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Jan. 10th, 2011 08:24 pmToday I had my first Intermediate Latin class, and because I am an idiot, I never e-mailed to ask the lecturer (she's a graduate student, I believe) how far into Wheelock we were expected to be. I'd gotten the credits transferred to Tulane, and given that I talked to three separate Classics professors about it, and all of them said that where I'd gotten in Elementary Latin at CWU was about where Elementary Latin at Tulane ended, I thought that was that. Maybe I'd be a couple of chapters behind.
Y'all can see where this is going, right? Not one. Not two. Not five. TEN. I almost had a heart attack in the classroom when I saw the syllabus. (TEACHERS POST YOUR SYLLABI BEFORE THE SEMESTER STARTS. PSA OVER.) I did go and talk to the teacher, though, and explained, and said that I'd get caught up over the next two days, and so all I have been doing today, with assorted breaks for food, walking, and my second class, has been studying Latin. Five chapters down! Four to go! I am pretty sure I was the only one in the library studying that hard on the first day of class.
Anyway, that panic aside -- at least I will be really well reviewed on Wednesday, as I will have learnt the previous ten chapters THE DAY BEFORE -- there is a guy I know in that class, which is excellent! Because I don't know anyone else in that class. Age of Reformation also looks good, there are some very enthusiastic members of the class that have taken the prof a number of times before (I've never had him), which is usually a good sign, and there are two other people I know in it. After that class I went back to the library and was there for another three hours. Tilton's a pretty decent library to study in, I go there if I don't want any distractions, and I might be there a lot this semester. (Which probably means I'll be online less, as I've never managed to get Tulane wifi on my laptop.)
(In other news, I went to bed early last night, as I'd been up for 36 hours by that point, and woke up in time to hear Maryland coming back. As I have been in the library all day, aside from when I went to class and went to Whole Foods, I have not seen her yet. Alaska still has boxes in the living room, I think mostly of her kitchen things.)
And now, to non-Latin reading. Then to knitting!
Y'all can see where this is going, right? Not one. Not two. Not five. TEN. I almost had a heart attack in the classroom when I saw the syllabus. (TEACHERS POST YOUR SYLLABI BEFORE THE SEMESTER STARTS. PSA OVER.) I did go and talk to the teacher, though, and explained, and said that I'd get caught up over the next two days, and so all I have been doing today, with assorted breaks for food, walking, and my second class, has been studying Latin. Five chapters down! Four to go! I am pretty sure I was the only one in the library studying that hard on the first day of class.
Anyway, that panic aside -- at least I will be really well reviewed on Wednesday, as I will have learnt the previous ten chapters THE DAY BEFORE -- there is a guy I know in that class, which is excellent! Because I don't know anyone else in that class. Age of Reformation also looks good, there are some very enthusiastic members of the class that have taken the prof a number of times before (I've never had him), which is usually a good sign, and there are two other people I know in it. After that class I went back to the library and was there for another three hours. Tilton's a pretty decent library to study in, I go there if I don't want any distractions, and I might be there a lot this semester. (Which probably means I'll be online less, as I've never managed to get Tulane wifi on my laptop.)
(In other news, I went to bed early last night, as I'd been up for 36 hours by that point, and woke up in time to hear Maryland coming back. As I have been in the library all day, aside from when I went to class and went to Whole Foods, I have not seen her yet. Alaska still has boxes in the living room, I think mostly of her kitchen things.)
And now, to non-Latin reading. Then to knitting!