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First week of classes is over. Not quite as bad as I would have expected a 20-credit load to be. Brace for boring overview of my classes in 3... 2... 1...
Engineering Dynamics: A continuation of the engineering classes I've been taking. IEA was static and rigid bodies, Strengths was static and flexible bodies, Dynamics is moving on to moving and rigid bodies, and I've got something else later on that'll be moving and flexible bodies. Yay. The class seems good enough. Homework's never required, but there's random quizzes so it helps to do homework and reading so we're ready for those. Friends: Carol, Allan
Cognitive Psychology: My first 4000 level class, and after finishing this I'll be all set with my humanities/social sciences requirements. Doesn't seem like it'll be too hard. Much like Gen Psych, it just seems like it's a "read the book and you'll ace the class" thing, though this one has two projects involved; one is to make a chart of how our view of cognitive psychology has changed throughout the semester, and one is a "group" (two-person) project on a major concept learned in the course. Friends: Chaz
Laboratory Introduction To Embedded Control: This is gonna be my problem class. It's basically we're given a computer program and a blimp or RC car, and we have to program these to do things. Unfortunately, I've never taken a programming class before, so I don't know what the heck's going on. Stupid Prof. Craig trying to make me fail at life by not teaching me anything about programming... >.< The concept of the class seems fun enough, but there's little to no chance I'll understand any of it by the end of the semester. At least I understood the binary/hex translations we did in the first lecture. Friends: Dan Hunt, Grandma
Japanese 2: If I can actually catch back up, this class should be easy. I kinda forgot most of the Japanese I stuff, so I gotta relearn a lot of that before I have any hope here. But considering that's a review, rather than seeing the stuff for the first time, it should be easy enough, so long as I actually work at it. One project due towards the end of the semester to prove that we're actually grasping the Japanese language. Also a group (two-person) project, so that should be somewhat simple. Friends: Carol, Chaz, Alex, Jessica
Modeling and Analysis of Uncertainty: So far this is just "Here's data, here's fifty different ways to plot data." People rated the prof as horrible on ratemyprofessor.com, but she doesn't seem THAT bad... yet. Several projects in this class, and I think all but the first are two-person group projects. Seems like this class will be easy enough. Friends: Marissa, Nathaniel, Grandma
Orchestra: Sucks as bad as always, but at least Gibson picked us better music this time. And by better, I mean that the percussion actually has something to play. Too bad I was the only percussionist to show up to our rehearsal last week. >.> Friends: Gabi, Chaz
Wow... so it didn't occur to me until I wrote this that four of my classes have group projects as a large part of the grade. Hopefully working with other people will help keep me on top of my work. Especially since I don't have much in the way of conventional homework, just lots of reading, so I don't really have much else to motivate me to keep up with my work. But yeah, that's the overview of my semester thus far. Yay.
Engineering Dynamics: A continuation of the engineering classes I've been taking. IEA was static and rigid bodies, Strengths was static and flexible bodies, Dynamics is moving on to moving and rigid bodies, and I've got something else later on that'll be moving and flexible bodies. Yay. The class seems good enough. Homework's never required, but there's random quizzes so it helps to do homework and reading so we're ready for those. Friends: Carol, Allan
Cognitive Psychology: My first 4000 level class, and after finishing this I'll be all set with my humanities/social sciences requirements. Doesn't seem like it'll be too hard. Much like Gen Psych, it just seems like it's a "read the book and you'll ace the class" thing, though this one has two projects involved; one is to make a chart of how our view of cognitive psychology has changed throughout the semester, and one is a "group" (two-person) project on a major concept learned in the course. Friends: Chaz
Laboratory Introduction To Embedded Control: This is gonna be my problem class. It's basically we're given a computer program and a blimp or RC car, and we have to program these to do things. Unfortunately, I've never taken a programming class before, so I don't know what the heck's going on. Stupid Prof. Craig trying to make me fail at life by not teaching me anything about programming... >.< The concept of the class seems fun enough, but there's little to no chance I'll understand any of it by the end of the semester. At least I understood the binary/hex translations we did in the first lecture. Friends: Dan Hunt, Grandma
Japanese 2: If I can actually catch back up, this class should be easy. I kinda forgot most of the Japanese I stuff, so I gotta relearn a lot of that before I have any hope here. But considering that's a review, rather than seeing the stuff for the first time, it should be easy enough, so long as I actually work at it. One project due towards the end of the semester to prove that we're actually grasping the Japanese language. Also a group (two-person) project, so that should be somewhat simple. Friends: Carol, Chaz, Alex, Jessica
Modeling and Analysis of Uncertainty: So far this is just "Here's data, here's fifty different ways to plot data." People rated the prof as horrible on ratemyprofessor.com, but she doesn't seem THAT bad... yet. Several projects in this class, and I think all but the first are two-person group projects. Seems like this class will be easy enough. Friends: Marissa, Nathaniel, Grandma
Orchestra: Sucks as bad as always, but at least Gibson picked us better music this time. And by better, I mean that the percussion actually has something to play. Too bad I was the only percussionist to show up to our rehearsal last week. >.> Friends: Gabi, Chaz
Wow... so it didn't occur to me until I wrote this that four of my classes have group projects as a large part of the grade. Hopefully working with other people will help keep me on top of my work. Especially since I don't have much in the way of conventional homework, just lots of reading, so I don't really have much else to motivate me to keep up with my work. But yeah, that's the overview of my semester thus far. Yay.