Tomorrow Is Creative Writing And CS, Yay
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masterofmidgetsI am...cautiously optimistic about this term thus far. Still two more classes to go to tomorrow, and it's hard to make value judgments based off one day of lessons, BUT.
My English prof seems kind of fantastically cool. Really nice, really enthusiastic, and really Canadian *grins*. The reading load is pretty heavy (I have to read 150 pages of Jane Eyre by Thursday, EW), but the work load's pretty reasonable. Two papers, a 6 page and an 8 page, plus a bunch of non-graded reading responses. I can totally handle that. I think the topic - how contemporary literature functions as an extension of, a reflection of, or a rejection of older literature, has the potential to be facinating. So yay for English class.
I love my Japanese class so much so far! It is really tiny! Only 7 people counting me. And the sensei is extremely nice and easy to understand. The best part, though, is that I feel like the class, both in terms of what we're learning and the other people in the class, is a lot more on my level than my class last term. A lot of what I learn is going to be review, but I'm okay with that since I don't feel I grasped it that well before. And everyone else in the class is at a similar level of flailing around trying to remember words and how to end their verbs, which is such a nice change from last term, when I felt like I spent the whole time apologizing to people who were better than me for sucking so much. And having it only 2 days a week is going to make my life waaay easier. So yeah, good class is good.
Re: that whole thing where LJ laid off some of their staff and everyone is freaking out because this is LJ and what are we here for if not to overreact and blame people - I'm not all that worried, really. But in case LJ does go down in a flaming pile of wreckage and internet memes, you can find me on insanejournal and journalfen, both under the name masterofmidgets.
My English prof seems kind of fantastically cool. Really nice, really enthusiastic, and really Canadian *grins*. The reading load is pretty heavy (I have to read 150 pages of Jane Eyre by Thursday, EW), but the work load's pretty reasonable. Two papers, a 6 page and an 8 page, plus a bunch of non-graded reading responses. I can totally handle that. I think the topic - how contemporary literature functions as an extension of, a reflection of, or a rejection of older literature, has the potential to be facinating. So yay for English class.
I love my Japanese class so much so far! It is really tiny! Only 7 people counting me. And the sensei is extremely nice and easy to understand. The best part, though, is that I feel like the class, both in terms of what we're learning and the other people in the class, is a lot more on my level than my class last term. A lot of what I learn is going to be review, but I'm okay with that since I don't feel I grasped it that well before. And everyone else in the class is at a similar level of flailing around trying to remember words and how to end their verbs, which is such a nice change from last term, when I felt like I spent the whole time apologizing to people who were better than me for sucking so much. And having it only 2 days a week is going to make my life waaay easier. So yeah, good class is good.
Re: that whole thing where LJ laid off some of their staff and everyone is freaking out because this is LJ and what are we here for if not to overreact and blame people - I'm not all that worried, really. But in case LJ does go down in a flaming pile of wreckage and internet memes, you can find me on insanejournal and journalfen, both under the name masterofmidgets.
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Date: 2009-01-07 05:37 am (UTC)