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the encroaching doom + resolutions
Jan. 7th, 2011 12:34 pmI have (finally) gone through and added (almost) all of my textbooks for this semester to the proper Amazon wishlist. I didn't add my Shakespeare II textbook, because it's the same one as Shakespeare I, and the Latin textbook isn't up yet but I think it's Wheelock, which I also already have. I didn't add the textbooks for Children's Lit, mostly because I think I'm going to drop it -- the booklist is up on the uni bookstore website, and I'm not thrilled by it, and I have enough textbooks already that I don't feel particularly compelled to add more. Plus, that would put me at 20 credits, over the max (if I get into Shakespeare II; I'm waitlisted currently), and it's only useful if I do the English minor. I mean, yeah, there are a number of books on the Children's Lit booklist that I already own, but I'd have to haul them out to New Orleans, and nothing thrills me enough that I want to take an entire class on the subject, and sometimes I'm not entirely certain I believe in the concept of children's literature anyway. (Also I hate the term "literature." Sorry.) Sure, I read books that are probably considered "children's literature" growing up -- a number of them are on that booklist, including Little Women and The Golden Compass and Treasure Island -- but the pigeon-holing has my hackles up. So probably going to drop that, I don't need the extra stress on top of six other classes.
I also have one book that overlaps two classes! This excites me, I wasn't expecting Medieval Religious Culture and Age of Reformation to overlap UNTIL THEY DID. I still kind of wish I was in a different section of Honors Thesis Boot Camp so that I could take Ancient Christianity and make this The Semester I Found Religion.
My schedule this semester is a little weird, and uneven to the extent that I dislike -- last semester it was perfectly regular, gah. All my classes except The Etruscans and Early Rome are in the academic quad! Three of them in buildings I've never had class in before! Also obviously at the other end of campus from where I live, which makes it a good fifteen minute walk from my apartment to class, and I think almost twenty for two of them. (So a mile away, basically, or slightly less.) Including my Thursday 8:30 Latin class, blech. This is also the first semester I don't have a 9:00 am, which is shocking, I like having 9 o'clocks. If I drop Children's Lit, I won't have a 9:30 TR, either. (The 8:30 is only once a week, all my other Latin classes are 10 o'clocks.) Oh, gah, I just realized that obviously the only classes I have back to back are going to involve me going from the academic quad to the Newcomb quad (my only class on that end of campus) back to the academic quad. Oh, well, at least those are the fifteen minute passing periods, not the ten. I really wish I could take the other section of Shakespeare II, but that's at the same time as my Medieval Religious Culture tutorial.
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As a university student, too much of my yearly schedule revolves around the school year to consider New Year's Day any kind of new beginning. I don't know if this is true for other people involved in academia, but for me, it's easier to make resolutions at the start of the semester. The geography of the campus is different than the geography of home, the options more open, and the setting utterly different. The begining of the term is in itself a new beginning, an empty tablet the way the calendar year isn't for me.
New Term's Resolutions for Spring 2011
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Some non-term related New Year's resolutions/goals/wishes:
1. I'd like to make pasta from scratch, by hand.
2. I'd like to knit 11 Shawls in 2011 -- the first one is already on the needles! Little Valentine (Rav link), in Dream in Color's Dream Club Rose Smash. I'd like to get it done before I leave, so today, but that seems...unlikely. And do a pair of socks a month! (And document everything on Ravelry, so I feel more accomplished.)
3. I'd like to knit my first sweater. And colorwork. (And on that note, I'd like to get my Narnia bag (I reversed the colors so that it was a golden lion on red) finished, blocked, and lined. The actual bag has been done for two years now. It needs to be done!)
4. I'd like to make pizza from scratch.
5. I'd like to finish Dust II. (This one is a long stretch, I know...)
6. I want to go hiking this summer. I love Washington, I want to see parts of it that I haven't seen since I was ten and we used to go hiking and camping and canoeing all the time.
I also have one book that overlaps two classes! This excites me, I wasn't expecting Medieval Religious Culture and Age of Reformation to overlap UNTIL THEY DID. I still kind of wish I was in a different section of Honors Thesis Boot Camp so that I could take Ancient Christianity and make this The Semester I Found Religion.
My schedule this semester is a little weird, and uneven to the extent that I dislike -- last semester it was perfectly regular, gah. All my classes except The Etruscans and Early Rome are in the academic quad! Three of them in buildings I've never had class in before! Also obviously at the other end of campus from where I live, which makes it a good fifteen minute walk from my apartment to class, and I think almost twenty for two of them. (So a mile away, basically, or slightly less.) Including my Thursday 8:30 Latin class, blech. This is also the first semester I don't have a 9:00 am, which is shocking, I like having 9 o'clocks. If I drop Children's Lit, I won't have a 9:30 TR, either. (The 8:30 is only once a week, all my other Latin classes are 10 o'clocks.) Oh, gah, I just realized that obviously the only classes I have back to back are going to involve me going from the academic quad to the Newcomb quad (my only class on that end of campus) back to the academic quad. Oh, well, at least those are the fifteen minute passing periods, not the ten. I really wish I could take the other section of Shakespeare II, but that's at the same time as my Medieval Religious Culture tutorial.
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As a university student, too much of my yearly schedule revolves around the school year to consider New Year's Day any kind of new beginning. I don't know if this is true for other people involved in academia, but for me, it's easier to make resolutions at the start of the semester. The geography of the campus is different than the geography of home, the options more open, and the setting utterly different. The begining of the term is in itself a new beginning, an empty tablet the way the calendar year isn't for me.
New Term's Resolutions for Spring 2011
( Read more... )Some non-term related New Year's resolutions/goals/wishes:
1. I'd like to make pasta from scratch, by hand.
2. I'd like to knit 11 Shawls in 2011 -- the first one is already on the needles! Little Valentine (Rav link), in Dream in Color's Dream Club Rose Smash. I'd like to get it done before I leave, so today, but that seems...unlikely. And do a pair of socks a month! (And document everything on Ravelry, so I feel more accomplished.)
3. I'd like to knit my first sweater. And colorwork. (And on that note, I'd like to get my Narnia bag (I reversed the colors so that it was a golden lion on red) finished, blocked, and lined. The actual bag has been done for two years now. It needs to be done!)
4. I'd like to make pizza from scratch.
5. I'd like to finish Dust II. (This one is a long stretch, I know...)
6. I want to go hiking this summer. I love Washington, I want to see parts of it that I haven't seen since I was ten and we used to go hiking and camping and canoeing all the time.
