Housing, Hard Disk Drives and Bad Ukrainian Teachers

[niphredil]

My roommate packet/housing info is supposed to come sometime today. Or tomorrow. Or the day after. The California residents all seem to have gotten theirs. Let's just hope the people at the post office feel like sorting the mail today. And it's raining. Woo

Comments

[mkpoet]

If you do take another language I recommend Latin. I took it for two years in high school, and while I didn't get as much out of it as someone who enjoys languages might (I talk for a living and I can't learn another language to save my life, go fig) but it did help me understand a bunch of stuff that I didn't get while taking French. Just something to keep in mind.

[mkpoet]

oh and one more thing. I don't know if it'll work where you're going the way it did in Madison, but if there's a class you want that will fit in your schedule but it's full, go to the first of day of class and the teacher might ask those who aren't registered for the class to write their names down and then as other people drop the class you could possibly get a spot. I don't know for sure so ask your RA or another upper classman when you get the chance to see if it works that way.

[niphredil]

Will do. I think it works that way.
And yes, Latin does look rather appealing :-)

[sar178bear]

Taking a language class will in no way hinder your social life. I've been takingg French and I'm starting with Spanish on top of that. The beginning language classes have a lot of busy work, but the work load isn't any larger than that or any other class.

And linguistics is an awesome field!

Ps.: If your roommate is a stoner, don't worry about it. Us Pitzeroids/Pitzerians/whatever we're called are mostly very considerate of other people's needs and wants. After all, you guys are sharing the place and I'm sure your roomie won't stink up the place if you're not chill with it.