Overcaffeinated ramblings!
Hi. It sucks I keep disappearing from LJ, I know, but especially now that I have a creative writing class and have to write two pages a day, every day, for that class, it sort of kills my need to update my every thought in electronic form, because I'm already doing that on paper to meet the length requirement. I have my same dorm room as last year, but a new roommate, and she brought one of those boards that goes across the space between the two desks, so even though it takes up some space, we have more counter room and I can look out at the bluffs while I do homework (translated: mess around with stupid little electronic distractions on my laptop.) I've been reading yoursforever_me's LJ a bit too, and am glad 6th form is going well so far for her, and that she gets to see Andy a lot before he leaves for uni again. It just makes me so happy for her to know that they're finally "official!"
I have this semester:
Elementary Statistics (which is not half as hard as I thought it would be, and the prof is really eccentric and passionate. *imitates his East Indian accent* "Statistics is NOT mathematics! It is very important! I am now going to wave my arms around wildly! Who can tell me what the standard deviation of this data set is?" It's almost not a bad class. I actually get it so far!)
20th Century Ideologies (a 300 level political science course taught by my former honors professor. Read: a class so based in discussion and questioning that we actually spent a whole class period trying to, as a class, choose whether to have pop quizzes or have advance notice of quizzes, and also choosing HOW to decide that as a class)
German 420- German history after the fall of the Berlin Wall (taught by one of my favorite professors who is also my academic advisor. We learn German history in German, as it would be taught to German high school seniors (they have a 13th grade there,) and there's a student from Berlin who helps us out.)
Creative Writing (English 305)- A slightly boring class on how to start writing good fiction and poetry; I get bored there because I largely already know, or think I know, how to write well. I like the professor, but I worry, because he said "Some of the best writing comes from your most difficult life experiences, and if you never touch on them in this class, that's a loss and a waste." So does that mean I'm, like, obligated to write about you-know-what? (not writing what it actually is because my computer screen is facing our now-open door.))
Music Appreciation- An easy required class where we learn about instruments and different periods in music history
Life here was good so far; I think I might actually have friends this year.
The past few hours haven't been kind though. After I got done with stats at 10:50, I was really tired because I slept poorly last night, so I went to the library for a cup of coffee. Since I was absolutely exhausted, I ordered a medium regular coffee with a shot of espresso in it, then sipped that as I did my homework. By the time I left the library just before noon, I was torn between whether to puke or have a seizure; every muscle was literally twitching, and I could barely hold the pen to write my two pages for today! I found this really strange, because I am a person who can drink a large latte, then go straight to sleep, but I could tell I was seriously overcaffeinated just from this! It was like I was high! I'm still a bit hyper, and my stomach's sort of uncomfortable, and I have to pee every five minutes, and when I do, it actually SMELLS like espresso, but I'm better than before, anyway.
I have to close now because I have to pee AGAIN.
How are you all?
I have this semester:
Elementary Statistics (which is not half as hard as I thought it would be, and the prof is really eccentric and passionate. *imitates his East Indian accent* "Statistics is NOT mathematics! It is very important! I am now going to wave my arms around wildly! Who can tell me what the standard deviation of this data set is?" It's almost not a bad class. I actually get it so far!)
20th Century Ideologies (a 300 level political science course taught by my former honors professor. Read: a class so based in discussion and questioning that we actually spent a whole class period trying to, as a class, choose whether to have pop quizzes or have advance notice of quizzes, and also choosing HOW to decide that as a class)
German 420- German history after the fall of the Berlin Wall (taught by one of my favorite professors who is also my academic advisor. We learn German history in German, as it would be taught to German high school seniors (they have a 13th grade there,) and there's a student from Berlin who helps us out.)
Creative Writing (English 305)- A slightly boring class on how to start writing good fiction and poetry; I get bored there because I largely already know, or think I know, how to write well. I like the professor, but I worry, because he said "Some of the best writing comes from your most difficult life experiences, and if you never touch on them in this class, that's a loss and a waste." So does that mean I'm, like, obligated to write about you-know-what? (not writing what it actually is because my computer screen is facing our now-open door.))
Music Appreciation- An easy required class where we learn about instruments and different periods in music history
Life here was good so far; I think I might actually have friends this year.
The past few hours haven't been kind though. After I got done with stats at 10:50, I was really tired because I slept poorly last night, so I went to the library for a cup of coffee. Since I was absolutely exhausted, I ordered a medium regular coffee with a shot of espresso in it, then sipped that as I did my homework. By the time I left the library just before noon, I was torn between whether to puke or have a seizure; every muscle was literally twitching, and I could barely hold the pen to write my two pages for today! I found this really strange, because I am a person who can drink a large latte, then go straight to sleep, but I could tell I was seriously overcaffeinated just from this! It was like I was high! I'm still a bit hyper, and my stomach's sort of uncomfortable, and I have to pee every five minutes, and when I do, it actually SMELLS like espresso, but I'm better than before, anyway.
I have to close now because I have to pee AGAIN.
How are you all?