Classes! Woo!
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annundrielFirst day of classes over and done with!
Physics - Astronomy: The Solar System: Today this class made me happy in an entirely geeky way. I'm really looking forward to it, overall. Stars! Planets! The speed of light! Why Astronomy is being taught at nine in the morning, no one knows. If the weather cooperates, though, we may get to use the telescope some night and look at stuff. Hee! Anyway, the class will be a nice (relative term) change from all of the insane reading I have to do for Philosophy and English. Plus, the professor is from Wales, before moving around the States a bit, and she's got a bit of an accent so she's kind of fun to listen to.
Philosophy - Gender and Social Reality: I just re-looked this up on my program evaluation, and while it doesn't count for Ethics (as I thought it might), it does in fact count for my Interdisciplinary credit. Fascinating class. Today we discussed the need to determine sex (male/female) at birth and how a baby cannot leave the hospital if this is not determined. What happens then? And what if what is chosen for the baby is wrong? What makes it wrong? What really makes a male a boy? What really makes a female a girl? And why does the lack of one of these labels bother us so much?
It's gonna be interesting. Plus, the professor's still kind of strange and interesting. Good times.
English - Restoration & 18th Century Literature or Oppressive Stratifications: Race, Class, and Gender in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature: The longer name makes me feel smarter. :) *Lots* of reading. Several things I've read before, though. Have had the professor before this though, and she's my adviser, so I know what to expect class/work-wise. Should be interesting.
Gonna be an interesting, reading-packed quarter.
Physics - Astronomy: The Solar System: Today this class made me happy in an entirely geeky way. I'm really looking forward to it, overall. Stars! Planets! The speed of light! Why Astronomy is being taught at nine in the morning, no one knows. If the weather cooperates, though, we may get to use the telescope some night and look at stuff. Hee! Anyway, the class will be a nice (relative term) change from all of the insane reading I have to do for Philosophy and English. Plus, the professor is from Wales, before moving around the States a bit, and she's got a bit of an accent so she's kind of fun to listen to.
Philosophy - Gender and Social Reality: I just re-looked this up on my program evaluation, and while it doesn't count for Ethics (as I thought it might), it does in fact count for my Interdisciplinary credit. Fascinating class. Today we discussed the need to determine sex (male/female) at birth and how a baby cannot leave the hospital if this is not determined. What happens then? And what if what is chosen for the baby is wrong? What makes it wrong? What really makes a male a boy? What really makes a female a girl? And why does the lack of one of these labels bother us so much?
It's gonna be interesting. Plus, the professor's still kind of strange and interesting. Good times.
English - Restoration & 18th Century Literature or Oppressive Stratifications: Race, Class, and Gender in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature: The longer name makes me feel smarter. :) *Lots* of reading. Several things I've read before, though. Have had the professor before this though, and she's my adviser, so I know what to expect class/work-wise. Should be interesting.
Gonna be an interesting, reading-packed quarter.
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Date: 2005-09-23 04:30 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-09-23 05:08 pm (UTC)And yea for having someone to actually talk to in it! :)