Four down, two to go!
Aside from the massive migraine attempting to set in, today's been a rather good day, especially for the first day of classes.
Here's a rundown of my schedule:
9:30 MWF - Race Relations
12:30 MWF - Elementary Spanish 1
13:30 MWF - World History 1600 to Present
15:30 MWF - Introductory Physics Lecture
19:30 M - Introductory Physics Lab
11:30 TR - Promethian Myth in the Modern Arts
16:00 T - London Theatre Tour Lecture Component
Race Relations is probably going to be horribly frustrating for me for a couple of reasons. The class is laid out so as not to overlap with the other Sociology courses, so it focuses mainly on one specific facet of racism. I'm left to wonder if the professor is going to include reverse racism. I'm also going to have many issues involving the Race Journal component of the class. I don't have a TV or a radio, so I can't watch/listen to those for relevant news stories, and I'm not exactly sure what news sites he counts as credible sources. Luckily, he's promised to go into more detail about sources and format later, and we only need three stories related to race issues for the entirety of the semester. Aside from my own personal hang-ups about the news, the professor's a pretty cool guy. He was born in India and got his Master's there, but he's been living and teaching in the US for the past 10 years or so. I'm hoping the class won't be as horribly boring as I'd thought.
Spanish? Is going to be FUN. My professor's from Colombia, and she's taught us a few regional variations on greetings and the like. We're apparently taking a placement exam in-class sometime this week, and I'm a bit nervous about that. I still know quite a bit of the Spanish I learned in middle and high schools, but I'm honestly hoping I don't test out of this class. I need that A. I refuse to take a C and move up.
My only gripe here is that she's chosen to use a book completely different from any of the other Spanish instructors, and the book isn't even published yet. It won't be available for a few weeks. She's teaching from a pre-publication copy and her own know-how. I'd like to know how much money I have to spend on this course, thanks.
World History was a pleasant surprise. The professor was fiddling around with his eCampus site thingy, and I noticed that his last name was Upward. How awesome is that? He looked like the standard, slightly-balding professor type: nothing to write home about. Then.
Then he opened his mouth.
It was all I could do not to melt. The man has an amazing voice. He's almost got the same accent as David Bowie. It's mesmerizing. I could listen to him for hours. Mrowr.
The class itself is going to be pretty standard fare. We'll be hitting the highlights. Went through the syllabus, and when we got near the end, he asked a question.
"And then we have 1968. Why 1968? Well, what happened in 1968?"
Everyone throws out all these things--Vietnam, riots, civil rights--and when people run out of ideas, he just states very quietly:
"It's also the year the Beatles released the White Album. Fairly monumental."
Then he just smiled and went on about the business of explaining the exams. Gotta love a dry sense of humor.
Physics saddled me with another adorable professor. He reminds me of all three of the charter Ghostbusters rolled into one, appearance-wise, and his personality is very much like Ray and Egon. He seems to know his stuff, so maybe I'll actually be able to get though the class without a mid-semester "dear god I am going to fail this course so hard" panic attack. He's certainly reassuring enough. The class will have four midterm exams, so that's a bit different. Hopefully the more frequent exams will mean that I won't have time to forget the early stuff.
Labs don't meet the first week, and mine won't meet next week either due to the long weekend. I lucked out, I guess.
Hopefully this will continue to be easy as pie.
I'm off to play Shin Megami Tensei IMAGINE Online again. Wish me luck in remembering what the hell I'm doing.
Here's a rundown of my schedule:
9:30 MWF - Race Relations
12:30 MWF - Elementary Spanish 1
13:30 MWF - World History 1600 to Present
15:30 MWF - Introductory Physics Lecture
19:30 M - Introductory Physics Lab
11:30 TR - Promethian Myth in the Modern Arts
16:00 T - London Theatre Tour Lecture Component
Race Relations is probably going to be horribly frustrating for me for a couple of reasons. The class is laid out so as not to overlap with the other Sociology courses, so it focuses mainly on one specific facet of racism. I'm left to wonder if the professor is going to include reverse racism. I'm also going to have many issues involving the Race Journal component of the class. I don't have a TV or a radio, so I can't watch/listen to those for relevant news stories, and I'm not exactly sure what news sites he counts as credible sources. Luckily, he's promised to go into more detail about sources and format later, and we only need three stories related to race issues for the entirety of the semester. Aside from my own personal hang-ups about the news, the professor's a pretty cool guy. He was born in India and got his Master's there, but he's been living and teaching in the US for the past 10 years or so. I'm hoping the class won't be as horribly boring as I'd thought.
Spanish? Is going to be FUN. My professor's from Colombia, and she's taught us a few regional variations on greetings and the like. We're apparently taking a placement exam in-class sometime this week, and I'm a bit nervous about that. I still know quite a bit of the Spanish I learned in middle and high schools, but I'm honestly hoping I don't test out of this class. I need that A. I refuse to take a C and move up.
My only gripe here is that she's chosen to use a book completely different from any of the other Spanish instructors, and the book isn't even published yet. It won't be available for a few weeks. She's teaching from a pre-publication copy and her own know-how. I'd like to know how much money I have to spend on this course, thanks.
World History was a pleasant surprise. The professor was fiddling around with his eCampus site thingy, and I noticed that his last name was Upward. How awesome is that? He looked like the standard, slightly-balding professor type: nothing to write home about. Then.
Then he opened his mouth.
It was all I could do not to melt. The man has an amazing voice. He's almost got the same accent as David Bowie. It's mesmerizing. I could listen to him for hours. Mrowr.
The class itself is going to be pretty standard fare. We'll be hitting the highlights. Went through the syllabus, and when we got near the end, he asked a question.
"And then we have 1968. Why 1968? Well, what happened in 1968?"
Everyone throws out all these things--Vietnam, riots, civil rights--and when people run out of ideas, he just states very quietly:
"It's also the year the Beatles released the White Album. Fairly monumental."
Then he just smiled and went on about the business of explaining the exams. Gotta love a dry sense of humor.
Physics saddled me with another adorable professor. He reminds me of all three of the charter Ghostbusters rolled into one, appearance-wise, and his personality is very much like Ray and Egon. He seems to know his stuff, so maybe I'll actually be able to get though the class without a mid-semester "dear god I am going to fail this course so hard" panic attack. He's certainly reassuring enough. The class will have four midterm exams, so that's a bit different. Hopefully the more frequent exams will mean that I won't have time to forget the early stuff.
Labs don't meet the first week, and mine won't meet next week either due to the long weekend. I lucked out, I guess.
Hopefully this will continue to be easy as pie.
I'm off to play Shin Megami Tensei IMAGINE Online again. Wish me luck in remembering what the hell I'm doing.