studying for learning and conditioning makes me increasingly annoyed at my major. all these lengthy and trying to be intellectual papers talking in circles on pretty much the same point. when i think about it i find it so ridiculous how so much research and time and education can be wasted upon the subject of how a pigeon learns to peck on a light. (other ridiculous experiments include, how a worm learns to go toward a smell it likes, or how a snail stops responding to pokes). i mean WTF seriously. why does one need to build a highly complicated and mathematical model for simple observations? why do we need to learn how learning takes place in that much detail??! it's like i lose the point in all the jargon really.

all these great debates about whether learning is associative or computational. all this "excitement" (clearly not mine but those geeky professors with...ahemnolife) over which it is. designing more and more ridiculous experiments on more and more tortured animals for what? when in the end, we realise it is computational learning (for example) what are we going to do? throw a great computationing party?!!? and of course it'll never be the end. because psychology the field needs to continue growing, so someone will come along and propose an even more complicated model that imrpoves upon the minor flaws of the previous model and great we can debate and experiment some more. fun fun!

times like this, i really feel like i can't find it in me to continue wasting my life doing this crap called psychology. because i really don't know how to apply all this that i am being made to learn. i'd really much rather start working and learning practical things (and making money) but damn a miserable bachelors in arts and social science does stink.