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ltgmarsBack at school, by the way. Four days in and I'm simultaneously excited for my final(!) semester of college (whaaaaat) and scared for my life.
Fourth-Year Japanese: I am 33.3% of the class this semester. It's going to be an adorably intimate class (holler). Also, we're reading Murakami Haruki. In Japanese. :|
Second-Year Chinese: The usual madness. I love it to bits but I failed at "keeping Chinese warm", so I have some catching up to do. Liz ended up not going abroad, which is at once heartbreaking and thrilling, because I can't help but feel sad for her when she was so ready and excited for it, but at the same time, I am swimming in warm, fuzzy thoughts about how Liz has not left me.
American Politics: Difference and Discrimination: My first ever PoliSci course! We're going to be looking at the US political system and specifically how it relates to marginalized groups -- racial minorities, the poor, homosexuals, etc. It seems interesting so far. I just wish we had a zealous and vocal conservative in the class to shake things up. I keep finding myself agreeing with all of the progressive and socially liberal things people say in class, and I just want someone to really argue with (and complain about outside of class) for a change, instead of having people mumble through hypothesized counterarguments that they don't really believe in.
Lesbian Immortal: It is what it is, yo. English class at Bryn Mawr with someone who is apparently a phenomenal professor. (She's Bri'ish and awesome.) I like her already, and I can easily see how effective she is as a professor -- she framed the course really well within the history of queer studies and articulated the trajectory of the question we're asking within the class (as well as how we're going to try to work out the answer) really well. I am so. excited. for this course, but it'll be a good deal of reading (which I'm slow at) and a kind of academic work (analysis of literature and poetry) that I'm not great at. But! I hope to learn a lot. m(_ _)m
And then, of course, there's the ever-lovely Honor Council, orchestra and chamber music, and an extracurricular reading group about the Criminal Justice System.
It's going to be a freaking fantastic last semester. I will be sleeping all summer to make up for it.
Fourth-Year Japanese: I am 33.3% of the class this semester. It's going to be an adorably intimate class (holler). Also, we're reading Murakami Haruki. In Japanese. :|
Second-Year Chinese: The usual madness. I love it to bits but I failed at "keeping Chinese warm", so I have some catching up to do. Liz ended up not going abroad, which is at once heartbreaking and thrilling, because I can't help but feel sad for her when she was so ready and excited for it, but at the same time, I am swimming in warm, fuzzy thoughts about how Liz has not left me.
American Politics: Difference and Discrimination: My first ever PoliSci course! We're going to be looking at the US political system and specifically how it relates to marginalized groups -- racial minorities, the poor, homosexuals, etc. It seems interesting so far. I just wish we had a zealous and vocal conservative in the class to shake things up. I keep finding myself agreeing with all of the progressive and socially liberal things people say in class, and I just want someone to really argue with (and complain about outside of class) for a change, instead of having people mumble through hypothesized counterarguments that they don't really believe in.
Lesbian Immortal: It is what it is, yo. English class at Bryn Mawr with someone who is apparently a phenomenal professor. (She's Bri'ish and awesome.) I like her already, and I can easily see how effective she is as a professor -- she framed the course really well within the history of queer studies and articulated the trajectory of the question we're asking within the class (as well as how we're going to try to work out the answer) really well. I am so. excited. for this course, but it'll be a good deal of reading (which I'm slow at) and a kind of academic work (analysis of literature and poetry) that I'm not great at. But! I hope to learn a lot. m(_ _)m
And then, of course, there's the ever-lovely Honor Council, orchestra and chamber music, and an extracurricular reading group about the Criminal Justice System.
It's going to be a freaking fantastic last semester. I will be sleeping all summer to make up for it.
