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So school starts Monday for me, and I can't wait. This has been one of my most boring summers ever. I'm going to a new high school, and it's pretty nice. My classes are spread all over the school, so I'll be doing a lot of walking. I was wondering when school starts for everyone else and what you're going to, be it college or high school. Also what classes are you guys taking? I've got Spanish, geometry, biology, civics, criminal justice, and computers, not to mention english honors.
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This semester I have: Multimedia and comp. fundamentals, digital photography and imaging I, 2D design, Communication Fundamentals I, Website design and development, 3D Design I, and Creative Programming I
Do... Re... Mi... So... Fa.... Do... Re.... Do...
Forget it...
Political Economy, Campaigns and Elections, Social Welfare Policy, Basic Science, The Tudor Atlantic World and The History of India.
All Greek to me.
I'm not going to school, per se, but I plan on taking some creative writing workshops/classes this coming semester.
This semester should be fun.
(Also, German and (blech) Nutrition)
Classes start the fifth.
Electronics I (with lab)
Digital Logic Design (with lab)
Electromagnetics
Modern Physics
Circuits II
For a total of 17 hours, not including the labs. This will be an intense semester.
Oculus: TheBigDookie | XBL: Dook | NNID: BigDookie
Classes: Polymer Surfaces and Solutions, Polymer Characterization, Senior Design 1, Statistics, plus I'm starting research for my Master's degree
Luke's Gospel huh? That should be fun.
The Real World sucks. I miss college.
I go to a music school for recording, and all my classes have to do with either consoles, sound or Pro Tools.
This is going to be so much work, I want to cry.
Luke's Gospel is the pussy Gospel.
I will just post what I posted in SE++:
Gives you something to think about while you're cleaning out someone's pool filter
I got nothin
Calc 4 on the other hand...
Oculus: TheBigDookie | XBL: Dook | NNID: BigDookie
Someone in SE++ said Calc IV was easy compared to Calc III? Was I lied to? Probably. Calc III was pretty easy. Glad I didn't have to take II in college, because I would have been bumfucked by Taylor series...
I wish I had done my HW/paid attention more/studied more during Linear Algebra last semester, because I am so lost in that subject,
I actually really enjoyed Diff Eq. It was tough at times, but it at least made sense for the most part, and it has some good practical applications. You will be using some Linear Algebra when you get to systems of differential equations, but it's very basic stuff, so it shouldn't bother you too much.
Oculus: TheBigDookie | XBL: Dook | NNID: BigDookie
Apparently last semester so many kids were cheating in the ODE class at my school... ruined the curve. People were taking other people's HWs and changing the names or during the final, hiding the textbook in a trashcan and going to the bathroom or something... absurd stories I was told.
It really bothers me when people cheat, especially since the school I go to is so damn expensive. It hurts everyone else, and you're not learning from it, and it's just a waste of your education.
Some people, right?
I am taking a really cool class called Comics and Graphic Novels, so that should make the year much better. I just had my first class today.
http://thornsbook.com online novel
Ah well, that's the way it goes. I guess in the end it worked out though, because on the tests I actually knew the material and ended up with a higher overall grade than them. Still makes me mad though.
Oculus: TheBigDookie | XBL: Dook | NNID: BigDookie
Also, nutrition is actually a really interesting subject; it's completely applicable, important, and there's a lot of disputed material still.
Intro to General Linguistics
Phonetics
Introduction to German
French Language II
Global Networks (A Poli-Sci course, more international in focus)
Which happily enough leaves me with my entire Friday free for the whole school year, and my Wednesday free come 2nd Semester. Looks like part-time job, here I come!
Currently DMing: None
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[5e] Dural Melairkyn - AC 18 | HP 40 | Melee +5/1d8+3 | Spell +4/DC 12
I've got 20 credit hours. Present me hates past me.
Nazi Germany
Critical Approach to Fiction
Fundamentals of Philosophy
Philosophy/Elementary Statistic Reasoning
Collective Behavior
The Nazi class should be good, it's being taught by a well known guy, I guess, Norman Goda. I loaded up this quarter because I took like 2 of my sophomore journalism classes as a freshman. Now I get to get all of these general classes out of the way.
