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So, it's been a long, busy week. School started on Monday plus it's been rather hectic at work as well. All that makes for a very tired self this Friday afternoon.
Monday was film class. This looks like it will be very enjoyable although a very long single evening a week class. "Film and Social Justice", we started out by watching an early 50's film "Salt of the Earth". It was enjoyable, and some of the issues it brought up could be quite current. This isn't a class for my major, but is my first of several classes towards my General University Studies requirements I need to finish.
I got home at about 10pm though, very tired from a long day. Working & class from before 8am till 9:30pm will make for a long day.
Tuesday was my first math class - differential equations, or Diff.EQ for short. This is twice a week for almost 2.5 hours each session. Each class we cover about 1-2 "normal" class length sessions worth of work. This is my first class at my new school for my major. The hard part is it's been over 3 years since I last had ANY academic class, let alone a math class. The good part is a lot of the basics of this topic I've already had via other classes -- the upper division Chem classes I've taken, other math classes, Physics, research time, etc. So a lot of what I've learned already is starting to come back, but in odd bits and pieces. For instance slope fields and how to visually (using graphs) hop up and down the integral/differential chain came back super quick, before he even started teaching that section I found myself using it. But how to actually DO differentiating & integrals...not to mention some odd more basic things is taking more work to dredge. Here's hoping I'll get back into the full swing of things before much longer.
It seems that I've already taken a lot of this class before, and it's possible it was just called something else at PLU where I used to be and got transferred into something else here at my new school. This is a lower division class, so I'm hoping it will be fairly easy and a good warm-up before jumping into lots of just Upper Division math & stat classes come the actual school year. Since, that's all I really have left to complete to graduate, having taken the basic classes years before. Homework gets assigned, but in my teacher's kind of funky grading system it's not actually "due", but the quizes (which are indeed graded) are just a few homework problems pulled at "random", not changed at all, and those are the quiz. Do the homework and figure it out then, then you're able to breeze through the quizzes. Or at least that's the theory. No calculators either, at all, which is a very interesting quirk in a teacher I haven't seen in a long time. Get home late again, but not quite as late.
Wednesday is a break day - at least no classes. However, I do spend the entire evening after work down at the local brew pub, nursing a bottle of raspberry lambic, studying math for over 3 hours. I get through about half the homework. If I'm going to continue this method of semi-over-excessive studying, then this is going to take a lot of time. Hrm. Get back home about 10 again and to sleep.
Thursday, Math class again. Apparently our teacher has a social life and scheduled a "date" before he knew he'd be teaching in this time slot. So we get out class early, about half way through. Not such a bad thing. I get home earlier than usual and relax a little with my husband. This is a good thing.
Friday (today) no class. However, along with the rest of this week, work's been busy and continues to be busy, so there's the dealing with trying to put out and contain all the little fires before they turn into all-consuming forrest fires. That and it's the end of the month. Month end joyousness as well is starting and will continue during all of next week as well. Oh, and that during this week I was also sick with the head/throat cold my husband so kindly gave me. So that made everything else even more tiring. Luckily during my worst day I didn't have school and so didn't have to balance on a motorcycle to and from work & school & home. I got the car. :) It's the little things that matter.
Oh, and tonight, I'll be watching a movie...for class. "Live Nude Girls Unite!", a documentary about the origins and forming of the San Francisco stripper's union (I'm pretty sure). Did I mention I like that class? Tomorrow will be more math. And cleaning the apartment. And a tiny bit of social gathering with others, which will be nice.
I'm looking very much forward to the weekend that's (not quite quickly enough) approaching. Oh, and that hot tub my apartment complex has. Mmm, that sounds good. All I can say is, TGIF. And TG for hot tubs. And alcohol (though I'm hoping I won't need that after the before mentioned hot tubs). Uff Da it's been a loooooong week.
Monday was film class. This looks like it will be very enjoyable although a very long single evening a week class. "Film and Social Justice", we started out by watching an early 50's film "Salt of the Earth". It was enjoyable, and some of the issues it brought up could be quite current. This isn't a class for my major, but is my first of several classes towards my General University Studies requirements I need to finish.
I got home at about 10pm though, very tired from a long day. Working & class from before 8am till 9:30pm will make for a long day.
Tuesday was my first math class - differential equations, or Diff.EQ for short. This is twice a week for almost 2.5 hours each session. Each class we cover about 1-2 "normal" class length sessions worth of work. This is my first class at my new school for my major. The hard part is it's been over 3 years since I last had ANY academic class, let alone a math class. The good part is a lot of the basics of this topic I've already had via other classes -- the upper division Chem classes I've taken, other math classes, Physics, research time, etc. So a lot of what I've learned already is starting to come back, but in odd bits and pieces. For instance slope fields and how to visually (using graphs) hop up and down the integral/differential chain came back super quick, before he even started teaching that section I found myself using it. But how to actually DO differentiating & integrals...not to mention some odd more basic things is taking more work to dredge. Here's hoping I'll get back into the full swing of things before much longer.
It seems that I've already taken a lot of this class before, and it's possible it was just called something else at PLU where I used to be and got transferred into something else here at my new school. This is a lower division class, so I'm hoping it will be fairly easy and a good warm-up before jumping into lots of just Upper Division math & stat classes come the actual school year. Since, that's all I really have left to complete to graduate, having taken the basic classes years before. Homework gets assigned, but in my teacher's kind of funky grading system it's not actually "due", but the quizes (which are indeed graded) are just a few homework problems pulled at "random", not changed at all, and those are the quiz. Do the homework and figure it out then, then you're able to breeze through the quizzes. Or at least that's the theory. No calculators either, at all, which is a very interesting quirk in a teacher I haven't seen in a long time. Get home late again, but not quite as late.
Wednesday is a break day - at least no classes. However, I do spend the entire evening after work down at the local brew pub, nursing a bottle of raspberry lambic, studying math for over 3 hours. I get through about half the homework. If I'm going to continue this method of semi-over-excessive studying, then this is going to take a lot of time. Hrm. Get back home about 10 again and to sleep.
Thursday, Math class again. Apparently our teacher has a social life and scheduled a "date" before he knew he'd be teaching in this time slot. So we get out class early, about half way through. Not such a bad thing. I get home earlier than usual and relax a little with my husband. This is a good thing.
Friday (today) no class. However, along with the rest of this week, work's been busy and continues to be busy, so there's the dealing with trying to put out and contain all the little fires before they turn into all-consuming forrest fires. That and it's the end of the month. Month end joyousness as well is starting and will continue during all of next week as well. Oh, and that during this week I was also sick with the head/throat cold my husband so kindly gave me. So that made everything else even more tiring. Luckily during my worst day I didn't have school and so didn't have to balance on a motorcycle to and from work & school & home. I got the car. :) It's the little things that matter.
Oh, and tonight, I'll be watching a movie...for class. "Live Nude Girls Unite!", a documentary about the origins and forming of the San Francisco stripper's union (I'm pretty sure). Did I mention I like that class? Tomorrow will be more math. And cleaning the apartment. And a tiny bit of social gathering with others, which will be nice.
I'm looking very much forward to the weekend that's (not quite quickly enough) approaching. Oh, and that hot tub my apartment complex has. Mmm, that sounds good. All I can say is, TGIF. And TG for hot tubs. And alcohol (though I'm hoping I won't need that after the before mentioned hot tubs). Uff Da it's been a loooooong week.