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summercomfort) wrote2003-01-06 03:55 pm
summercomfort) wrote2003-01-06 03:55 pm
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erm.... I might be a little crazy. (friends: just a little? sushu: shush) But I just feel so... alive, coming back to UChicago. Got up early in the morning, bought all my books ($340), and worked through stupid bureaucracy to get new ID card. Then got old ID card at library, and had to jump through several more hoops to get meal points and library privileges transferred onto new one. Anyway, Integrative bio is awesome! I love our teacher. He's so wacky and fun. Integrative bio is topically oriented. In other words, he picks a topic, and then we look at it from all levels of biology (from molecular to biosphere) So glad I'm in this class and not Core Bio
Then Languages of the World was intense.... ly boring. Informative, but not really the stuff I want to learn. But who knows? It's semi-interesting, so I'm willing myself to stick it out. Very small class, 12 people, but the teacher makes things so boring by *lecturing* to a seminar-style class. ugh. He's smart and he knows interesting stuff, and he does occasionally crack jokes, but he doesn't interact with us. I guess it's just hard for me b/c it's so.. new, foreign. I don't have any background to link it to, so I can't get excited. (Esp. since today was about Indo-European language system. He listed all of them and how many people speak each language. And apparently everyone else in the room has a very clear map of Europe in their heads. "What did Yugoslavia divide into?" "What's east of Turkey?" umm... yeah.
After that, I (decidedly insane), ran over to Wu Hung's "Arts of China" class. Intense, exciting. He changed my concepts of Chinese history. (for example, about Xia, Shang, and Zhou being coexisting cultures, and the importances of the introduction of Buddhism) Today and Wed he's doing an "overview" type thing. I love this class. His accent is sometimes a little hard to get through, but it's so fun and informative! ::sighs happily:: I'm not sure about course load, but if I can, I'll try to sit in on this class, because this is a vital part of Chinese history that I haven't really looked at as a whole. So yes, I'm crazy.
Tomorrow, I have my 9:00 hum class w/ same prof, etc. And then my 10:30 Soc class w/ different prof. He sounds cool. I'm excited! And here's what we're reading in soc: Locke, Hobbes, Rousseau, Nietzsche, Carl Schmitt, John Stuart Mill.
The Chinese Art History book is expensive! hmmm.... it's $80 at the bookstore, but cheaper online. Mom, do we have this book at home?
Then Languages of the World was intense.... ly boring. Informative, but not really the stuff I want to learn. But who knows? It's semi-interesting, so I'm willing myself to stick it out. Very small class, 12 people, but the teacher makes things so boring by *lecturing* to a seminar-style class. ugh. He's smart and he knows interesting stuff, and he does occasionally crack jokes, but he doesn't interact with us. I guess it's just hard for me b/c it's so.. new, foreign. I don't have any background to link it to, so I can't get excited. (Esp. since today was about Indo-European language system. He listed all of them and how many people speak each language. And apparently everyone else in the room has a very clear map of Europe in their heads. "What did Yugoslavia divide into?" "What's east of Turkey?" umm... yeah.
After that, I (decidedly insane), ran over to Wu Hung's "Arts of China" class. Intense, exciting. He changed my concepts of Chinese history. (for example, about Xia, Shang, and Zhou being coexisting cultures, and the importances of the introduction of Buddhism) Today and Wed he's doing an "overview" type thing. I love this class. His accent is sometimes a little hard to get through, but it's so fun and informative! ::sighs happily:: I'm not sure about course load, but if I can, I'll try to sit in on this class, because this is a vital part of Chinese history that I haven't really looked at as a whole. So yes, I'm crazy.
Tomorrow, I have my 9:00 hum class w/ same prof, etc. And then my 10:30 Soc class w/ different prof. He sounds cool. I'm excited! And here's what we're reading in soc: Locke, Hobbes, Rousseau, Nietzsche, Carl Schmitt, John Stuart Mill.
The Chinese Art History book is expensive! hmmm.... it's $80 at the bookstore, but cheaper online. Mom, do we have this book at home?