I’m back for the second semester of my fourth year of a law degree. This semester’s subjects are:
- Corporations Law
- Intellectual Property Law
- Legal Ethics
I’m studying ancient history. I’m TAing Classical Myth, which I suppose I know well enough. I’ve read everything on the reading list for the class (which, at about 10 books, is pretty tough for a freshman-level class) and will do a bit of brushing up before just to make sure.
My classes start the 5th. I’m not real nervous since I’m starting my 4th year (of a 5 year program). It also helps that I’m already here taking summer classes. How I long for the days of summer vacations. My mondays look like hell but the rest of my week gets easy, especially since I only have 3 difficult classes and 2 easy ones. I’ll let you guess which ones are easy.
Heat Transfer
Design of Machine Systems
System Dynamics
Billards
Film Arts (watch movies)
I didn’t get my (re) application back to my JC in time for fall (I was gonna go back on a lark), so I’ll take a few classes in spring. The Highwayman starts his first year of law school a week from tomorrow though.
Classes begin this week, and I’m teaching a few of them.
Actually, this fall I’ll begin my second to last semester in high school, at which time I will either head to MIT (very unlikely) or Tech (much more likely) like yourself.
My classes this semester are as follows:
Ap English
Ap Psychology
Ap Biology
Ap Government
I would much rather be in college. Except for Biology, I am just wasting my time in high school untill I get that lovely piece of paper.
severus -
There are people who hate math who take linear algebra? Not fundemental algebra, but linear algebra with matrices, vectors, planes, and all that. I thought linear algebra was the next step after Calculus - am I just sadly mistaken?
I’m heading back to college in about two weeks for my second year of Accounting.
Excited (I’m always excited about school) but nervous at the same time. This year is supposed to be tough, so I’ve heard.
My classes this semester:
Intermediate Accounting I
Systems
Management Accounting I
Finance Management
Macroeconomics
Business Statistics
and this week I’m going in to get stuff set up (turn in some old texts to the used book store, get my ID, bus pass).
Just two weeks!
I’m heading in for my second year at Southern Oregon University, which is in a fabulous town (Ashland, home of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival) but unfortunately full of drunken idiots. (Let’s just say I’m aiming for grad school.)
Studying dramaturgy, and minoring in acting and Shakespeare. I’m excited for the classes and the town! Not so much for the peers.
raises hand
this is my last week of vacation. le sigh. classes start a week from tomorrow.
in happier news, it’s my last year of school, and at the end of it i will have a shiny new graphic design degree. possibly a raging caffeine addiction (right now it’s just smoldering) and an abject hatred of computers after spending all effing day on them, but…a degree all the same.
and then after that, maybe…
a JOB. with, yanno, insurance. where i go home at night and i’m not covered in sixteen layers of dried sweat and kitchen grease.
good luck, everyone!
I start grad school in the fall. They’re even letting me run herd over undergrads as a TA. It’s my goal that my students don’t realize that I’m likely younger than they are. It might undermine my authority … not that TAs have much authority … at all … ever… ah well.
I start back in two weeks. Technical math. At least I get to buy a cool graphing calculator. I’m going to have to beat the women back with a stick I’ll be so cool.
I go back Aug. 29th for what will be my final undergrad semester.
I’ve got:
History of the Middle East 1500-Present
Physical Anthropology
Broadcast Advertising Sales (dropped if I get the internship I applied for)
Senior Capstone (a BS course where we learn job-hunting and turn in our professional portfolios)
Ideas and Culture of the Hispanic World (stupid Spanish requirement)
Robin
So I assume that you will have to mark essays. This is something that would scare me a little. I only took one post-secondary history class, so I do have an idea of how to write history essays, but marking them would be different. I’m glad that most of the times I had to mark a class, there wasn’t a great variety of ways for students to solve the problem. (Once I had to mark assignments with algebra proofs, which is harder, but at least there weren’t too many students.)
Basic linear algebra is usually taught at the same level as calculus. It is useful to most people in science in engineering, as well as to many people in business and, I assume, economics. So yes, a lot of people have to take such a class, including many who wish they hadn’t.
What I’m going to teach is actually the equivalent of a high school linear algebra class. I will introduce vectors (geometric and algebraic), lines, and planes. There is also a section on combinatorics and proofs by induction.
Oh, and here are the classes I’m taking:
-Chromatic Harmony (The class I’m most excited about, sadly enough.)
-Beginning Piano Techniques (I’m not sure why I’m taking this instead of trying to get out of it; I took piano lessons in high school and got okay at it even though I never practiced. We’ll see.)
-Beginning Music Technology Techniques (I’m most worried about having to learn how to use a Mac really fast.)
-Western Music to 1750 (This should be okay, although it’s my biggest class–only 18 people, but most of the others are less than 10. I do way better in smaller classes.)
-French Conversation and Contemporary Life (I’m skipping a level of French to take this class, so I’ve got two weeks to finish going through the rest of the textbook by myself.)
I start the Tuesday after Labor Day. I am only taking 12 credits. I took 16 last spring and ended up failing a class (didn’t study, didn’t do anything for it but go to class - that wasn’t enough for me to pass). I have decided I’m not in any hurry, I’ll do five years if I have to. Of course, as a 40 year old student I have already spent 20 years in the working world and honestly I am in no big hurry to return the ol’ 9 to 5.
Sched:
Sophomore Lit
Trig (blech)
Sedimentation and stratigraphy (lecture and lab)
Environmental geology (maybe, this might change)
Plus I was elected historian of the geology club.
So that schedule is nice. Last spring I had 3 classes with lectures + labs; 9 hours of lab a week! I was at school 10 hours every day (I commute). This semester I’ll have 2 hours of lab a week. Sweetness!
US society, Econ, Philosophy, and Biology here I come! Aug 29th.
I’ll be here 
Soon we can have a GTDopeFest. That’d rock
I must say I’m surprised by the response. I had expected maybe a dozen responses, but I’m glad to see such a vibrant and intelligent college community!
Oooh Boy! I’m actually really excited about Fall semester this year. I’m doing a 40 hour/week internship for 12 credits and… money! Since I have a paid internship, I don’t have to wait tables this semester. I’m also doing band and a tennis class for 1 credit a piece, just to have some fun.
I still can’t believe that I’m halfway through my undergrad. At least law school will tack on 3 spare years of not living in the “real world.”