rundown (& more) of week 1
whew! first week of classes is finally over! the following is stuff that's happened this week.
- precalc: it's the almost daily dose of math that i'll have to endure at 9 in the morning. so far it's pretty easy because we've been reviewing algebra but i expect it'll kick into high gear soon enough and i'll have to ask the calc students from the 8am class to put me out of my misery. i'm kind of pissed that i didn't take this class last year. now i'm behind with the calc sequence. :( broges seems like a really good teacher. i'll look into taking her for calc.
- french: yes! we're reviewing everything from the beginning (french 111, 112, 203). i'm surprised at everything i've forgotten. i found out that i still can't tell if a noun is masculine or feminine. i guess it didn't help that je n'étudie pas pendant les vacances. jones is an interesting teacher. he gave us some really interesting and random vocab words. i definitely like that he speaks more english to us than garrett did. if garrett spoke english to us, which he rarely did, he would then tell us to answer in french, pretending that he didn't understand english. i'm not saying that garrett was a bad teacher, just that we weren't, or at least i wasn't, at that fluency/comprehension level.
- psci: it's going to be a very interesting class! law, politics & environment, oh my! kimerling seems very knowledgeable but she does speak a bit too fast for notetaking. in addition, packets #1 and 2 look quite intimidating! i'm excited that i'll be learning so much from this class!!
- geo: lab was kind of annoying. it felt like i was back in geo 101 again, helpless and dumb. i've learned that i still can't properly identify rocks, in this case, sedimentary rocks. we had a sub, pekar's grad student, who didn't have the answers so he wasn't much help. that is, he provided guidance but he couldn't give us concrete answers. so now labs are on tuesday and lectures on thursday. pekar's work seems impressive and he seems like a nice guy and everything. however, i think he freaked me out with the whole "no multiple choice" tests. basically, it'll be short-short, short, and long answer questions. according to him, a monkey could take a multiple choice test. :( the lighting in SB D135 sucks; it's ruining my vision!
- journ: drachlis works for newsday, a newspaper that i'm not too fond of reader. aside from that, he seems very likable and fair. it's another 9am class but it meets only once a week. that means the class is 3 hours long. it's hardly a boring class but i'm not good at sitting and paying attention for that long. i'm also not too excited about having to read newspapers every day. i tried to read every article in the "a" section of the new york times and did not get through it at all. normally i wouldn't bother but he's going to quiz us on current events every other week. oh boy.
- qcec: I AM SO EXCITED! i'm trying to find things to do this semester and i just get so excited thinking about plans. i'm kind of worried whether i'll enough time to devote to the club but i'll see what happens and try to make it work out.
- nypirg: there's a meeting this monday! i have no idea what i'll be doing and when i'll be doing that stuff.
- golden key: grrrr. i tried to contact them about the literacy project but still have not heard from them. i wonder if it's too early??
- scholarships: i need to work on obtaining letters of recommendation. i keep forgetting. :(
- piano: i. must. practice. more!
http://hermione-jenz.livejournal.com/
- precalc: it's the almost daily dose of math that i'll have to endure at 9 in the morning. so far it's pretty easy because we've been reviewing algebra but i expect it'll kick into high gear soon enough and i'll have to ask the calc students from the 8am class to put me out of my misery. i'm kind of pissed that i didn't take this class last year. now i'm behind with the calc sequence. :( broges seems like a really good teacher. i'll look into taking her for calc.
- french: yes! we're reviewing everything from the beginning (french 111, 112, 203). i'm surprised at everything i've forgotten. i found out that i still can't tell if a noun is masculine or feminine. i guess it didn't help that je n'étudie pas pendant les vacances. jones is an interesting teacher. he gave us some really interesting and random vocab words. i definitely like that he speaks more english to us than garrett did. if garrett spoke english to us, which he rarely did, he would then tell us to answer in french, pretending that he didn't understand english. i'm not saying that garrett was a bad teacher, just that we weren't, or at least i wasn't, at that fluency/comprehension level.
- psci: it's going to be a very interesting class! law, politics & environment, oh my! kimerling seems very knowledgeable but she does speak a bit too fast for notetaking. in addition, packets #1 and 2 look quite intimidating! i'm excited that i'll be learning so much from this class!!
- geo: lab was kind of annoying. it felt like i was back in geo 101 again, helpless and dumb. i've learned that i still can't properly identify rocks, in this case, sedimentary rocks. we had a sub, pekar's grad student, who didn't have the answers so he wasn't much help. that is, he provided guidance but he couldn't give us concrete answers. so now labs are on tuesday and lectures on thursday. pekar's work seems impressive and he seems like a nice guy and everything. however, i think he freaked me out with the whole "no multiple choice" tests. basically, it'll be short-short, short, and long answer questions. according to him, a monkey could take a multiple choice test. :( the lighting in SB D135 sucks; it's ruining my vision!
- journ: drachlis works for newsday, a newspaper that i'm not too fond of reader. aside from that, he seems very likable and fair. it's another 9am class but it meets only once a week. that means the class is 3 hours long. it's hardly a boring class but i'm not good at sitting and paying attention for that long. i'm also not too excited about having to read newspapers every day. i tried to read every article in the "a" section of the new york times and did not get through it at all. normally i wouldn't bother but he's going to quiz us on current events every other week. oh boy.
- qcec: I AM SO EXCITED! i'm trying to find things to do this semester and i just get so excited thinking about plans. i'm kind of worried whether i'll enough time to devote to the club but i'll see what happens and try to make it work out.
- nypirg: there's a meeting this monday! i have no idea what i'll be doing and when i'll be doing that stuff.
- golden key: grrrr. i tried to contact them about the literacy project but still have not heard from them. i wonder if it's too early??
- scholarships: i need to work on obtaining letters of recommendation. i keep forgetting. :(
- piano: i. must. practice. more!
http://hermione-jenz.livejournal.com/