At WU, Class Schedule &*%$s You!
Usually I love my university, but it is eight in the morning, I haven't slept, and I am not enthused about what I'm getting into for next semester. Also, our scheduling and administration site sucks. But, to give you some idea:
WU doesn't have requirements --strictly speaking. What we have instead are clusters, groups of classes that seem to fit together. Some of these make sense: Arabic I with Arabic II. Some of them are off the wall: Mathematics and Music with Calculus and Renaissance Wind Ensemble. (No joke.)
This can be wonderful. It can push you in directions you need to go, teach you things you didn't know, show you connections between subjects you might never have guessed were there.
It can also be a gigantic royal pain in the ass.
I want to take Arabic. I think it will be valuable, and I'm interested in Islamic Civilizations and the Middle East. So, Arabic 107D. 10-11 MTWTF.
I also want to take Step Aerobics. 11-12:30 MW. And the Early Medievial World, 4-5:30, MW. So that'll be nine credits there.
Then on Tuesdays and Thursdays, I'm looking at Arabic again, followed by Human Variation from 11:30-1, and Lucretius from 2:30-4:00. That's fifteen credits.
Oh, and I want to take the "Flowering of Islamic Literature 500-1200", but (funny!) it's at the same time as "Lucretius". I'm already passing on a bunch of Classics courses to take Step Aerobics (and won't my advisor be thrilled?!) so there's no way I can also ditch my Lucretius class.
But I'm also contemplating developing my own major, a sort of Arabic and Islamic Civilization meets the Crusades, the Dark Ages, and Late Antiquity, for which I haven't a title yet. So I don't want to miss the literature class. And ARGH. Just ARGH.
Not to mention that I can't take a second section of Aerobics on Tuesdays and Thursdays because of Human Variation --which I don't want to take, but don't have the option to skip.
So here I am firing off another message to the History department that reads something like the following:
"Dear History Department:
I am very grateful you have enticed Professor Pegg back (even if you were silly and have not gone crawling to Professor Hingst to get her to stay) and now I would like it very much if you could find it in your tiny, ashy, inky little heart to offer me an independent study in this relatively obscure class on Islamic Literature. Would be ever so grateful.
Toodles and kisses!
-Rantza"
I suppose if it doesn't pan out then I can go to the Art of the Fatamids professor and beg her for an independent study (and I might do it anyway, not that I'd survive the course load.) But oh, oh, how I want things to stop overlapping. And for WEBSTAC to stop being a shit.
This is me frowning heavily. Grr.
WU doesn't have requirements --strictly speaking. What we have instead are clusters, groups of classes that seem to fit together. Some of these make sense: Arabic I with Arabic II. Some of them are off the wall: Mathematics and Music with Calculus and Renaissance Wind Ensemble. (No joke.)
This can be wonderful. It can push you in directions you need to go, teach you things you didn't know, show you connections between subjects you might never have guessed were there.
It can also be a gigantic royal pain in the ass.
I want to take Arabic. I think it will be valuable, and I'm interested in Islamic Civilizations and the Middle East. So, Arabic 107D. 10-11 MTWTF.
I also want to take Step Aerobics. 11-12:30 MW. And the Early Medievial World, 4-5:30, MW. So that'll be nine credits there.
Then on Tuesdays and Thursdays, I'm looking at Arabic again, followed by Human Variation from 11:30-1, and Lucretius from 2:30-4:00. That's fifteen credits.
Oh, and I want to take the "Flowering of Islamic Literature 500-1200", but (funny!) it's at the same time as "Lucretius". I'm already passing on a bunch of Classics courses to take Step Aerobics (and won't my advisor be thrilled?!) so there's no way I can also ditch my Lucretius class.
But I'm also contemplating developing my own major, a sort of Arabic and Islamic Civilization meets the Crusades, the Dark Ages, and Late Antiquity, for which I haven't a title yet. So I don't want to miss the literature class. And ARGH. Just ARGH.
Not to mention that I can't take a second section of Aerobics on Tuesdays and Thursdays because of Human Variation --which I don't want to take, but don't have the option to skip.
So here I am firing off another message to the History department that reads something like the following:
"Dear History Department:
I am very grateful you have enticed Professor Pegg back (even if you were silly and have not gone crawling to Professor Hingst to get her to stay) and now I would like it very much if you could find it in your tiny, ashy, inky little heart to offer me an independent study in this relatively obscure class on Islamic Literature. Would be ever so grateful.
Toodles and kisses!
-Rantza"
I suppose if it doesn't pan out then I can go to the Art of the Fatamids professor and beg her for an independent study (and I might do it anyway, not that I'd survive the course load.) But oh, oh, how I want things to stop overlapping. And for WEBSTAC to stop being a shit.
This is me frowning heavily. Grr.