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I'm totally torn on what classes I want to take next term. Like, there are lots of potentially interesting classes, and I'm not sure what is most interesting anymore.
Um. There's writing systems, which I am totally taking even though it's at the same time as a Japanese-lit-in-translation class that I might otherwise have thought about 'cause someday I'll need to take one of those lit-in-translation courses, I think. And there's Chinese, which is like duh, I have to take it (though maybe it would be worth it to see if I could either just audit ('cause really, Chinese 103 does nothing for me in terms of credits or requirements) or overload and scrunch it (one might think that if I were to overload, I should scrunch a harder class, but I think I could take Chinese, not do a lot of the work, get a bad grade, and still learn a reasonable amount, which would not be the case in a different sort of class)). Ummmm Bilik-sensei is teaching something in SOAN about language, which might be interesting 'cause he's neat and the class sounds interesting, except that it's at 8:15 in the morning. Eww. I want to take intro CS someday, and if I don't do it soon, I prob'ly won't get the chance. There's another upper-level Japanese class, but I'm enough not-fond of the dynamic in the class this term that I'm sure I want to take it. Also, it's at the same time as syntaxofanunfamiliarlanguage, which I started the term pretty sure I wanted to take next term. I'm less sure now, though - I dunno; I'm just so generally unsatisfied with syntax. Like, there are so many times when we gloss over things that we can't explain, and I'm pretty sure that many of them, at least, are things that can be explained by other people, and we just haven't gotten that far yet, but it's so... yeah, unsatisfying. And I don't like the blitheness with which it is glossed over and the number of things that we haven't even touched on thinking about explaining, and the general inadequacy of our rules. And even if we explained it well... I don't know. I don't feel like asdlkfjiweopruckfn I think basically it's just that I am getting really frustrated this term/year/lately/something with academic studentness; I am at an institute of learning and I want to learn some nonacademic things. Though there are days when syntax is at least a little bit delightful.
I think mainly I'm trying to decide whether or not to take syntax, actually.
Um. There's writing systems, which I am totally taking even though it's at the same time as a Japanese-lit-in-translation class that I might otherwise have thought about 'cause someday I'll need to take one of those lit-in-translation courses, I think. And there's Chinese, which is like duh, I have to take it (though maybe it would be worth it to see if I could either just audit ('cause really, Chinese 103 does nothing for me in terms of credits or requirements) or overload and scrunch it (one might think that if I were to overload, I should scrunch a harder class, but I think I could take Chinese, not do a lot of the work, get a bad grade, and still learn a reasonable amount, which would not be the case in a different sort of class)). Ummmm Bilik-sensei is teaching something in SOAN about language, which might be interesting 'cause he's neat and the class sounds interesting, except that it's at 8:15 in the morning. Eww. I want to take intro CS someday, and if I don't do it soon, I prob'ly won't get the chance. There's another upper-level Japanese class, but I'm enough not-fond of the dynamic in the class this term that I'm sure I want to take it. Also, it's at the same time as syntaxofanunfamiliarlanguage, which I started the term pretty sure I wanted to take next term. I'm less sure now, though - I dunno; I'm just so generally unsatisfied with syntax. Like, there are so many times when we gloss over things that we can't explain, and I'm pretty sure that many of them, at least, are things that can be explained by other people, and we just haven't gotten that far yet, but it's so... yeah, unsatisfying. And I don't like the blitheness with which it is glossed over and the number of things that we haven't even touched on thinking about explaining, and the general inadequacy of our rules. And even if we explained it well... I don't know. I don't feel like asdlkfjiweopruckfn I think basically it's just that I am getting really frustrated this term/year/lately/something with academic studentness; I am at an institute of learning and I want to learn some nonacademic things. Though there are days when syntax is at least a little bit delightful.
I think mainly I'm trying to decide whether or not to take syntax, actually.