winter quarter 2007: an overview of the recent future
For the third day in a row, I managed to get up at 6:30. This is good. It takes (I'm told) approx. 21 days to form a habit.
I really want to make lifestyle changes this quarter. Unlike most people, I still take the new year seriously. It is one of my last vestiges of time meaning anything. Not to say that I ignore clocks or deadlines or the calendar, but for the past few years at an expontentially increasing rate, it has felt less like "the holidays" or "summer." Time melts into itself, and one realises how fluid boundaries are. This, of course, feeds interests in history; this quarter I'm taking a course on European Intellectual History from Reformation to Enlightement. But what isthe Enlightenment? Inquiring minds want to know.
This quarter is very interesting in a lot of ways. I am currently enrolled in 3 courses and crashing a 4th (that I most likely got into). Of the 3 courses, 2 are continuation courses from last quarter; Russian V and Phonology II. The third class is being taught by a professor I have had 3 other courses with, but the subject matter (the European Intellectual History: Reformation to Enlightenment) is something that's somewhat new to me, despite having already read some of the course reading. The fourth class, which I find out about tonight, is The Crusades. That's a completely unfamiliar topic to me. To summarize, the quarter will be largely familiar, largely continuation from previous studies, but it will have some new twists to it.
Also, this is the quarter I told myself I would start prepping for Fall 2007. Why? That's when I'd be applying to graduate school (assuming that is my plan, which right now it is), and also when I'd like to write a senior thesis. I was looking at the form and it says that if I do want to write a thesis Fall 2007/Winter 2008 that it needs to be approved by April something or other. But I need to get that done. I don't want to slack on this, not the way I did on applying to college. I'm not saying that I'm entirely unhappy with UC Santa Cruz, but I definitely should done more research. But how do you break old habits?
I'm trying really hard right now to break a lot of my old habits. Okay, not that hard. Attention to detail, which is something I generally lack, is something I need to worry about more in my daily life.
Right now, though, I need to eat breakfast. Also, I feel really garlicky because of pizza I ate last night. And finally, I have been craving potatos like there's no tomorrow recently. I managed to eat some yesterday, and while yummy, I want more. Did I mention that part of the new year's goals was starting to work out? Yeah. I need to hit the gym, and soon.
The Office is on tomorrow. Highlight of the week, no doubt.
I really want to make lifestyle changes this quarter. Unlike most people, I still take the new year seriously. It is one of my last vestiges of time meaning anything. Not to say that I ignore clocks or deadlines or the calendar, but for the past few years at an expontentially increasing rate, it has felt less like "the holidays" or "summer." Time melts into itself, and one realises how fluid boundaries are. This, of course, feeds interests in history; this quarter I'm taking a course on European Intellectual History from Reformation to Enlightement. But what isthe Enlightenment? Inquiring minds want to know.
This quarter is very interesting in a lot of ways. I am currently enrolled in 3 courses and crashing a 4th (that I most likely got into). Of the 3 courses, 2 are continuation courses from last quarter; Russian V and Phonology II. The third class is being taught by a professor I have had 3 other courses with, but the subject matter (the European Intellectual History: Reformation to Enlightenment) is something that's somewhat new to me, despite having already read some of the course reading. The fourth class, which I find out about tonight, is The Crusades. That's a completely unfamiliar topic to me. To summarize, the quarter will be largely familiar, largely continuation from previous studies, but it will have some new twists to it.
Also, this is the quarter I told myself I would start prepping for Fall 2007. Why? That's when I'd be applying to graduate school (assuming that is my plan, which right now it is), and also when I'd like to write a senior thesis. I was looking at the form and it says that if I do want to write a thesis Fall 2007/Winter 2008 that it needs to be approved by April something or other. But I need to get that done. I don't want to slack on this, not the way I did on applying to college. I'm not saying that I'm entirely unhappy with UC Santa Cruz, but I definitely should done more research. But how do you break old habits?
I'm trying really hard right now to break a lot of my old habits. Okay, not that hard. Attention to detail, which is something I generally lack, is something I need to worry about more in my daily life.
Right now, though, I need to eat breakfast. Also, I feel really garlicky because of pizza I ate last night. And finally, I have been craving potatos like there's no tomorrow recently. I managed to eat some yesterday, and while yummy, I want more. Did I mention that part of the new year's goals was starting to work out? Yeah. I need to hit the gym, and soon.
The Office is on tomorrow. Highlight of the week, no doubt.