OMG! It's blooming!
I managed to recover my crabapple tree a few weeks ago (Joy!), and now it's starting to bloom! The flowers smell sooo nice! My tree is soooo much better than a puppy dog.
I'm starting the second week of classes. Things are going well.
I had a bit of trouble over registering for my chinese class, but hopefully my registration issue are over. This time I actually saw the Registrar personnel register me into the class. I had to jump through a number of hoops to get into that class. Now all I need to do is pass with flying colour, which is harder than it sounds. I'm not too worried about reading and writing; It's the oral component that troubles me. Contrary to what my teacher says English does have tones. It's just that certain words and sounds are always pronounced the same way. Try saying "why". In English it's spoken with a downward tone. It's hard to say it with a flat tone. Enough whining.
My economics classes are fun. One Prof is married to a mathematician (Macro), I'm guessing a math prof at the university, and the other speaks with a light spanish accent (Mirco). The latter is an economic historian! I read a book about the history of trade over the summer that made me very excited about economic historians. I think irrationally so.
The math class seems like it will be fairly easy. It's still Math Math, taught by a pure mathematician, but very simple and straightforward. I won't completely judge it yet since we're still on review. It may get much hard later. (For those who care: Single variable calculus-Linear Algebra-Multivariable calculus-Optimization, shouldn't be too bad. Nothing can be covered in depth, and I doubt any difficult problems will be included)
My history classes are interesting and nothing to be too concerned about. One "The comparative history of Empires" and the other is "Modern intellectual thought." I'm only register in the first class, so I only have to do the work for the first class. The other class I just sit in on with Becky. We haven't decided yet whether to attempt to join one of the discussion group. Maybe we'll just create one of our own.
Oh yeah, Becky started orientation today at work. Work should slow her progress through Spore.
I'm starting the second week of classes. Things are going well.
I had a bit of trouble over registering for my chinese class, but hopefully my registration issue are over. This time I actually saw the Registrar personnel register me into the class. I had to jump through a number of hoops to get into that class. Now all I need to do is pass with flying colour, which is harder than it sounds. I'm not too worried about reading and writing; It's the oral component that troubles me. Contrary to what my teacher says English does have tones. It's just that certain words and sounds are always pronounced the same way. Try saying "why". In English it's spoken with a downward tone. It's hard to say it with a flat tone. Enough whining.
My economics classes are fun. One Prof is married to a mathematician (Macro), I'm guessing a math prof at the university, and the other speaks with a light spanish accent (Mirco). The latter is an economic historian! I read a book about the history of trade over the summer that made me very excited about economic historians. I think irrationally so.
The math class seems like it will be fairly easy. It's still Math Math, taught by a pure mathematician, but very simple and straightforward. I won't completely judge it yet since we're still on review. It may get much hard later. (For those who care: Single variable calculus-Linear Algebra-Multivariable calculus-Optimization, shouldn't be too bad. Nothing can be covered in depth, and I doubt any difficult problems will be included)
My history classes are interesting and nothing to be too concerned about. One "The comparative history of Empires" and the other is "Modern intellectual thought." I'm only register in the first class, so I only have to do the work for the first class. The other class I just sit in on with Becky. We haven't decided yet whether to attempt to join one of the discussion group. Maybe we'll just create one of our own.
Oh yeah, Becky started orientation today at work. Work should slow her progress through Spore.