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tenlittlebullets) wrote2004-07-06 06:46 pm
tenlittlebullets) wrote2004-07-06 06:46 pm
Dude.
I have the dorkiest family ever. We just spent a weekend up at this beautiful lake in Pennsylvania, and what do we all do? Trade books around and read all day. Mostly Dan Brown and related stuff--my cousin was reading Angels & Demons for the first time, my grandfather was finishing up Da Vinci Code, and my uncle brought Secrets of the Code and me and my grandfather cheerfully ripped each others' throats out fighting for it all weekend.
Okay, to be fair, we did do stuff besides read. We set off a remarkable number of incendiary devices on Sunday, and I had a contest with abovementioned cousin as to who could make the best design for a fire kite. Plus the lake was remarkably warm so we had a good time swimming, paddling the sailboards around, tipping canoes over, and generally getting wet. Oh, and we debated politics bitterly over dinner. Hee. (One of those discussions where we all held the same viewpoint but somehow managed to sound like we were arguing.)
And... Simon's. Fucking. Rock. Cannot explain how cool it is. Been looking through the course catalog and marking off courses that look interesting... the better ones I can list off from memory.
Music
Chorus
Individual voice/piano/violin instruction
Late Baroque music (Bach and Handel)
Music of the Classical Era (Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, etc)
Music of the Romantic Era (Schubert, Wagner, etc)
Electronic Music
Music Theory
Linguistics and Languages
101 (Introduction to Linguistics)
History/Development of the English Language
Historical Linguistics: Introduction to Gothic
Accelerated beginning Arabic
Intermediate German
Private lessons in Dutch are a distinct possibility
Physics
Introduction to Quantum Physics
Physics of Sound and Music
Analog/Digital Physics
General Relativity (prereq is differential geometry though--I don't think so!)
Computing
Assembly language programming
Linux systems administration
Miscellany
Goedel, Escher, Bach
The Politics of Nazism
Cultural Perspectives: The Arab World
European History (three different classes for various periods of history)
Turkish History and Culture (note that it includes basic spoken Turkish...!)
A required first-year lit course that includes various classics--Plato, Dante, etc
*thud* Yes, I want to take all of these at some point. Plus the required health and phys ed classes, and the prerequisites some of them have (Physics 101, Pol sci 101, calculus...), and whatever else catches my fancy. But I will gladly slog through vector calculus if it means I get to play in their physics lab, which I have seen and which is just too cool for words.
So many classes... so little time in my schedule... *whimper* I wanna fucking learn it ALL.
It occurs to me that I am rather academically suicidal. I suppose I'm just lucky they don't offer classes in ancient Greek or Aramaic, or I'd be trying to cram even more into my schedule.
Oh, and I got my Swedish Phantom recording. *skips*
Okay, to be fair, we did do stuff besides read. We set off a remarkable number of incendiary devices on Sunday, and I had a contest with abovementioned cousin as to who could make the best design for a fire kite. Plus the lake was remarkably warm so we had a good time swimming, paddling the sailboards around, tipping canoes over, and generally getting wet. Oh, and we debated politics bitterly over dinner. Hee. (One of those discussions where we all held the same viewpoint but somehow managed to sound like we were arguing.)
And... Simon's. Fucking. Rock. Cannot explain how cool it is. Been looking through the course catalog and marking off courses that look interesting... the better ones I can list off from memory.
Music
Chorus
Individual voice/piano/violin instruction
Late Baroque music (Bach and Handel)
Music of the Classical Era (Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, etc)
Music of the Romantic Era (Schubert, Wagner, etc)
Electronic Music
Music Theory
Linguistics and Languages
101 (Introduction to Linguistics)
History/Development of the English Language
Historical Linguistics: Introduction to Gothic
Accelerated beginning Arabic
Intermediate German
Private lessons in Dutch are a distinct possibility
Physics
Introduction to Quantum Physics
Physics of Sound and Music
Analog/Digital Physics
General Relativity (prereq is differential geometry though--I don't think so!)
Computing
Assembly language programming
Linux systems administration
Miscellany
Goedel, Escher, Bach
The Politics of Nazism
Cultural Perspectives: The Arab World
European History (three different classes for various periods of history)
Turkish History and Culture (note that it includes basic spoken Turkish...!)
A required first-year lit course that includes various classics--Plato, Dante, etc
*thud* Yes, I want to take all of these at some point. Plus the required health and phys ed classes, and the prerequisites some of them have (Physics 101, Pol sci 101, calculus...), and whatever else catches my fancy. But I will gladly slog through vector calculus if it means I get to play in their physics lab, which I have seen and which is just too cool for words.
So many classes... so little time in my schedule... *whimper* I wanna fucking learn it ALL.
It occurs to me that I am rather academically suicidal. I suppose I'm just lucky they don't offer classes in ancient Greek or Aramaic, or I'd be trying to cram even more into my schedule.
Oh, and I got my Swedish Phantom recording. *skips*