A Story of Pretty Foreigners and a First Week of Classes
Because Allie and I are attempting to post our classes again? I think that was the plan, so here goes nothing.
So, my week started on Tuesday because of the holiday and just the general fact that I do not have Monday classes this semester. My week started at 8:30 am (boooooooooooooooo!) In the lovely class of Kin 110. What is this you may ask? Well, it is a nutritions class. What does this mean? It means that at least once a week for the rest of this semester I'm going to being very conscious of what I'm eating. On the plus side, she seems like a very cheery person, and very approachable. She was very diligent in pointing out that this is a SCIENCE course, and thus I'll have to learn sciency things. I hate to be smug (who am I kidding really?) but I'm pretty sure that's why I'm taking it as a Breadth-Science. I NEED it, and all my other choices are pretty much guaranteed to be harder, soooooooooooooo, this is the class I'm taking. Oh! And she's definitely Italian XD When she tells you the story of grandmothers coming up to you and saying "Child! You're too skinny! Mangia! Mangia!" You can tell XD It also helps that my room mate is Italian and enjoys slipping Italian into her speech because she's more Olive Garden Italian. Over all an enjoyable 2 hour lecture in the morning. I also made friends in the class right away. I'll need to exploit them come exam time ;P Less than pleasant side is that I can't find the syllabus online and thus can't find the reading list...
Next is...history? Yes! History on Wednesday! You all know why I took this XD Again, a course I needed as a Breadth-Humanities. Again, a prof warning that the course would be a lot of hard work and that most of us would fail the first quiz and then bounce back in the next quiz. I would like to point out that it's a first year course, and that I'm now somewhere between year 3 and 4 (difficult matter of actual years versus number of credits I currently have), so I think part of his failing students problem may be that several of them are still getting out of the illusion that they can just breeze by school without reading anything (I was under that same illusion in the first semester, and boy did I learn my lesson). Either way, he kind of reminds me of a really hyper rodent XD He's certainly cute like a ferret or a lemur >w< I think he knows he has a lot of material to cover (WORLD history) and that a lot of history is boring (this is why we have Hetalia), so he makes it exciting by being excited himself. It worked for my Physics teacher in high school, and I think it's going to work out well for him too ^^ I've also made a few friends in this class~ Holly's pretty cool. She's a mature student with 3 teenage daughters, and a photography hobby like myself C: That's what got us talking in our tutorial. The tutorial is its usual unfortunate self in which no one talks. I can already tell that unless our TA has a strategy to get people talking, it's going to be a lot of me saying things, and a lot of Holly asking things. Hopefully they prove me wrong.
After that was Health Sciences...which one was that?...Let me grab the notes I wrote before the inevitable happened...First I would like to say that I am like a reptile, in the fact that when I'm somewhere particularly cold, I get tired. That being said, the class was exceptionally chilly. In other words, 20 minutes in, my head hit the desk and I was out like a light XD My friend Michaela is in the class with me though, and she says I was only out for 30 minutes any, and then the class ended SUPER EARLY! And I also didn't miss a lot. Good thing about this class though is that she provides the text book to us online! Yay less money to spend~ It looks like a lot of what we're learning is statistics...AGAIN. It sucks, but it's necessary. Lucky part is that she hates conventional teaching methods, and as a young prof, she's going to try her hardest to fight the status quo, and rather than lecture us, she wants us to interact and LEARN! That'll be fun if the class room temperature allows me to participate XD Less than lucky though is the size of the classroom. It's small...I'm loud...I talk a lot...EVERYONE can hear me XD Maybe it's best that I nodded off.
This actually brings us to our next topic...kinda! Basically, my next prof had the same classroom the next day (clearly after someone had turned up the heat~) and I question if she was even wearing a microphone. She has a very clear and loud voice, which will be handy in the small class. I described her in my notes as seeming cool and laid back. Soooo, she's probably the cool aunty figure...by my standards of aunties, I should probably consider her normal actually XD My aunts have always been cool...and drunk most of the time I see them XD Same with my uncles, which is why I had to explain to my friend the other day that my family is not made up of alcoholics; I just happen to only see them during the holidays when they're kicking back, and enjoying a drink or five with the family. Hmmm, non-cumulative final looks good. I have a group project/debate to work on, and weekly reading assignments I should probably get started on. I should also probably find the readings...I think I downloaded them somewhere. I'll get on that ummmmm, tomorrow? Yeah, that sounds good ^^ Another professor that seems to hate the normal ways of teaching, and would rather we learn something (even if it's bound to be REALLY dry material...seriously, it's The Canadian Health System...Guess I'd better learn it now rather than later...)
