in a long time. The content was a little gut wrenching at times, but the writing was amazing. Also I think that finding the humor is very difficult at times(when it comes to children material), my g/f is a masters student in physcology and is working with kids that have all sorts of issues, and so many of these kids have been molested or beat as young children and will never be able to live a normal life because of this, so it is kinda what i think about while reading those.
Yield: I feel that the amount of work is fine for this class, I feel as a freshman/sophomore you should be grinding through mass work loads anyways, because that is what being an underclassman is all about. I also am glad that you expect us to participate in class, and all though some days i really want to, other times I'm thinking about other things, like fluids and pipe flow..... But i do enjoy my break in my everyday life to sit down and read. I also feel that sometime we look too deep into meanings and that writers just write it how it is(the fish and beer thing, comes to mind)... but I guess that is because i'm a hard science major and I see things how they go together and work, just the way i was trained.
GO: I really enjoy this class being more interactive, so many classes are just sit there and listen to your professor talk... I think that you can connect to most of these students and help coach/encourage a thought that most would not have expressed if you didn't help... As a senior most of my classes are very interactive and involve more "hands" on work rather then just note taking and this class kinda meets that flow, which i enjoy. I don't know how to stay so in the know... I mean sometimes i'm lost with the verbiage that younger students use just because I'm 23 and some of these kids are only 18. I guess because I don't have social networks like facebook, I don't learn the new slange. it just kinda goes with the way that you can stay connected. I really do enjoy this class, sometimes I just have more work than i can handle but that isn't because of your class. keep your format though i think that is a great set up with the blogging and then the open class discussion. I hope this helps and see ya on monday