Back to the grind
It's back to school and back to the science grind again. I've decided to keep giving science the old college try. Every time I get the idea that I could go to law school I end up spending some time working in my dad's law office and remember why I swore I would never be an attorney in the first place. It's a very stressful and thankless job, not to mention there's a glut of attorneys going into the field these days which makes an already feast-or-famine job more on the famine side unless you're willing to spend your entire life at the office. I still have several classes that can bolster my science GPA, and there's also the great equalizer of the DAT.
Phsiology seems like it's going to be thankfully easy after the hell that was Anatomy last semester. The teacher is really nice and seems to genuinely care that her students do well, a big change from the indifferent sadistic prof I was afraid I would be stuck with.
Physics looks like it might be a tad difficult just because I haven't had any of the related math classes since graduating from high school. It takes a bit of brushing up to remember the trig and geometry that I had five and seven years ago respectively, but as long as I do the practice problems I shouldn't have much trouble.
Organic Chemistry is slightly incomprehensible so far. I need to go back and do a bit of review on s and p orbitals from my General Chem book, and it would also be helpful if the textbook for the course that I ordered online would come in already.
I'm also taking one English course since I'll be graduating with an English Studies degree under my belt. It's over British literature from the 18th century to today. I've always been a bigger fan of British Literature than the American variety, so the class should be a pleasure. There'll be a lot of reading involved, but I got most of my leisure reading out of the way over the summer anyways. We're reading Frankenstein for starters, the 1818 edition rather than the heavily revised 1831 edition. I've never been a fan of the epistolary novel or the mad scientist genre, but the prose is easily readable which makes up for those other strikes against it.
In other news, we'll be moving to a house on campus soon. I say about time, the money saved in mileage alone will be well worth it. It's also in the middle of one of the nicer neighborhoods on campus and within easy biking distance to all of my classes. The space is a bit smaller than what we have at the current house, but it will be well worth it to be close to school like a real college kid instead of having to commute 15 minutes and spending another 10-15 minutes walking from the commuter lot.
Phsiology seems like it's going to be thankfully easy after the hell that was Anatomy last semester. The teacher is really nice and seems to genuinely care that her students do well, a big change from the indifferent sadistic prof I was afraid I would be stuck with.
Physics looks like it might be a tad difficult just because I haven't had any of the related math classes since graduating from high school. It takes a bit of brushing up to remember the trig and geometry that I had five and seven years ago respectively, but as long as I do the practice problems I shouldn't have much trouble.
Organic Chemistry is slightly incomprehensible so far. I need to go back and do a bit of review on s and p orbitals from my General Chem book, and it would also be helpful if the textbook for the course that I ordered online would come in already.
I'm also taking one English course since I'll be graduating with an English Studies degree under my belt. It's over British literature from the 18th century to today. I've always been a bigger fan of British Literature than the American variety, so the class should be a pleasure. There'll be a lot of reading involved, but I got most of my leisure reading out of the way over the summer anyways. We're reading Frankenstein for starters, the 1818 edition rather than the heavily revised 1831 edition. I've never been a fan of the epistolary novel or the mad scientist genre, but the prose is easily readable which makes up for those other strikes against it.
In other news, we'll be moving to a house on campus soon. I say about time, the money saved in mileage alone will be well worth it. It's also in the middle of one of the nicer neighborhoods on campus and within easy biking distance to all of my classes. The space is a bit smaller than what we have at the current house, but it will be well worth it to be close to school like a real college kid instead of having to commute 15 minutes and spending another 10-15 minutes walking from the commuter lot.