Spring 2008 classes - Day 2
12:00-12:50 - Statistics of Geography
I imagine this one will be about as dull as I thought it was going to be. However, it is a required course, and I since the teacher is the same one I had for my Environmental Geography class last semester, I'm not too worried about things yet. Half way into the semester that might change, but for now, I mostly just have to focus on keeping up with the assignments not zoning out during the lectures.
2:00-4:50 - Climate: Past, Present, and Future
This is the one class I was *really* looking forward to taking this semester. It's a field course taught by another teacher I had last semester, this one whom I really liked. We'll actually be going out into the field twice this semester - the first one in mid-February in which we'll be taking sediment samples from the bottom of a lake bed, and the second one just before Spring Break where we'll do the tree ring measurements and what not. And the lecture stuff also sounds really interesting, so I don't think I'm going to be disappointed.
6:30-9:00 - Geography as a Career (Writing Focus)
Even though I'm pretty sure the material we cover is going to be pretty dull and tedious (basically it's teaching you how to write papers), I was pleasantly surprised by the teacher herself. I've never had her before, but she seems kinda... crazy in good way? She spent an hour introducing herself and showing us pictures of some of the field trips she's taken her students on, as well as talking about her family and going off into random tangents that always make things more interesting. Then we spent an additional hour playing a "get to know your fellow classmates" kind of game in which we wrote down some of our info on a piece of paper (like name, major, home town, that kind of thing) and ended up exchanging the pages (alphabetically, no less) and introducing the person in front of us, tossing in random questions here and there about the person we were introducing. It got a bit confusing toward the end, but hey, it passed the time. Then we spent all of 15-20 minutes going over the syllabus before she let us out forty five minutes early. I am not complaining.
I imagine this one will be about as dull as I thought it was going to be. However, it is a required course, and I since the teacher is the same one I had for my Environmental Geography class last semester, I'm not too worried about things yet. Half way into the semester that might change, but for now, I mostly just have to focus on keeping up with the assignments not zoning out during the lectures.
2:00-4:50 - Climate: Past, Present, and Future
This is the one class I was *really* looking forward to taking this semester. It's a field course taught by another teacher I had last semester, this one whom I really liked. We'll actually be going out into the field twice this semester - the first one in mid-February in which we'll be taking sediment samples from the bottom of a lake bed, and the second one just before Spring Break where we'll do the tree ring measurements and what not. And the lecture stuff also sounds really interesting, so I don't think I'm going to be disappointed.
6:30-9:00 - Geography as a Career (Writing Focus)
Even though I'm pretty sure the material we cover is going to be pretty dull and tedious (basically it's teaching you how to write papers), I was pleasantly surprised by the teacher herself. I've never had her before, but she seems kinda... crazy in good way? She spent an hour introducing herself and showing us pictures of some of the field trips she's taken her students on, as well as talking about her family and going off into random tangents that always make things more interesting. Then we spent an additional hour playing a "get to know your fellow classmates" kind of game in which we wrote down some of our info on a piece of paper (like name, major, home town, that kind of thing) and ended up exchanging the pages (alphabetically, no less) and introducing the person in front of us, tossing in random questions here and there about the person we were introducing. It got a bit confusing toward the end, but hey, it passed the time. Then we spent all of 15-20 minutes going over the syllabus before she let us out forty five minutes early. I am not complaining.