First Day of Classes (part III)

I'm calling these entries "first day of classes" because, even though yesterday was the official first day of classes, each day is the first day of a class (or two) until tuesday rolls around again.

This morning I had Satire, an english elective, and it seems like it's going to be a lot of reading, but a lot of fun. My teacher kind of looks like if Paula Dean from the Food Network and Professor Umbridge from Harry Potter had a love child, but she's got a sense of humor and has a surprising knowledge of pop culture of the 'young people'.

My second class today was Science & Society Seminar, which looks like it's going to be really interesting. My teacher is also funny in this class, and he kind of reminds me of my high school english teachers if they were more nerdy and science teachers. He studied in his career oceanography, geological science, astronomy, chemistry, and like a million other topics, so, like he said, our course is pretty varied. The topics are all things that relate to social or political issues today, like global warming and genetic modification. He did keep us for the whole class today looking at maps of temperature and CO2 trends in groups, but next time we're watching An Inconvenient Truth (will be my second time) and discussing it. He also assigns kind of a lot of reading, but it's all articles online so there's no pile of papers at least. And he's going to quiz us on it every class, so I have to actually read these things. They're going to be from magazines like NatGeo, Science, Wired, etc, mostly magazines my Dad would enjoy.

So there's my academic wednesdays, tomorrow I only have design from 9:30-5, which i'm looking forward to.