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The obligatory beginning-of-the-quarter How I Feel About My Latest Classes post. Joy of joys.
Honors linguistics, first off, seems fairly interesting. It's actually a combination of linguistics and psychology that I was forced to take against my will so my honors contract would be accepted. It has no exams, which is wonderful, but it has a few homework things, considerable reading, and some papers to write... I think 6, but only 3 of them count toward the final grade. Could be worse. Stick around to find out how. -_- We also have to take part in an experiment or attend a talk for 5% of our grade... I've had to do those before... the experiments are actually pretty interesting to take part in, though a pain to schedule, and the talks are insanely boring. But at least I only have to do one for this class, whereas in my intro psych class I had to do, like, seven. Yuck. Oh, another fun note: this is a 1 hour and 48 minutes long class, and yesterday morning we spent a full hour of that just waiting for the teacher to show up. Most of us started to leave after 20 minutes or so, but as we were walking down the stairs some woman came up and told us our teacher had car trouble and was on her way, and herded us all back. >.> So that was a waste of the the first hour of my final quarter here. Heh.
My EALL class apparently focuses on othe five big schools of thought or whatever in Japan, China, and Korea - Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism, Shintoism, and shamanism. There are a few familiar faces in it from previous major-specific classes I've taken. Most interesting of whom being Meara-san. I've missed him ^.^ Anyway... no exams, again, but there's a group midterm project and a lot of writing, including a big fat term paper and a take-home essay final. All of which I despise.
Finally, honors international studies 597.01, stupid honors requirement I'd be much happier without. This is going to be the class that kills me. No exams again (!!!), but a few evil homework things and a lot of analytical writing, including ANOTHER big fat term paper, even bigger and fatter than the EALL one. Aaaaarrrrggh. Can I just get my diploma now and go home and sleep??
I might also add that my Japanese 612 was cancelled, but I am auditing J712 in its place. Or more specifically, the teacher of J712 will be holding tutorial sessions twice a week with me and one other student from my class last quarter so we can finish up the fourth year sequence. So my Japanese studies will continue after all. ^^v
So... foom. Monday of last week I won an eBay auction for a BLOOD tape, Live in USA, which has footage from their performances at Fanime (I think...) and Anime Expo, plus the PV for Sweatest [sic] Disease. *glee* Still waiting for it to come in... I'm really hoping it includes their cover of Vanilla from their live at... I forget, one of those two locales... because I would give a freaking leg to see BLOOD perform that song. XD Also, in the next few days I plan to order their latest album release, First Period BEST, containing all the best songs from their 1st period (when Dai was the vocalist) plus some tracks from their demo tapes. Psyched me. :3 They're also releasing an European version of the album I have the International version of... it has a couple extra tracks, a PV, and a 12 page lyrics booklet, so I'm biting my nails till the day it's released. Please oh please oh please let it have Death Dies... I need that song ><
Time to go earn some neopoints as I'm recently all obsessed with Neopets again. Go get yourself an account through that link so I'll get nifty referral prizes. :P And let me know when you do and I'll send you something cool... lol
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dragged from Becky's stream of consciousness at 3/30/2004 01:23:00 PM
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