I have never had a class like this before. This is a class on political advocacy that I need for my poli-sci major, and it is making me really uncomfortable. The whole idea is that writing essays and taking tests in a class on political advocacy is useless, and that it needs to be done, not just learned. So our professor told us very clearly, if you stay in this class, I expect you to actually change something. Find something you are passionate about, something that makes you angry, and work to change it. He says we should anger people, because that is a necessary part of advocacy. We had to write down all consequences we could face, such as arrest, expulsion, etc. I have never done ANY of these things, and don't know if I can stay in this class. He says that if we don't feel comfortable with this, we may drop the class, and if this is the case, urges us to drop it.

This leads me to my next dilemma. I am passionate about NOTHING. I can't think of ANYTHING I would be willing to fight for. This is starting to REALLY upset me. I know it sounds horrible, but the more I think about it, the more I realize how little I care about issues. I have been so priveleged through out my life, that I have never really experienced any struggles. I just don't know what to do. I could say increased tuition, gay rights, police brutality, racism, equality, are all things I would want to see changed, but are they really things I would actually take a step further and FIGHT for? I really don't think so to be honest. Yes I care about things like my family, but I really can't think of any political issues that make me actually angry enough to fight for. This is upsetting because I really do want to take this class and feel it would be an enormously rewarding experience it in the end, but feel I might have to drop it out of simple reason that I don't care about anything. How to tell this to my professor...