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My first quarter at UC Santa Cruz officially began today!
I'm going to geek out over scheduling and classes now. For the record, I'm a Language Studies major, which means I go halfsies with linguistics and studying a language. I chose Spanish.
I experienced troubles with my scheduling over the summer. Transfers like myself got the really short end of the stick, because everyone--I mean everyone--got to register before us. Luckily, the linguistics department held spots for some of us with related majors, and I was able to get into Semantics with ease...and that was pretty much it. I deliberated for a couple of weeks after my orientation and finally landed a class called Central American Peoples (which I am actually very interested in, as I've always found Central and South America fascinating) and signed myself up for an anthropology class about Asia. I pretty much need to take Spanish this semester, but nothing was open ever, so I figured I could knock some miscellaneous units out of the way and have cool classes. And then, yesterday afternoon, a Spanish class opened up for the exact same time slot as the Asia class. I jumped on it, and I am now very, very pleased with my schedule. I go Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 11am to 5pm, basically, with a break from 12 to 2.
I enjoyed my first day immensely. This semantics class is the first linguistics course I've ever taken, and I know the introduction is all kiddie stuff but we got to play with grammar and then try to explain it and figure out why these things work and why other things don't and it made my brain wonderfully twisty! It helps that my professor is a huge geek with a vocabulary to match. Endearing.
Being surrounded by Spanish was refreshing. I was afraid that I would be lagging, since I haven't taken it in two years, but I'm happy to say I understood 100% of what happened in class and haven't completely lost all of my grammatical structure or my vocabulary. Yay!
In other news, my jaws and teeth are calming down about the sudden kidnapping of four members of their community. Thank god. I won't go to great pains to describe the past week, but I hope it's sufficient to say that it royally sucked, and I now know that I will never become addicted to Vicodin because it screws with my body in ways I hate.
Lastly, everyone should check out the concept art of Hethe Srodawa, which I found via StumbleUpon. The scenery is magnificently eye catching, and most of the characters have a fun punky/sci fi sort of feel that I find highly enjoyable. You know you want to click!
I'm going to geek out over scheduling and classes now. For the record, I'm a Language Studies major, which means I go halfsies with linguistics and studying a language. I chose Spanish.
I experienced troubles with my scheduling over the summer. Transfers like myself got the really short end of the stick, because everyone--I mean everyone--got to register before us. Luckily, the linguistics department held spots for some of us with related majors, and I was able to get into Semantics with ease...and that was pretty much it. I deliberated for a couple of weeks after my orientation and finally landed a class called Central American Peoples (which I am actually very interested in, as I've always found Central and South America fascinating) and signed myself up for an anthropology class about Asia. I pretty much need to take Spanish this semester, but nothing was open ever, so I figured I could knock some miscellaneous units out of the way and have cool classes. And then, yesterday afternoon, a Spanish class opened up for the exact same time slot as the Asia class. I jumped on it, and I am now very, very pleased with my schedule. I go Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 11am to 5pm, basically, with a break from 12 to 2.
I enjoyed my first day immensely. This semantics class is the first linguistics course I've ever taken, and I know the introduction is all kiddie stuff but we got to play with grammar and then try to explain it and figure out why these things work and why other things don't and it made my brain wonderfully twisty! It helps that my professor is a huge geek with a vocabulary to match. Endearing.
Being surrounded by Spanish was refreshing. I was afraid that I would be lagging, since I haven't taken it in two years, but I'm happy to say I understood 100% of what happened in class and haven't completely lost all of my grammatical structure or my vocabulary. Yay!
In other news, my jaws and teeth are calming down about the sudden kidnapping of four members of their community. Thank god. I won't go to great pains to describe the past week, but I hope it's sufficient to say that it royally sucked, and I now know that I will never become addicted to Vicodin because it screws with my body in ways I hate.
Lastly, everyone should check out the concept art of Hethe Srodawa, which I found via StumbleUpon. The scenery is magnificently eye catching, and most of the characters have a fun punky/sci fi sort of feel that I find highly enjoyable. You know you want to click!