It isn't a rocky relationship.
This was the first week of my spring semester. Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays my first class isn't until 9, which a nice change, since I've had all 8 AM classes for the past two semesters. So far I've gotten up at the same time though, 6:30, because that's when my roommate gets up. We have breakfast together, she goes off to class, and I go back to the room and get some cartoon watching work done for about an hour. First class is Advanced Creative Writing, which is going to be all short plays. I've never seriously written a play before, so I'm a little daunted, but I think it'll be good for me, since I want to write scripts for a living. Then I have a break for an hour before Survey of American Literature. This is the class I had to order nine books for, and it'll be a tremendous amount of reading. But he doesn't assign readings for specific days, just a section of pages to have done each week. We starting with Edgar Allen Poe, and we have to read about forty Emily Dickinson poems every week all semester. This class looks pretty intensive, but I do want to learn more about American lit, so I can see myself getting a lot out of it by the end.
Tuesdays and Thursdays I have another 8:00 class. It's regular World Lit II, but I'll be doing an extra paper so it'll be counted as an honors class. We're starting with Hamlet, which I've never actually read before but always felt like I should. There's a couple papers we have to write for the class, but I don't know what the topics are yet. Unless I already have to write a paper on Hamlet, I might do my honors paper on one of the many film adaptations the story's been through. (I don't think it's until April, but my school's movie theater is showing the David Tennant and Patrick Stewart version of Hamlet. So that'll be a must-see for me.) I work in the library for a few hours after that, and then it's my only non-English class, Survey of the Professional Media. I've always enjoyed learning about media studies, so this seems like a fun class. We'll be doing a lot with the internet, and we all have to set up a Twitter and a Wordpress blog. I already have this journal, and my Tumblr, and the cartoon blog I'm starting (more on that in another post), but I want to make this new one more than just a place for homework. After that class is Intro to Technical and Professional Writing, which is full of other Creative Writing majors and classmates and co-workers from the library. We already have a great rapport with each other -- we went ten minutes over the hour and fifteen the class already lasts, just doing introductions. The subjects themselves are pretty standard business skills, letters, resumes, oral reports and so on, practical things I know I'll need in the future. The professor says that the assignments from that class have helped students build business connections and land jobs and internships, which is pretty fantastic.
It's shaping up to be a really busy semester, but I also think I'll be learning a lot of relevant things from these classes. I just hope I can still see that when I'm in class until 4 and then I have 100 pages of reading and a paper to do that night.
Tuesdays and Thursdays I have another 8:00 class. It's regular World Lit II, but I'll be doing an extra paper so it'll be counted as an honors class. We're starting with Hamlet, which I've never actually read before but always felt like I should. There's a couple papers we have to write for the class, but I don't know what the topics are yet. Unless I already have to write a paper on Hamlet, I might do my honors paper on one of the many film adaptations the story's been through. (I don't think it's until April, but my school's movie theater is showing the David Tennant and Patrick Stewart version of Hamlet. So that'll be a must-see for me.) I work in the library for a few hours after that, and then it's my only non-English class, Survey of the Professional Media. I've always enjoyed learning about media studies, so this seems like a fun class. We'll be doing a lot with the internet, and we all have to set up a Twitter and a Wordpress blog. I already have this journal, and my Tumblr, and the cartoon blog I'm starting (more on that in another post), but I want to make this new one more than just a place for homework. After that class is Intro to Technical and Professional Writing, which is full of other Creative Writing majors and classmates and co-workers from the library. We already have a great rapport with each other -- we went ten minutes over the hour and fifteen the class already lasts, just doing introductions. The subjects themselves are pretty standard business skills, letters, resumes, oral reports and so on, practical things I know I'll need in the future. The professor says that the assignments from that class have helped students build business connections and land jobs and internships, which is pretty fantastic.
It's shaping up to be a really busy semester, but I also think I'll be learning a lot of relevant things from these classes. I just hope I can still see that when I'm in class until 4 and then I have 100 pages of reading and a paper to do that night.