Back to School part 2
So, I finally have some sort of a break after finishing what is really my first day of classes that stretched over two calendar days. Now I have taken all of my classes at least once, and have sort of an idea of what to expect. Here's a rundown:MWF
10:00 A.M.- Statistics. AAAAAGHH!!!! WHAT KIND OF SICK PERSON PUTS TOGETHER THIS CLASS!?! AAAGH!! The teacher is boring, the book is easy and boring, and my classmates are not the sharpest tacks in the box. Not a pretty sight to wake up to, even with a fresh cappucino.
11:oo A.M. Hon. English. I don't know quite what to think. The teacher seems good, the material is excellent (except for Candide, again...but we're also doing Dostoevski again so it's not all bad) and my classmates are obviously well informed. But it's an English class when I'm supposed to be done with English...
gogo ju ni ji desu. Japanese. Well, I hope it will be better this time around since I seem to be the only one who practiced over the break. Still, it's Japanese, so I expect a lot of practicing with not a lot of results.
1:10 P.M. New Testament: Synoptic Gospels. This one should be excellent. I know the stuff, my classmates know the stuff (it's another honors class) and it's interesting material. The textbook is boring, but the teacher is very good, and I'm interested in the directions he's going to take.
2:10 P.M. Calculus II. This is going to be an interesting class because I know the material (We're learning how to integrate!) but it's been a year and a half since I've taken any math. The hardest part is going to be catching up to the point where the class is at, but I anticipate it getting easier after that.
T/Th
9:30 A.M. History 101. Along with Japanese lab on Thursday and another Calculus class on Tuesday, the only other class I have these days is History 101. The good news is that it is taught by a Jesuit, so you know the teaching is going to be top notch. He's also quite funny. The down side is that I'm taking History 101. It's going to be a struggle between the quality of the lectures and the fact that I learned all of this stuff in elementary school. I anticipate major boredom.
Well, now you know kind of where I'm at. I'm off to go study...something.
posted by Emmett @ 14:31
5 Comments:
Ouch. That's quite the load there, even for you. Good luck with it. What's 'syntopic?', anyway? Big word I don't know...
Yesh, good luck with all that. Especially with retaining sanity in statistics. *goes temporarily catatonic for flashbacks* *screams* ...ahem Out of curiosity, are you learning kanji in Japanese yet? We've just started. We just started direct-style verbals, as well... your text may not call them that, it seems like our text came up with its own little system.. but stuff like taberu, nomeru, iku, etc. would be would I'm talking about.
For Maren: synoptic=first three Gospels in the NT (Matthew, Mark, Luke)
AH! Very good, very good.
We started learning kanji last semester, but only a very little. Stuff like Nihon, Nihongo, stuff like that. Right now we're doing adjectives.. and I have no idea what direct style verbals are, so hopefully we haven't covered them.
Um...good luck with that?
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