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A couple of the days last week seemed as if they could have won the Longest Day Ever award, but I think that today actually took the cake (mmmm, cake). I think that subconsiously I was dreading going to Biology, because it's a night class and because it's, well, biology.
The day started off fairly well; at 5:45 I rolled out of bed and across the street to the HPER. All of that rolling had a positive effect in that I didn't realize I was jogging until I'd already been around the track several times. For some reason, the gym was VERY busy. And it wasn't just because the army people (the ROTC?) were there. I'd never seen the gym that busy at 6 a.m.
From there I went to work from 8-12. I dusted, which means that I had a productive morning.
At 1:00 I had my Social Inequalities class. We did this intriguing exercise where we were given a list of 15 people and told that we could only choose 9 of the people to survive a boating accident. Our list included a nun, a drug-addicted doctor, a criminal with boating experience, a disabled child, a young, married couple, a washing machine salesman, etc. It was quite interesting to discuss who we would and wouldn't save.
After class I walked to the off-campus bookstore to buy the book for my new American Nations class. The book had not been in my possession for 30 minutes when a secretary from the writing department called to let me know that I could get into a closed class. Yay!! I walked over to Thompson Hall to get the forms, then to the Registrar's to finalize and pay. Since I did end up getting into the Linguistics class, I dropped American Nations. Now all I have to do is return the book that I just bought... I just didn't feel like walking back to the bookstore twice in the same day, so I'll have to do it tomorrow.
At 5 I ate dinner with Joe, Kristen and Kat before running off to Biology. It really wasn't as bad as I was bracing for! I sat next to Kitty, one of the new international students from China. I kept thinking of how hard it must be to process 20-million syllabic, scientific words such as "Prokaryotic" in a foreign language. Yup, things could be worse than gen ed biology.
The day started off fairly well; at 5:45 I rolled out of bed and across the street to the HPER. All of that rolling had a positive effect in that I didn't realize I was jogging until I'd already been around the track several times. For some reason, the gym was VERY busy. And it wasn't just because the army people (the ROTC?) were there. I'd never seen the gym that busy at 6 a.m.
From there I went to work from 8-12. I dusted, which means that I had a productive morning.
At 1:00 I had my Social Inequalities class. We did this intriguing exercise where we were given a list of 15 people and told that we could only choose 9 of the people to survive a boating accident. Our list included a nun, a drug-addicted doctor, a criminal with boating experience, a disabled child, a young, married couple, a washing machine salesman, etc. It was quite interesting to discuss who we would and wouldn't save.
After class I walked to the off-campus bookstore to buy the book for my new American Nations class. The book had not been in my possession for 30 minutes when a secretary from the writing department called to let me know that I could get into a closed class. Yay!! I walked over to Thompson Hall to get the forms, then to the Registrar's to finalize and pay. Since I did end up getting into the Linguistics class, I dropped American Nations. Now all I have to do is return the book that I just bought... I just didn't feel like walking back to the bookstore twice in the same day, so I'll have to do it tomorrow.
At 5 I ate dinner with Joe, Kristen and Kat before running off to Biology. It really wasn't as bad as I was bracing for! I sat next to Kitty, one of the new international students from China. I kept thinking of how hard it must be to process 20-million syllabic, scientific words such as "Prokaryotic" in a foreign language. Yup, things could be worse than gen ed biology.