I don't ever remember seeing premade avatars at any forum. o.0 I just never explored the control panel enough to find them, I guess.
Now that that's settled, I feel the need to tell you that the blog you wrote ranting about the humanities is one of the most awesome things I've read in a long time. It reflected perfectly the experience I had with English. It's maddening going to something like Math and having to undergo a logical process to determine a fixed solution, only to wind up going to English and BSing an essay or having to guess what the people that created an ORT consider to be "the best answer". I could consistantly pull off at least 90s in every type of assignment in every course, but most of my ORTs would fall short of 80% because of the open-ended nature of the questions. >.< I am a little jealous though, simply because you said you had great teachers for the sciences. A lot of my teachers were boring, and my Math teacher was the most condescending person I've ever met. He talked down on everybody; when I first had classes with him, I felt like I was in elementary school again, because he treated everybody like little children. He even gave "suckers of success" out for the most arbitrary reasons, i.e. answering a simple math problem that typically required next to no thought. My Calculus teacher was cool enough to make of for it to a certain extent, but I still hate a strong distaste for mathematics because of how excrutiating his classes were. And I'll never look at suckers the same way again. =P
Wow, sorry for the paragraph. I guess your rant inspiried a little mini-rant of my own. V.V