I’ve been back at school for 4 days now, I love it. I missed this place so much – the place and my friends and my life here. I’m feeling a lot better than I was 5 weeks ago, let alone a week ago. I still get tired really easy though and I can’t seem to stay asleep for more than 5 or 6 hours at a time (although something tells me that’s due to more than being sick…)
Anyways, classes started yesterday. Mondays are really going to hurt me – 4 classes, 1 three hour lab. In all, a total of 8 hours of class on Monday. Tuesdays are much better with only two classes which the first one doesn’t start until 1. Wednesdays are repeats of Mondays but with no lab, Thursdays I only have 1 class that doesn’t start until 2:30 and Friday I only have 3 classes with no night class. So really, Monday is pretty much the only crappy day of the week. I’ve been to all of my classes now and I really think I’m going to enjoy them all.
Gen. Chem 2 – Having a younger professor is great. He realizes that none of us are chem majors and isn’t requiring us to know ridiculous details. He gives us note pages which are printouts of the overheads and today he gave us about 4 pages of review from last semester. No longer do I have quizzes every week and I’m actually going to have homework assigned, which actually makes me happy. Hopefully I’ll get a better grade in this course this semester.
Modern Physics – I’m going to love this class. We walked in yesterday, and the first thing we were told was that everything we’ve been taught in the last three semesters (or 3 1/2 years for me of physics) is a lie. Our first ‘extra credit’ assignment is to explain why it’s all been a lie! haha… that’s just great. He’s also going to be giving us blueprints for a time machine so we can travel to the future. What an interesting class…
Math Physics – What can I say? It’s my two favorite subjects, math and physics, combined into one course. Not to mention the course is taught by my adviser and quite possibly one of my favorite professors I’ve had so far.
Modern Physics Lab – This is going to be a very interesting/intense lab. Thankfully I only have one lab this semester versus the three I had last semester. But the labs seem very interesting and the subject matter is intriguing in itself. Also, at the end of the semester we each have to give a 20 minute talk on a topic of our choice. I’m actually excited for this, to get to explore in depth a topic of my interest in physics.
Algorithms and Data Structures 1 – Okay I lied when I said all my classes were interesting. This one will hopefully pick up, but the first class was extremely slow and boring. This is my two hour night class, two days a week. It’s the first course in the computer science minor sequence so I had to take it. I’ve already had 1 1/2 years of programming so I know a lot of what we’ll be learning. So let’s just say this will be an easy/relaxing class compared to my others.
History of Christianity - My intro to Theology course, I’m taking it with a friend which is nice. We had our first class today, it’s going to be reading intensive, but only 1 paper and two tests. The subject material seems very interesting though and the professor is extremely into what he is teaching, which I really like. One thing in particular that I’m excited about for this class is that we are all providing him with what he calls ‘no limits questions’. We can ask him any question pertaining to religion, turn it in on Thursday and throughout the semester at the beginning of each class he is going to answer all of our questions.
~ JenJen ~
I suppose I should try to find a healthy escape, that doesn’t involve computer games, lol, but this will have to do for now.
very exciting – hopefully it will be all that I hope it will be…
