It's time to play a little game called "What class should Ami drop?"
Ok, so when I signed up for 5 classes because I thought I needed more stress to motivate myself, why did none of you slap some sense into me?
Here's your chance to redeem yourself. An overview of my classes, followed by a poll on which class I should drop:
Modern Political Thought: Taught by the same professor as my Ancient Political Thought class last term ( you may remember him). I'm really interested in the content of this class. He's an excellent teacher and could give me a very deep understanding of the texts. But he's a very difficult grader, and the amount of reading will probably drive me absolutely bonkers. They are:
Machiavelli - The Prince
Thomas Hobbes - Leviathan
Locke - Two Treatises of Government
Rousseau - The First and Second Discourses
Marx and Engels - The Communist Manifesto
Nietzsche - On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo
... yeah.
Traditional Japan: I was really excited by this course but it seems the teacher is focusing more on historical accounts than works of the time period, which is more of what I was looking forward too. However, there is one text of Japanese literature so it wouldn't be completely analytical. He is also so far really awkward and the class is FULL of otaku. :/ Also a lot of reading - a historical text, a collection of historical essays, and an anthology of literature. It's got 5 quizzes, 2 tests, and 3 essays - one of which is a research paper. I HATE research papers. The class isn't a requirement to graduate, I just took it for the subject matter.
Intro to Psych as a Natural Science: By far would be my easiest class. Not necessary for a credit as I have plenty of Natural Sciences, but I wanted to take Psych since it seems like it's an undergraduate requirement. But I can take it anytime, and even if it's easy, it's time consuming - time I could use for the harder courses.
Peace and War: Crazy history-philes in this class. They know all these crazy facts and I don't even know who the president was during the first World War. (SHUT UP I WAS NERVOUS :( :( ) There's a HUGE book called "The Scientific Study of Peace and War" plus an even HUGER course packet I have to get somehow from Ann Arbor. We're studying really interesting stuff, and it'd be awesome to know general things about all the wars/negotiations we're going to cover just to strengthen my historical political knowledge, since I'm kind of lacking in that department. The teacher is hardcore though, and there are essay tests and a final research paper. Like I said, I hate research papers. Especially ones this formal with multiple external sources. I think I'd already have a thesis though (Why India, being such a lucrative and secure colony, was able to achieve independence relatively peacefully).
Ancient Greek II: Second semester of Greek the language. First day back and we jumped right in and oh man, I am NOT looking forward to this semester of forms and vocab, ugh. It's SO time consuming and so much memorization, but I already took the first semester, and I need at least a couple years to have a passing knowledge of the language.
OK IT'S UP TO YOU.
Poll
Um, ps. I still haven't sent half of the holiday cards I have. I ran out of stamps, and um. Wellll, yeah. I'm sorry, BUT I WILL GET THEM TO YOU SOMEDAY, SWEAR. *crosses fingers behind back*
Here's your chance to redeem yourself. An overview of my classes, followed by a poll on which class I should drop:
Modern Political Thought: Taught by the same professor as my Ancient Political Thought class last term ( you may remember him). I'm really interested in the content of this class. He's an excellent teacher and could give me a very deep understanding of the texts. But he's a very difficult grader, and the amount of reading will probably drive me absolutely bonkers. They are:
Machiavelli - The Prince
Thomas Hobbes - Leviathan
Locke - Two Treatises of Government
Rousseau - The First and Second Discourses
Marx and Engels - The Communist Manifesto
Nietzsche - On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo
... yeah.
Traditional Japan: I was really excited by this course but it seems the teacher is focusing more on historical accounts than works of the time period, which is more of what I was looking forward too. However, there is one text of Japanese literature so it wouldn't be completely analytical. He is also so far really awkward and the class is FULL of otaku. :/ Also a lot of reading - a historical text, a collection of historical essays, and an anthology of literature. It's got 5 quizzes, 2 tests, and 3 essays - one of which is a research paper. I HATE research papers. The class isn't a requirement to graduate, I just took it for the subject matter.
Intro to Psych as a Natural Science: By far would be my easiest class. Not necessary for a credit as I have plenty of Natural Sciences, but I wanted to take Psych since it seems like it's an undergraduate requirement. But I can take it anytime, and even if it's easy, it's time consuming - time I could use for the harder courses.
Peace and War: Crazy history-philes in this class. They know all these crazy facts and I don't even know who the president was during the first World War. (SHUT UP I WAS NERVOUS :( :( ) There's a HUGE book called "The Scientific Study of Peace and War" plus an even HUGER course packet I have to get somehow from Ann Arbor. We're studying really interesting stuff, and it'd be awesome to know general things about all the wars/negotiations we're going to cover just to strengthen my historical political knowledge, since I'm kind of lacking in that department. The teacher is hardcore though, and there are essay tests and a final research paper. Like I said, I hate research papers. Especially ones this formal with multiple external sources. I think I'd already have a thesis though (Why India, being such a lucrative and secure colony, was able to achieve independence relatively peacefully).
Ancient Greek II: Second semester of Greek the language. First day back and we jumped right in and oh man, I am NOT looking forward to this semester of forms and vocab, ugh. It's SO time consuming and so much memorization, but I already took the first semester, and I need at least a couple years to have a passing knowledge of the language.
OK IT'S UP TO YOU.
Poll
Um, ps. I still haven't sent half of the holiday cards I have. I ran out of stamps, and um. Wellll, yeah. I'm sorry, BUT I WILL GET THEM TO YOU SOMEDAY, SWEAR. *crosses fingers behind back*