Over all, my classes look like fun, and the professors all sound like people I'll get along well with (I enjoy the idea of fighting convention). It'll be tough, but I managed to get through a semester of 4 third year courses last semester, so hopefully 2 first year courses, and 2 third year courses should be managable. I just have to keep on top of things! I can work hard! I know I can! Bonus this semester is that I have mondays off, so I get 3 opening shifts each week! That's 3 ~6 hour shifts of mostly sitting on my ass, and hopefully studying/reading/writing. I can live with a paycheque made up of 18 hours per week. Oh, and that I worked on a holiday means I got time and a half, and that rather than sign out and sign back in an hour later, I just worked through my break this week, which means I got another hour or so of time and a half for my souble shift this week. I have another one of those next week, so more money. That's good, because in order to do my assignment for Kin, I'll need the disk that comes with the book, so there goes $150 :"C Eh, it's a nutrition book, so it'll probably be handy for a career in health anyway.
What else?
Oh! I've been welcomed with reluctant arms to the 21st century. I now have a cell phone. It's a fancy new-fangled thing because stores are lame and refuse to sell me something that isn't either super crappy or super fancy. It pleases my mother that she can talk to me though, so I won't complain tooooooo much. Forget it frequently? Yes. Ignore it? Probably. Leave it behind when I can get away with it? Oh HELLZ yeah! But I have it, so that's one less thing people can annoy me about.
I also got my post card from Kestrad!~ I hope you get mine too! It was super awesome, and I have to say you have super neat hand writing!
Now to sleep, and set the alarm in a way that doesn't give me a heart attack at 6 am. Nighty night!
~Katie (finished a season of DW in a week when the first 4 took her over a year to fight tooth and nail through ;P)
So, my week started on Tuesday because of the holiday and just the general fact that I do not have Monday classes this semester. My week started at 8:30 am (boooooooooooooooo!) In the lovely class of Kin 110. What is this you may ask? Well, it is a nutritions class. What does this mean? It means that at least once a week for the rest of this semester I'm going to being very conscious of what I'm eating. On the plus side, she seems like a very cheery person, and very approachable. She was very diligent in pointing out that this is a SCIENCE course, and thus I'll have to learn sciency things. I hate to be smug (who am I kidding really?) but I'm pretty sure that's why I'm taking it as a Breadth-Science. I NEED it, and all my other choices are pretty much guaranteed to be harder, soooooooooooooo, this is the class I'm taking. Oh! And she's definitely Italian XD When she tells you the story of grandmothers coming up to you and saying "Child! You're too skinny! Mangia! Mangia!" You can tell XD It also helps that my room mate is Italian and enjoys slipping Italian into her speech because she's more Olive Garden Italian. Over all an enjoyable 2 hour lecture in the morning. I also made friends in the class right away. I'll need to exploit them come exam time ;P Less than pleasant side is that I can't find the syllabus online and thus can't find the reading list...
Next is...history? Yes! History on Wednesday! You all know why I took this XD Again, a course I needed as a Breadth-Humanities. Again, a prof warning that the course would be a lot of hard work and that most of us would fail the first quiz and then bounce back in the next quiz. I would like to point out that it's a first year course, and that I'm now somewhere between year 3 and 4 (difficult matter of actual years versus number of credits I currently have), so I think part of his failing students problem may be that several of them are still getting out of the illusion that they can just breeze by school without reading anything (I was under that same illusion in the first semester, and boy did I learn my lesson). Either way, he kind of reminds me of a really hyper rodent XD He's certainly cute like a ferret or a lemur >w< I think he knows he has a lot of material to cover (WORLD history) and that a lot of history is boring (this is why we have Hetalia), so he makes it exciting by being excited himself. It worked for my Physics teacher in high school, and I think it's going to work out well for him too ^^ I've also made a few friends in this class~ Holly's pretty cool. She's a mature student with 3 teenage daughters, and a photography hobby like myself C: That's what got us talking in our tutorial. The tutorial is its usual unfortunate self in which no one talks. I can already tell that unless our TA has a strategy to get people talking, it's going to be a lot of me saying things, and a lot of Holly asking things. Hopefully they prove me wrong.
