Technically, yesterday was the first day of classes for students at my university, but this college doper does not have any Monday classes this semester so today was my first day. Overall today went very well. I got the usual truckload of work that I have come to expect from my professors on the first day but I am very excited about my classes this semester. The longer you stick around in college, the better the classes seem to get. As I start my fifth year in architecture, I must say that things are looking pretty good. My history and preservation class takes field trips every week and ends in a trip to the Church Brew Works. Our teacher smiled at all the 5+ year architecture students in the room and told us that this is our trip to shine and to expect to stay through happy hour. Every other class was great but after being here for so long I have mostly figured out the best professors to take so my current schedule has several repeat performances. This will likely be my final spring semester so I was just looking to get it started and finished but it is good to know that I might actually enjoy myself for once. How did the start of spring semester go for the other college dopers out there?
Man I want to go to Happy Hour.I saw that brewpup on the Travel Channel once I think. It looks like an awesome place to have a beer. At least I spend the evenings at my husband’s law school; they have open liquor here at least once every few weeks. Now if I can just get the SBA to spring for something besides Budweiser. 
I had to swap one of my classes out. Unfortunately I had a final scheduling conflict, so I retained Classics 150 (Female in Roman Lit & Culture) and got rid of CL51 (Greek Archaeology). I am taking Ancient Biography in the place of CL51 with a prof I had last quarter (this is my first year as a junior transfer). I’m having a lot of fun with it.
Between those two and CL153 I’ll have a lot of work. I’m also taking a (required) survey of Greek culture class and often find myself nodding off. I dunno how you can make ancient Greek history boring, but the prof manages pretty well. I expect I’ll have the exact number of ceiling tiles in the lecture hall counted out by the end of the week. Hopefully that will be on the final.
I estimate I have about 80 pages of writing to do this quarter, minimum. Hopefully I’ll come out of all this a better writer. I should be able to coast through next quarter on another seminar and two history classes. Life is good!
Good luck to all fellow student Dopers, and have fun this term!
I’m taking classes for the first time this year. It’s only one class and I’m taking it when I’m not at work, still excited though.
First semester doesn’t start at my uni until Monday 26 February.
Started the second semester of work on my MA in English, first classes were yesterday (Tuesday.) Modern British Literature and Restoration Literature – about two centuries separating the two classes, but it all runs together sometimes. $120 worth of books for required reading, another $250 for recommended reading, and I need 'em all because when I’m finished I’ll use 'em to teach junior college English.
Today I’m feeling completely overwhelmed, but I talked to some of my classmates as we stood in the checkout line in the book store yesterday, and it’s common. The first two weeks, we all feel like we’re drowning, then thing start to take shape, our papers begin to reveal themselves to us, research starts to pay off and we begin to believe we can survive the ordeal. Still, May can’t get here soon enough.
I start the second semester of my Web-based software engineering* MS on Saturday, but doubt they’ll really have any content posted for us until early next week. This semester’s courses: Software architecture and Project Management. I’m looking forward especially to the architecture course and hope it will improve my ability to look at the big picture when it comes to design.
*yeah, I know it’s not real engineering. “Software engineering” is an aspiration–a rallying cry if you will.
I hate you all. I started classes on January 3rd.
I started classes yesterday, and this is my first day at work for the semester. Unfortunately, I am still drudging through the intro classes for the fourth semester. It looks like my Managerial Accounting class will be somewhat more interesting than Financial Accounting, although I really have to pay attention due to my prof’s thick french accent. The rest of my classes are rather unremarkable, other than the absolutely hilarious flamboyancy of my math lecturer.
I can’t wait till this summer when I can start taking courses that actually interest me, instead of state required / weeder classes!