Shakespeare should be more fun than this.
Well, I'm writing this from within my Shakespeare class, which should say something about how much it's keeping my attention. At first glance, I thought that the professor would be a pretty interesting guy. At first glance, he vaguely reminded me of Mr. McClure -- obviously a good thing. But this second real lecture has been so uninformative that I'm rather annoyed. Especially because Shakespeare is so great and it shouldn't be butchered. Not that it's being butchered yet, but still...I think it could be a lot better. I thought that it was going to be a lot better. Oh well, I'm not dropping the class -- it's what I need for the English major, and while he's no Goldsmith, he at least speaks in occasionally understood English. I'll deal because I have to.
Vikram Chandra, my creative writing teacher, is growing on me a bit. At first I didn't really like him because he didn't seem very personal, the total opposite of his wife, who was my teacher last semester. But now I know he's at least ridiculously smart, even if not fully personable still. I think things will go okay in that class, too, though I'm not quite comfortable with it all yet.
Russian history is awesome. The professor is a really great lecturer, provided that you're close enough to the front of he room to hear him. And it helps that Russia is just that awesome and interesting. There's a freakish amount of reading -- an 800 page reader, plus two textbooks and two novels -- but I know I'll be able to get it done.
My early English class is actually a lot better than I'd thought it would be. Chaucer's not at all hard to read, and my GSI is the same one I had for English last semester, and she likes me and I suppose I like her as well. Prof. Adelman is interesting so far...
The seminar's turing out well...I haven't really done much with it yet, but I'm looking forward to it still. We get to see a lot of stuff that's in the archives at the Bancroft library, and we have good access to the collections. They've got the first four Shakespeare folios!
...really, I'm just bored bored bored of this class, but I need to tell myself it's necessary, and if nothing else, by the end of the semester, I'll have read a lot more Shakespeare plays.
Vikram Chandra, my creative writing teacher, is growing on me a bit. At first I didn't really like him because he didn't seem very personal, the total opposite of his wife, who was my teacher last semester. But now I know he's at least ridiculously smart, even if not fully personable still. I think things will go okay in that class, too, though I'm not quite comfortable with it all yet.
Russian history is awesome. The professor is a really great lecturer, provided that you're close enough to the front of he room to hear him. And it helps that Russia is just that awesome and interesting. There's a freakish amount of reading -- an 800 page reader, plus two textbooks and two novels -- but I know I'll be able to get it done.
My early English class is actually a lot better than I'd thought it would be. Chaucer's not at all hard to read, and my GSI is the same one I had for English last semester, and she likes me and I suppose I like her as well. Prof. Adelman is interesting so far...
The seminar's turing out well...I haven't really done much with it yet, but I'm looking forward to it still. We get to see a lot of stuff that's in the archives at the Bancroft library, and we have good access to the collections. They've got the first four Shakespeare folios!
...really, I'm just bored bored bored of this class, but I need to tell myself it's necessary, and if nothing else, by the end of the semester, I'll have read a lot more Shakespeare plays.