Scheduling Woes
Not having a functioning computer of my own is getting reeaally oldd. Also the computer in the apartment complex lobby is useless (it has windows 95, an even older version of microsoft Explorer, and a dial up connection that wants a password I don't have).
In other news, Professor Gardner of course threatened in the strongest terms to without exception drop anyone from POL121 who doesn't have the prereqs... one of which I don't have. Being the devious person that I am and NOT wanting to take "statistics for poli sci" I decided to stick it out in the class until I get dropped.. hoping that it was just a scary bluff and he's not really gonna bother.. I mean he really doesn't need to do anything now since everyone else who it applied to DID drop. Anyway, since I may or may not be taking the class I have either 13 or 17 units this quarter. Thats a problem because I don't want 13 units.
I tried signing up for POL122 (International Law) but it told me I was waitlisted (only at number 2 though) and that was good enough for me... but then the next day I realized that it DIDN'T actually waitlist me because you have to push a button to confirm you want to be waitlisted, despite appearances... and POL122 was no longer available by that point. Then I added POL196 (Internat'l Relations Seminar) but Professor Siverson is a troll and bounced me right out of THAT one. NOW I'm signed up for Anthropology 3 (Intro to Archeology) because I couldn't find anything else remotely interesting and hey I did want to be an archeologist when I was a wee lad. But I think I'm gonna drop it and just give up on that whole operation because the class times for ANT3 are at really inconvenient times for me. The End.
Anyone ever notice that around the 1st and 2nd week of school the new freshman run rampant and hella shopping carts appear in the shrubbery and parks near the freshman dorms?
Quote of the day from my nuclear physics professor: "if your reactor blows its top all your emergency plans are out the window and which exit to take isn't really important anymore." So uh.. remember that kids.
In other news: the Russian Volume II textbook has the "top ten reasons for studying Russian" on the back. Volume I had a different top ten list as well, one item of which was "the word for hello has 13 letters." Anyway, the top ten list from this version:
10. That easy and logical Russian grammer.
09. Fool your friends, make them think you're talking backwards
08. You pick up Bulgarian 15% faster! (damn, until just now I thought that said "you can pick up Bulgarians 15% faster," something I was rather excited about.)
07. Every adjective deserves a good ending
06. For when you're in an indicitive mood.
05. You can use Cyrillic as a secret code for writing love letters.
04. For those of us with perfective tastes.
03. French is passe, German isn't popular, and Spanish is just a bunch of cognates.
02. Everyone has a soft spot for a soft sign.
01. The book is cool!
Finally, everyone should check out this strong sauce entry.