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This is the first year I put serious thought into putting together my bracket. Things have already begun to derail with florida state, WVU, and wake's losses in the first round (since I predicted them to all go to the sweet 16). I love Wake and their style, and think they'll do much, much better next year with consistency since their graduating class is weak anyway, and hopefully with this early loss none of their starters will make the NBA and all return with more consistency and experience.
Twitter is fueling my basketball addiction. I can now wallow/gloat/panic in real time with everyone else while watching all the games. Thank goodness I don't have much to do this weekend.
My schedule is so light this semester: drawing, psych of consumers, intro to cultural anthropology, my independent study, and cycling! Drawing is time and assignment-intensive, but it's not taxing. My class is 16 people, none of them visual arts/art history majors -- but plenty of engineers and chem and econ majors who doodle as a hobby. Psych of consumers meets just once a week with very little homework and all the concepts are so intuitive I wonder if we actually complicate the issue by creating a class -- or an entire scientific field -- devoted to its studies. But I try to keep in mind the theme, which is that things in consumer psychology aren't always as it seems or should be, and that intuition often fails. Culanth has lots of interesting readings and videos, and the professor is so engaging. It's just an all-around enjoyable class. I like cycling, but I don't really like the class anymore. Lately the instructor has said some things that bothered me: including how she ate such-and-such and needed to burn plenty of calories that day, talking about exercise as a means to achieve weight loss. She has a shape-magazine style of favoring terms such as "toning," and encouraging the class to use low-weight-high-rep when we venture off the bike into resistance training (which I wish she wouldn't do to begin with). I don't think I will take this again next semestr. Independent study entails going into the lab 10-15hrs a week and learning techniques/doing odd jobs around the lab. No exams, just a 20-page paper at the end of the semester. If I'm ever going to make dean's list with distinction, this would probably be my best shot. I can't wait to pick classes for next semester.
ON RUNNING! It's a gorgeous high of 55 today, and if I can peel myself from watching bball games I'll go run on the wa-duke trail (where my 5k is going to be held!) but if not, no biggie; the maryland-memphis game is important ;p
Twitter is fueling my basketball addiction. I can now wallow/gloat/panic in real time with everyone else while watching all the games. Thank goodness I don't have much to do this weekend.
My schedule is so light this semester: drawing, psych of consumers, intro to cultural anthropology, my independent study, and cycling! Drawing is time and assignment-intensive, but it's not taxing. My class is 16 people, none of them visual arts/art history majors -- but plenty of engineers and chem and econ majors who doodle as a hobby. Psych of consumers meets just once a week with very little homework and all the concepts are so intuitive I wonder if we actually complicate the issue by creating a class -- or an entire scientific field -- devoted to its studies. But I try to keep in mind the theme, which is that things in consumer psychology aren't always as it seems or should be, and that intuition often fails. Culanth has lots of interesting readings and videos, and the professor is so engaging. It's just an all-around enjoyable class. I like cycling, but I don't really like the class anymore. Lately the instructor has said some things that bothered me: including how she ate such-and-such and needed to burn plenty of calories that day, talking about exercise as a means to achieve weight loss. She has a shape-magazine style of favoring terms such as "toning," and encouraging the class to use low-weight-high-rep when we venture off the bike into resistance training (which I wish she wouldn't do to begin with). I don't think I will take this again next semestr. Independent study entails going into the lab 10-15hrs a week and learning techniques/doing odd jobs around the lab. No exams, just a 20-page paper at the end of the semester. If I'm ever going to make dean's list with distinction, this would probably be my best shot. I can't wait to pick classes for next semester.
ON RUNNING! It's a gorgeous high of 55 today, and if I can peel myself from watching bball games I'll go run on the wa-duke trail (where my 5k is going to be held!) but if not, no biggie; the maryland-memphis game is important ;p