# Fall Semester, Anyone?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 29, 2007, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fall-semester-anyone/417331 "2007-08-29T04:59:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![Chessic\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7c8e57/32.png) [@Chessic\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chessic_Sense)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2007, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fall-semester-anyone/417331/61 "2007-09-02T00:36:50Z")

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Basic Musicianship: Class Piano  
Detective Fiction  
Narrative and Technology  
Political Parties and Elections  
Classical Mythology and Literature

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**Author:** ![ITR\_champion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c67d28/32.png) [@ITR\_champion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ITR_champion)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2007, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fall-semester-anyone/417331/62 "2007-09-02T03:48:57Z")

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After nineteen years of taking courses, I have now advanced to teaching courses. My load for the opening year of my teaching career will be AP Calculus, Pre-calculus, Physics, and two sections of Chemistry. Wish me luck.

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**Author:** ![exastris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b38774/32.png) [@exastris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/exastris)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2007, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fall-semester-anyone/417331/63 "2007-09-03T02:30:44Z")

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5th semester of grad school. Here is my load this semester:

-6 research credits  
-a 3 credit college science educational research course (very fluffy, for a certification- education isn’t my major field)  
-TAing for a sweet, yet very, very bad freshman-level science professor, and  
-oh my god, I have my oral comps this semester.

It’s the last thing that’s got me worried. I think I’m at the 10 week mark. The professors decided at the end of last year that comps were too easy (even though quite a few students fail.) I’ll be the fourth person taking them under the still-undefined-yet-somehow-stricter regime. And oh yeah, it was my advisor who suggested tougher comps. I’m doomed, doomed I tell you!

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**Author:** ![RedRosesForMe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/91b2a8/32.png) [@RedRosesForMe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedRosesForMe)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2007, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fall-semester-anyone/417331/64 "2007-09-03T04:20:41Z")

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I guess I’m a little late, but here goes-

Late Antiquity (the class formerly known as The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire)  
Medieval Politics  
The Ages of Exploration  
and an independent study class with my AoE prof, and I think I finally decided on Vikings as a research topic.

So my semester will be filled with marauding barbarians, assassinations, intrigue, discovery, and more marauding barbarians.

After this semester, I’ll only have one left as an undergrad! Then on to grad school (sigh).

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