And now for unnecessary explanation.ryanitenebraeJuly 12 2009, 19:17:10 UTC
Well, the school I'm going to is. . .kind of unusual. There are a couple of textbooks I need(a specific Introduction to Ancient Greek that was basically written for my college, Euclid's Elements, On The Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals by William Harvey, and I think a song book for Chorus, but I don't know the title. Somewhere later, I think after the first semester, I'll need a Ptolemy book and a Lavoisier book, and for textbooks, that's it for the first year.
See, St. John's is an all-required no-majors curriculum based on discussion-based literature seminars, laboratory science, math, and language. For the Freshmen year, this is all Greek based, so the math is Euclidean and then Ptolemic, we study Ancient Greek, and we read Homer, Plato, and Aristotle, amongst other things. I will need to buy a lot of books, but because I'll need a new reading assignment every 3-4 days, Amazon's pretty impractical. (There IS an awesome used bookstore in walking distance of the school, that gives a student discount for Johnnies, though, which rocks.)
All that having been said, I think I may take your advice and use it to get my Euclid or my Greek book now instead of getting them at the bookstore when I arrived as I intended.
(Oh, and speaking of Murakami, I have a couple of his books lying around that I need to read. I intend on getting to Hard-boiled Wonderland And The End of the World soon.)
See, St. John's is an all-required no-majors curriculum based on discussion-based literature seminars, laboratory science, math, and language. For the Freshmen year, this is all Greek based, so the math is Euclidean and then Ptolemic, we study Ancient Greek, and we read Homer, Plato, and Aristotle, amongst other things. I will need to buy a lot of books, but because I'll need a new reading assignment every 3-4 days, Amazon's pretty impractical. (There IS an awesome used bookstore in walking distance of the school, that gives a student discount for Johnnies, though, which rocks.)
All that having been said, I think I may take your advice and use it to get my Euclid or my Greek book now instead of getting them at the bookstore when I arrived as I intended.
(Oh, and speaking of Murakami, I have a couple of his books lying around that I need to read. I intend on getting to Hard-boiled Wonderland And The End of the World soon.)
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