>25 minutes late to meeting with supervisor, he is sitting in his office waiting with the door open
>ask him about exam / essay retakes, if I will be able to graduate for 5 minutes (I was busy working, writing and doing political stuff rather than doing my exams)
>after that is done don't know what to say so I ask him if about Origins of the Family, Private Property and the State
>He thinks I am asking him a history question, I say no I am refering to Engels, and I wrote an essay about this in my first year. Start talking about why it matters and how it links to the research I have been doing on the Etruscans and Early Romans.
>After that jump to complaining about post-structuralism in history and archaeology for literally 20 minutes.
>Finish by recommending him an obscure trot history book about the late Roman Empire and its collapse.
>I have wasted like 40 minutes of his time talking at him about history he doesn't care about and doesn't specialize in, whilst barely talking about what I actually came to ask him about other than the basic mechanisms
Am I autistic?
>>676849Sorry I turned an economic class into a moral category, this was a failiure and I have whipped myself 5 times in lieu of having a struggle session.
However many professors are bourgeois or petit-bourgeois since they get their money from outside their job.
>>676850You too!