Look, look, an update!
I've had all my classes but one (Advanced Art Workshop, it's a Friday only), and so far (as far as one can tell from only having the class once) they all seem good. Rundown, in order that I had them:
Linguistics: The professor is very nice (I had her freshman year as well, for a bad class, but that wasn't her fault--it must be extremely difficult to make a freshman composition class interesting). The subject matter looks to be really interesting, but I'm intimidated by the work (presentations/project).
English as a Global Language (audit): I signed up for this a)because I like Anthropology and this was the only one that both sounded like something I might enjoy and fit my schedule, and b)one of my friends decided to take it, and I figured it would be fun to be in it with her. I didn't know anything about the professor or much about the class going in. The professor is from South Africa, has a brilliant accent, seems like a really nice guy, and is interesting. The class will mainly focus on Africa, which, seeing as they have so many languages, should be quite interesting. And the prof speaks a whole bunch of African languages (five, I think?), at least one of which is a click language and sounds awesome. It sounds like there's a lot of work, but I'm auditing, so I don't have to worry about that.
Intermediate Photography: The professor is a mixture of cool, crazy, and odd. In a good way, I think. The class should be a lot of fun. Our first assignment is to take photos at night/in the dark (long exposures, not flash), so we can learn to really push the film. I need to borrow a tripod, and then the shootin' begins.
Jujitsu: Ah, good ol' PE requirement. My only gen ed left. Was quite fun! I'm really bad at the flipping over part, but the rest was quite good. We did a bunch of stretches, falls, flips, and learned multiple ways to get out of a strangle. I need to buy some more gym clothes.
Completely unrelated: I never liked artificial sweeteners (especially since eating sweet & low plain as a kid, thinking it would taste like sugar--how wrong I was, and then there's the whole gives cancer to rats thing which is very unpleasant), but Splenda--that stuff is so neat! I've been taking packets of it from resturants. I read an article about it in Wired over a year ago, which was incredibly cool, and now I've tasted it and it does taste a lot like normal sugar. I dunno why, I just think it's really nifty.
Linguistics: The professor is very nice (I had her freshman year as well, for a bad class, but that wasn't her fault--it must be extremely difficult to make a freshman composition class interesting). The subject matter looks to be really interesting, but I'm intimidated by the work (presentations/project).
English as a Global Language (audit): I signed up for this a)because I like Anthropology and this was the only one that both sounded like something I might enjoy and fit my schedule, and b)one of my friends decided to take it, and I figured it would be fun to be in it with her. I didn't know anything about the professor or much about the class going in. The professor is from South Africa, has a brilliant accent, seems like a really nice guy, and is interesting. The class will mainly focus on Africa, which, seeing as they have so many languages, should be quite interesting. And the prof speaks a whole bunch of African languages (five, I think?), at least one of which is a click language and sounds awesome. It sounds like there's a lot of work, but I'm auditing, so I don't have to worry about that.
Intermediate Photography: The professor is a mixture of cool, crazy, and odd. In a good way, I think. The class should be a lot of fun. Our first assignment is to take photos at night/in the dark (long exposures, not flash), so we can learn to really push the film. I need to borrow a tripod, and then the shootin' begins.
Jujitsu: Ah, good ol' PE requirement. My only gen ed left. Was quite fun! I'm really bad at the flipping over part, but the rest was quite good. We did a bunch of stretches, falls, flips, and learned multiple ways to get out of a strangle. I need to buy some more gym clothes.
Completely unrelated: I never liked artificial sweeteners (especially since eating sweet & low plain as a kid, thinking it would taste like sugar--how wrong I was, and then there's the whole gives cancer to rats thing which is very unpleasant), but Splenda--that stuff is so neat! I've been taking packets of it from resturants. I read an article about it in Wired over a year ago, which was incredibly cool, and now I've tasted it and it does taste a lot like normal sugar. I dunno why, I just think it's really nifty.