Anyway, I be taking:
Advanced Dynamics
Advanced Heat Transfer
Energy and the Environment
...and possibly Arctic Materials Engineering, but the prof is not someone I work well with so probably not.
Also TA-ing for a vibrations class and an astrodynamics class and doing thesis stuff.
Because I only need 5 more classes to graduate (unfortunately they're each only offered once throughout each of our three terms) I have to take other classes to stay full time so I dont have to start paying my student loans yet.
I am taking:
Japanese 201: Intermediate Japanese
Math 121: College Algebra (pre-req for stats and statistics, and boy do I hate math)
Art 105: Art through photography
Psychology 295: Research Practicum (research on apologies between Japanese and American culture)
Art 105 and PSY 295 only meet once a week for a total of 3 credits, so the only classes that will be keeping me busy this term are Japanese and Math. Should be a good term.
I guess this is a weird question, but is there any reason so many Psychology (usually with a minor in Sociology) obtain BA degrees instead of BS degrees? Just curious because an old friend of mine graduated last spring with a BA in Psychology and I noticed that most of the other psychology graduates also graduated with a BA. It seems like it would be more concentrated in the sciences.
Anyways, one more full semester and then two classes and I'll graduate with a BS in communication with a concentration on web and print formats and a minor in political science.
Financial Accounting
Introduction to Hotel Operations
Business Computing
Distinguished Lectures in Hospitality
Psych 101
Medieval 103- Legend: Heroes vs Villains, an Anglo-Saxon view. (Freshman writing seminar, 4th choice)
Haha, yeah, I took like a billion AP classes in HS. Senior year I did AP Phys, BC Calc II/III (which was basically for the AP), AP Spanish, AP Chem, and then my English elective because my school was cool and had those so I got to take cool english things, and MacroEcon/AdvTopics in Econ, the latter of which was just reading cool books like The World is Flat etc and discussing... I took the Macro and Micro APs.. it was very lonely because only 2 other kids in my class took the Macro, and no one else took the Micro. And I never took a micro class and mostly studied for the micro exam in the time between exams in my car... and did better on that than on Macro. Crazy. Hope this doesn't fuck me over this semester when I take intermediate micro after placing out of basic econ at my school.
And I took like.. the English Lit AP the year before (not a seperate AP class, but most people took it that year), and AP Euro which was one of my favorite classes, and the year before that I took the US History AP (no seperate AP class, just the people who wanted to take it they had a special extra learning/review session for in the spring).
So many goddamn tests.
So much credit though, ha. Only thing out of those that I didn't get credit for was English because I got a damn 4. And Physics because I didn't want to take advanced-kill-yourself-because-this-is-so-hard-level-physics.
Do you go to the Hotel School
That seems pretty cool
I visited Cornell, and got in, but Engineering, but the Hotel School seemed pretty cool
They got a nice Hotel there
And you guys have a wine tasting class that you can do when you're under 21
And pretty good food
Baller
This fall I'm going to finish up the last of my teacher education classes (zomg), which are:
-Methods in Science Teaching
-Language and Literature in the Content Area
-Professional Ethic
And then I start student teaching in January. ACK.
I talked to someone whose going there now recently, and he said that the teacher of his math class basically spoon-fed them. He said that his teacher even reviewed how to add multi-digit numbers! Great for me: I could be in an advance math class if I wanted, but I hate math so much and I always had the most difficulty with it compared to my peers in the advanced classes.
The only thing I've learned in math since 4th grade:
a squared + b squared = c squared
Pythagorean theorem FTW!
Fall Semester
Steel Design
Reinforced Concrete Design
Construction Management
Survey of Art History
Intro to Professional Ethics
History of Motion Pictures
Spring Semester
Water Quality Analysis
Geotechnical Engineering
Thermodynamics I
Dynamics
Linear Algebra
and aSenior Design Project
...and then off to reality-land.
You have to go to the real world soon
sucks for you
THE MAN
and his outrageous demands.
My classes:
Faith and Reason: Philosophy of Religion
History of Western Philosophy: Descartes to Kant
History of Political Thought I
Metaphysics and Epistemology
Directed Study: Plato - Phaedrus, Symposium, The Laws.
I don't think I'll even leave the library this semester.