Before my optimism gives way to my usual jaded cynicism, I’d just like to make these observations about this semester, so far. All one day of it.
Take a film class, if you can. I learned more in my first day of Intro to Cinema than I have in a long while. It instantly helped with a few screenplays I’m working on.
It’s either a really good sign or a really bad sign when the professor for one class is so late that everyone invokes the 15/20 Minute Rule and leaves. On the first day.
Nothing can be as amusing as watching freshmen scribble down notes furiously, and then the professor says “Don’t worry about that, guys, it won’t be on the test.” I even saw some scratching their notes out. Moderation, guys.
These kids today, eh? Younger and younger.
Also on the funny side: Watching guys who’ve never seen the combination of college girls and hot weather walking around gaping. These Yankees…
Evening classes. Man, I love em. I rose at the leisurely hour of 11am and arrived back at my abode at 8pm. Take evening classes.
The cunning individual can arrange to take a full semester’s worth of classes in 4 days (or less!). Be cunning! Three day weekends every week are well worth any extra work. I’m already looking forward to Friday.
We don’t have any evening classes (except a couple strictly optional ones with no exams or relevance to our degree). Every lecture between 9 and 1, and we almost invariably have a 9:00 lecture every day (in the upcoming year I will have 9:00 - 1:00 lectures, monday to saturday).
On the other hand, I don’t start school 'till October 4th. So I guess it balances out.
Heh, well, those are certainly aspects I haven’t focused on yet. I’m both a newbie to the boards (long time lurker, first time poster) as well as a newbie to the whole secondary education situation. Am going into my first year of mechanical engineering and most of the bits of information I hear are mainly focused on the insane, balls to the walls workload. Different observations like that are certainly welcomed.
I don’t mind taking evening classes so much…but this semester I’m also TAing two evening classes from 6:30-9:10, after I have classes of my own. Man, by the time I get home, I am wiped out!
Take a phys ed class if you don’t already do something and your school offers them. This semester I’m auditing a swimming for fitness class and a weight training for women class (each one runs half the semester), and it makes a difference. Auditing them means that I don’t have to take the test that the others have to or anything like that, but I still get the benefit of having an instructor help me out with my form and stuff.
Different observations like that are certainly welcomed.