Comments | isogon: yay school

isogon

yay school

Jan 05, 2009 21:20

It's that time of the year when you heigh yourself off to the school bookstore to scour the aisles, driven by one burning purpose: you must read the introduction to the textbook before you get to class so that when the professor goes around the room asking everyone why they're taking the class you are not forced to turn to the person next to you ( Read more... )

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jaquii January 6 2009, 04:48:29 UTC

Rachel!!! I got your cookies and jewelry box! The cookies were delicious and the box is really adorable!!! <3 I miss you! Did you get my text? Have you started school yet? Want to meet up for coffee sometime? QUESTIONSOMGWTF?!?!

isogon January 6 2009, 18:09:08 UTC

I'm glad you liked them! I did get your text! I did start school! I'd love to meet for coffee! I'm in Lincoln Park for class on Fridays (Japanese from 12-1), but I could also make my way over there on a weekend or a Tuesday afternoon. I haven't gotten to see much of the neighborhood up there yet and I'd really like to see more. Is any particular time good for you?

jaquii January 6 2009, 18:36:28 UTC

I'm totally free this week, as classes don't start for me until next week. Next Tuesday and Friday I'll probably be busy though. What works out best for you? :3 If we did something on a Sunday, Tanya might be able to join us~

isogon January 6 2009, 18:48:19 UTC

How about Sunday, then? Sometime in the afternoon?

(Woah, I just realized my phone is so low on batteries that I can't even turn it on.)

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jaquii January 6 2009, 04:48:57 UTC

Tanya ate cookies as well and she says the same about her box! <3

isogon January 6 2009, 18:09:27 UTC

Yay! ^_^

biscuitchan January 6 2009, 05:09:08 UTC

hey haven't talked to you in a while.
I quit school b/c I realized early childhood education isn't for me. and now I have a job at the JEWEL on main street in wheaton . today was my first day ^_^

are you still at COD? or did you transfer? I can't remember.

your classes sound fun...well except the math one....math and me don't mix....

isogon January 6 2009, 18:24:01 UTC

Wow, congratulations! I'm trying to catch up with everyone's journals, so I just read about your paycheck. That's awesome! I always do my grocery shopping at a Jewel, even here in the city.

I finally managed to get my Associates in the spring and I transferred to DePaul in the fall so I'm living in a dorm in Chicago now. My first quarter was a little hectic but it looks like this one is going to be a lot of fun.

I have a complicated relationship with math. I love trigonometry but algebra is sort of the bane of my existence. I managed to pass a year of calculus at COD but there were many tears and I was never really sure what I was doing.

I thought maybe I should be intimidated by discrete math because when I got to class it was full of math majors, but a lot of them don't seem to understand it very well, which gives me hope. If it's difficult for people who think like them, maybe it will be okay for people who think like me. So far it seems to be more about logic, which is good.

stephen_poon January 6 2009, 06:09:09 UTC

Oh hey, you're alive.

I remember the days of C++. I was not terribly talented at it. My teacher's name was Hoar.

isogon January 6 2009, 18:46:35 UTC

Forcibly evicted from partial hermitage. Every time I get to the city the shock of finding myself in the middle of so many people and so much noise makes me very homesick for three in the morning in the suburbs where even the windows of passing cars look dark and you might as well be the only person in the world.

I've been searching my memory, trying to figure out whether my C++ teacher is the first male African-American teacher I've ever had. Not that it's important, but it seems odd to me that that would be the case.

Hehe. Hoar. College professor, I hope? High school with that name could be very tiresome.

mnemosyne15 January 6 2009, 18:53:04 UTC

Come to think of it, I don't think I've ever had a male African-American teacher. The only female African-American teacher I've had was Miss Karen, our ballet teacher.

stephen_poon January 6 2009, 19:36:02 UTC

It was in high school. Fortunately, all of us got the joke out of our system after the first day or so.

As for his experiences with the rest of the school, I can't say.

red_your_mind January 7 2009, 16:08:18 UTC

I recall fondly that time we spent an evening poring over my calculus book. I think it was the day of Air Band, my junior year.

I find I actually miss the challenge of doing math problems sometimes. But without exams hanging over my head, it's hard to justify the effort.

isogon January 9 2009, 08:32:10 UTC

Hey, I had a day off of classes today so I played through Nanobots. Amazing job! I had a great time with the puzzles and the picture search at the end was a very nice touch.

My C++ class has voted that our class project will be to program an adventure game. Life is awesome.