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tenlittlebullets) wrote2009-01-26 10:06 pm
tenlittlebullets) wrote2009-01-26 10:06 pm
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First day of classes roundup
My schedule's a little wonky and its eventual configuration will depend on how anal the French department is, but so far...
Discrete math: Is what it is. The first class was too introductory for me to get a sense of it, but the professor seems okay.
Latin: We had a quiz on the first day, okay? And the prof opened straight to chapter 23 and started talking about participles as though he expected us to have read it already. I liked Crazy Drill Sergeant Latin Lady better.
Medieval and Renaissance France: It seems interesting enough but... I hope I'll be able to drop it, because it looks like a fuckton of work on a subject I'm not terribly passionate about. I mean, if I keep it I'll probably have most of a medieval studies minor purely by accident, but my schedule is way overloaded and he wants us writing two pages of homework a week minimum.
The Year 1830: Fuck yes! I was not honestly sure whether my French was high-level enough to take this, but it totally is, and I was totally responsible for about 2/3 of the class discussion just by squeeing about Delacroix. It looks like it will be a lot of work, especially oral presentations, but it also looks like it will be totally worth it and the work will be on really shiny stuff like Hernani and Balzac and caricatures and first-person accounts of July 1830. (And Stendhal. Ew.) And the teacher keeps dropping random trivia like how long it took to travel from Paris to Lyon at the time. (Four days by diligence, or forty-eight hours by mail coach driving night and day.) This is going to kick my ass and be utterly awesome.
Tomorrow is Foundations of Computer Science, aka the class with discrete math as a prerequisite. That will be... interesting.
Discrete math: Is what it is. The first class was too introductory for me to get a sense of it, but the professor seems okay.
Latin: We had a quiz on the first day, okay? And the prof opened straight to chapter 23 and started talking about participles as though he expected us to have read it already. I liked Crazy Drill Sergeant Latin Lady better.
Medieval and Renaissance France: It seems interesting enough but... I hope I'll be able to drop it, because it looks like a fuckton of work on a subject I'm not terribly passionate about. I mean, if I keep it I'll probably have most of a medieval studies minor purely by accident, but my schedule is way overloaded and he wants us writing two pages of homework a week minimum.
The Year 1830: Fuck yes! I was not honestly sure whether my French was high-level enough to take this, but it totally is, and I was totally responsible for about 2/3 of the class discussion just by squeeing about Delacroix. It looks like it will be a lot of work, especially oral presentations, but it also looks like it will be totally worth it and the work will be on really shiny stuff like Hernani and Balzac and caricatures and first-person accounts of July 1830. (And Stendhal. Ew.) And the teacher keeps dropping random trivia like how long it took to travel from Paris to Lyon at the time. (Four days by diligence, or forty-eight hours by mail coach driving night and day.) This is going to kick my ass and be utterly awesome.
Tomorrow is Foundations of Computer Science, aka the class with discrete math as a prerequisite. That will be... interesting.