After that was Health Sciences...which one was that?...Let me grab the notes I wrote before the inevitable happened...First I would like to say that I am like a reptile, in the fact that when I'm somewhere particularly cold, I get tired. That being said, the class was exceptionally chilly. In other words, 20 minutes in, my head hit the desk and I was out like a light XD My friend Michaela is in the class with me though, and she says I was only out for 30 minutes any, and then the class ended SUPER EARLY! And I also didn't miss a lot. Good thing about this class though is that she provides the text book to us online! Yay less money to spend~ It looks like a lot of what we're learning is statistics...AGAIN. It sucks, but it's necessary. Lucky part is that she hates conventional teaching methods, and as a young prof, she's going to try her hardest to fight the status quo, and rather than lecture us, she wants us to interact and LEARN! That'll be fun if the class room temperature allows me to participate XD Less than lucky though is the size of the classroom. It's small...I'm loud...I talk a lot...EVERYONE can hear me XD Maybe it's best that I nodded off.
This actually brings us to our next topic...kinda! Basically, my next prof had the same classroom the next day (clearly after someone had turned up the heat~) and I question if she was even wearing a microphone. She has a very clear and loud voice, which will be handy in the small class. I described her in my notes as seeming cool and laid back. Soooo, she's probably the cool aunty figure...by my standards of aunties, I should probably consider her normal actually XD My aunts have always been cool...and drunk most of the time I see them XD Same with my uncles, which is why I had to explain to my friend the other day that my family is not made up of alcoholics; I just happen to only see them during the holidays when they're kicking back, and enjoying a drink or five with the family. Hmmm, non-cumulative final looks good. I have a group project/debate to work on, and weekly reading assignments I should probably get started on. I should also probably find the readings...I think I downloaded them somewhere. I'll get on that ummmmm, tomorrow? Yeah, that sounds good ^^ Another professor that seems to hate the normal ways of teaching, and would rather we learn something (even if it's bound to be REALLY dry material...seriously, it's The Canadian Health System...Guess I'd better learn it now rather than later...)
Over all, my classes look like fun, and the professors all sound like people I'll get along well with (I enjoy the idea of fighting convention). It'll be tough, but I managed to get through a semester of 4 third year courses last semester, so hopefully 2 first year courses, and 2 third year courses should be managable. I just have to keep on top of things! I can work hard! I know I can! Bonus this semester is that I have mondays off, so I get 3 opening shifts each week! That's 3 ~6 hour shifts of mostly sitting on my ass, and hopefully studying/reading/writing. I can live with a paycheque made up of 18 hours per week. Oh, and that I worked on a holiday means I got time and a half, and that rather than sign out and sign back in an hour later, I just worked through my break this week, which means I got another hour or so of time and a half for my souble shift this week. I have another one of those next week, so more money. That's good, because in order to do my assignment for Kin, I'll need the disk that comes with the book, so there goes $150 :"C Eh, it's a nutrition book, so it'll probably be handy for a career in health anyway.
What else?
Oh! I've been welcomed with reluctant arms to the 21st century. I now have a cell phone. It's a fancy new-fangled thing because stores are lame and refuse to sell me something that isn't either super crappy or super fancy. It pleases my mother that she can talk to me though, so I won't complain tooooooo much. Forget it frequently? Yes. Ignore it? Probably. Leave it behind when I can get away with it? Oh HELLZ yeah! But I have it, so that's one less thing people can annoy me about.
I also got my post card from Kestrad!~ I hope you get mine too! It was super awesome, and I have to say you have super neat hand writing!
Now to sleep, and set the alarm in a way that doesn't give me a heart attack at 6 am. Nighty night!
~Katie (finished a season of DW in a week when the first 4 took her over a year to fight tooth and nail through ;P)