So, it's 3rd week here and I'm still not feeling any significant amount of stress about getting my work done. I'm not sure how well I'm doing in my classes, but I'm usually done with my work really early and I feel like I understand what I'm reading. We haven't turned in anything major or taken any huge tests yet, but so far so good. I'm usually in bed by 11 or midnight... something my friends are really jealous of.
My Chinese Religion class is really interesting and I'm considering taking Chinese next year instead of doing Spanish next term. I think it might upset mom, but I have all the tools I need to learn Spanish at home and I really want to take advantage of this opportunity. I think it'd be really challenging. Also, to fulfill my language requirement for it I'd have to take more than a year of it as opposed to the one semester of Spanish I'd have to take, nevertheless I'm considering it. (But still really intimidated by the whole idea.)
My Cinema and Media Studies class is really interesting. The prof is clearly an expert in the field and loves what she does. We screen movies on Tuesdays and Thursdays. So far we've watched Broken Blossoms, Stagecoach, and Now Voyager. We also listened to The War of the Worlds radio broadcast, which has a really interesting back story... think hysteria on a massive scale because people thought the program about aliens taking over Earth was real, what sillies. Tonight we're watching Citizen Kane and I'm pretty excited for it.
There's a lot less to say about my psych class. It's lecture based and a tad boring. We're working with very elementary concepts right now and we get a lot of busy work assignments, but we have a big test next Wednesday, so we'll see how that goes.
Anyway, all in all everything at Carleton is great. My stint with influenza really didn't hinder my work, it was actually nice to take a week off from the dining hall though. That place has taken so many turns for the worst. The supervisors have lost a lot of points in all of the chefs, student managers, and student workers' books. The chefs and the rest of the staff are still great. Maybe I'll take some of my spare time to call corporate on the supervisors :). Haha.
I went to a hockey game last weekend and I went ice skating out on the bald spot yesterday. I watched the inauguration during my CAMS class, our teacher ended up getting really caught up in the excitement and just let the class go after she took a picture of us (so we'd remember where we were during this moment in history). Silly, Carol.
It's Friday Eve guys!!!! :) !!!
4 comments:
Hey tina! Thanks for your update on the Carleton life. I've been really missing knox college's campus. It is a nice thing to be able to say that classes aren't too challenging, right? There will be plenty of challenges ahead of you, no doubt, to be really pushed to your minds limits. Enjoy this while it lasts.
I say go for the Chinese! When else will you get the chance to formally learn that language? Be sure to keep exploring those routes which only seemed like distant possibilities, for through the common intellectual farming grounds of college those seeds may indeed take root and grow into something magnificent!
(This 4 am post is thanks to being really tired and falling asleep on my couch at 7pm last night. I am enjoying some good books right now, including Into the Wild and King Lear. Whealp, back to reading.)
Tina: thanks for sharing, your presence is dearly missed at 536. It's one of mom's birthday today so I'm hanging out here and relaxing. Mom's other birthday is coming up on Feb 1st I believe.
Tony: I was never sure how to spell whealp, thank you for opening my eyes.
"Be sure to keep exploring those routes which only seemed like distant possibilities, for through the common intellectual farming grounds of college those seeds may indeed take root and grow into something magnificent!"
You had me cracking up, but well said.
Most Epic responses ever. "It's one of mom's birthday today…" I just put that into a text document because its win. Tina why u dun callin it influenza fer? iz pernunced da flu get ih straigh
Tom, did you know instead of using the outdated text editor you can use Google Docs and access the win from anywhere.
When it comes to the internet there are tons of other things that I can show you that are pretty neat.
ps GIMP = win ... google it
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