Oro?
So i have been feeling wonderfully at home here. My quite week of reading and bird watching with the occasional long converstaion about Australia vs the United States has been wonderful. But i couldn't wait to get to my classes! not just because i an a study bum, but because i love the environment. i love being surronded by people listein to a expert speak or of disscussing some actual subject with a people who are both my peers and very differnt from me.
the other American bio student and I had a class togeather and we met to go find it. After considerable confusion we arrived in a room of about fourty people and settled in awaiting the professor. There was a distressed man talking to an asertive old woman in the front of the class. it came out that the room had been double booked for that time! so he called for all people in evolution and biogeography to follow him. I got up. as did six other people. only six...
we went to another room and he started his welcome lecture... to the seven of us...the seven people in the class...
I havent ever had a class with less that twenty and wasnt sure what to do... it was the lab group for the class, but there is only one lab for it. Only seven people are enrolled in it.
to my next class i am rathe early. One woman sits organizing her things while two professors talk in the front. four more people show up, and the class is complete...
i think i am going to miss massive lecture halls. even in a group of 20 you find a little sub-group to join you but how do you do that when both your classes togeather just make a bakers dozen?!
I can't say it a bad thing but this has been the most desturbing differance here... well that and both my classes are mostly female, just me and one other guy in either. yes, i'm a guy. I sort of wanted to drop the aborignal studies because it was sounding to Opra for me... but the subject matter is just so interesting...
This is a small school, about 1,300 students, includeing graduate and vocational programme, so i am down about 20,000 undergrad kids. i didnt realize what that ment till now.
other than that I shall be rooming with Mabel next year and have alerted the residence hall people to my interest so I'll be back in Cypress next fall!
until then though; Rachel's Aussie Adventure continues!
the other American bio student and I had a class togeather and we met to go find it. After considerable confusion we arrived in a room of about fourty people and settled in awaiting the professor. There was a distressed man talking to an asertive old woman in the front of the class. it came out that the room had been double booked for that time! so he called for all people in evolution and biogeography to follow him. I got up. as did six other people. only six...
we went to another room and he started his welcome lecture... to the seven of us...the seven people in the class...
I havent ever had a class with less that twenty and wasnt sure what to do... it was the lab group for the class, but there is only one lab for it. Only seven people are enrolled in it.
to my next class i am rathe early. One woman sits organizing her things while two professors talk in the front. four more people show up, and the class is complete...
i think i am going to miss massive lecture halls. even in a group of 20 you find a little sub-group to join you but how do you do that when both your classes togeather just make a bakers dozen?!
I can't say it a bad thing but this has been the most desturbing differance here... well that and both my classes are mostly female, just me and one other guy in either. yes, i'm a guy. I sort of wanted to drop the aborignal studies because it was sounding to Opra for me... but the subject matter is just so interesting...
This is a small school, about 1,300 students, includeing graduate and vocational programme, so i am down about 20,000 undergrad kids. i didnt realize what that ment till now.
other than that I shall be rooming with Mabel next year and have alerted the residence hall people to my interest so I'll be back in Cypress next fall!
until then though; Rachel's Aussie Adventure continues!