Sarah-Beth (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} sarah_beth_d) wrote,@ 2005-09-16 20:59:00 |
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All's well...
In breif school has started, life is getting back to normal, and all is well on the home front.
I like my classes. Lemme tell you a little bit about them...
Monday and Wednesday from 10:30 to noon I have DAC 300. It's basically a Journalism course, with a focus on how journalism is being executed and thwarted online. Since I've recently gotten into blogging and reading blogs of all sorts, this course should be pretty interesting. The instructor works at The Record, the Kitchener newspaper, so there is some blatent promotion of his paper, but it means we don't have to buy a textbook, so I'm all for it!!!
Tuesday and Thursday from 1 until 2:20pm I have English 309c, which is one of my required rhetoric theory courses. And speaking of not buying textbooks - I am reusing my text book from English 292, because all the readings are the same!!! On the one hand, I save about $90 by not buying the book for this course. On the other hand, it means I'm paying to relearn material that was already fully covered in the previous course! There are a handful of new readings in this course, but otherwise it seems almost identical to the previous class. Ah well. I've decided to not care too much. It just means I can focus more on my other classes.
Tuesday nights from 6 to 9pm I have English 392a, Information Design. I still haven't attended, because I'm a dumbass. See, I thought the class started at 6:30pm, so I rolled onto campus and got to the classroom by 6:31 (yeah, I was late - I needed to buy tea to help with my sore throat, but more about that later...) and nobody was there. I rechecked my schedule online, realized I'm a dumbass, but assumed that the class was cut short and that I hadn't missed much. Pfft! Yeah right! It turns out the prof moved us over to the FlexLab (more about that lab later, too) and did a full class. Damn. Luckily, my friend Adam (finacé to Ashly and father of their super-cute daughter!) is in the class and will be able to fill me in on what I missed. Still - not a great way to start. Ah well.
Wednesday nights from 6:30 to 9:30pm I have English 315, Modern Canadian Lit. I'm quickly discovering that while I'm not big on lit courses, I usually end up enjoying them in the end. I still haven't had a lit class stand out as a favourite course during my university career, but I have always come away with a good mark and enjoyed at least a few of the readings. This should be no exception. I'm reading Emily's Quest (part of Lucy Maude Montgomery's Emily of New Moon series) and enjoying it quite a bit. It's taking a lot longer to read than I expected, so I'm glad I had all of today to start tackling it. One great thing about the class - the lectures only run from 6:30 until about 8pm or so and then most of the class is dismissed. I say most of the class because we have to sign up for two lectures where we stay behind to discuss the works in more detail and hand in a short assignment for a total of 20% of our mark. I signed up for next week's discussion group to get one out of the way early, so I'm glad I've given myself plenty of time to read the book!
Thursday nights I have Arts 303, Multimedia Learning Activities. This is probably going to be among my favourite courses of all time. Basically, we get to design a Distance Ed course for the school, with the chance to get paid to implement it! Along the way we're going to learn more about how people learn and how technology can be used to bring out the most in a person's learning style. The course is entirely based on groupwork, which normally eeks me out due to horrible, awful prior experiences. However, everyone in this course genuinely wants to be there, so I can't forsee anyone being an ass and slacking off too much. The best part is that we get to use the FlexLab for this course, too!
Ok. Let's talk about the FlexLab. Can you say 20 tablet PCs? Wireless internet connection? Lots of awesome software? Chillers? (The latter is a super-powered air conditioner that the prof can switch on if he wants us to wake up and pay attention! I just mentioned it because it's so freakin' bizarre!) But this classroom is amazingly well-stocked. Actually, that's the point. Theres some campus group that funds this room so that it has all sorts of new technology so that profs and a few elite students (i.e. my class!!!) can test them and see how they funtion in an educational setting. Having two classes in that room should be pretty awesome!
Ok. Now about this sore throat. All summer I've had bouts where I felt a cold coming on. I blame stress and fatigue. Well, I finally caught that cold while camping. Couple that with some mad-bad-dangerous-to-know (gotta love Blake references) allergies and you have a miserable Sarah. Luckily I was too distracted by moving and being incredibly happy to be home to wallow in my illness. Still, the illness decided it didn't like to be ignored and instead of going quietly, it settled in my sinuses. My sore throat kept getting worse, I started having trouble breathing, and I decided to call Health Services. The doc calls it Sinusitis, which basically means enflamed sinuses. I know have a puffer, antibiotics, and (wait for it... wait for it...) Nasal Spray!!! Yes folks, if there was any doubt before there can be no doubt now - I must be a nerd if I have Nasal Spray! I got these meds yesterday, Dad made me stay home today to recoup, and what do ya know - I feel MUCH better!
Oh, what about missing a day of school, you ask? Note the above schedule - I have NO CLASSES ON FRIDAYS!!! Oh, life is good when you're in Arts!!!
In breif school has started, life is getting back to normal, and all is well on the home front.
I like my classes. Lemme tell you a little bit about them...
Monday and Wednesday from 10:30 to noon I have DAC 300. It's basically a Journalism course, with a focus on how journalism is being executed and thwarted online. Since I've recently gotten into blogging and reading blogs of all sorts, this course should be pretty interesting. The instructor works at The Record, the Kitchener newspaper, so there is some blatent promotion of his paper, but it means we don't have to buy a textbook, so I'm all for it!!!
Tuesday and Thursday from 1 until 2:20pm I have English 309c, which is one of my required rhetoric theory courses. And speaking of not buying textbooks - I am reusing my text book from English 292, because all the readings are the same!!! On the one hand, I save about $90 by not buying the book for this course. On the other hand, it means I'm paying to relearn material that was already fully covered in the previous course! There are a handful of new readings in this course, but otherwise it seems almost identical to the previous class. Ah well. I've decided to not care too much. It just means I can focus more on my other classes.
Tuesday nights from 6 to 9pm I have English 392a, Information Design. I still haven't attended, because I'm a dumbass. See, I thought the class started at 6:30pm, so I rolled onto campus and got to the classroom by 6:31 (yeah, I was late - I needed to buy tea to help with my sore throat, but more about that later...) and nobody was there. I rechecked my schedule online, realized I'm a dumbass, but assumed that the class was cut short and that I hadn't missed much. Pfft! Yeah right! It turns out the prof moved us over to the FlexLab (more about that lab later, too) and did a full class. Damn. Luckily, my friend Adam (finacé to Ashly and father of their super-cute daughter!) is in the class and will be able to fill me in on what I missed. Still - not a great way to start. Ah well.
Wednesday nights from 6:30 to 9:30pm I have English 315, Modern Canadian Lit. I'm quickly discovering that while I'm not big on lit courses, I usually end up enjoying them in the end. I still haven't had a lit class stand out as a favourite course during my university career, but I have always come away with a good mark and enjoyed at least a few of the readings. This should be no exception. I'm reading Emily's Quest (part of Lucy Maude Montgomery's Emily of New Moon series) and enjoying it quite a bit. It's taking a lot longer to read than I expected, so I'm glad I had all of today to start tackling it. One great thing about the class - the lectures only run from 6:30 until about 8pm or so and then most of the class is dismissed. I say most of the class because we have to sign up for two lectures where we stay behind to discuss the works in more detail and hand in a short assignment for a total of 20% of our mark. I signed up for next week's discussion group to get one out of the way early, so I'm glad I've given myself plenty of time to read the book!
Thursday nights I have Arts 303, Multimedia Learning Activities. This is probably going to be among my favourite courses of all time. Basically, we get to design a Distance Ed course for the school, with the chance to get paid to implement it! Along the way we're going to learn more about how people learn and how technology can be used to bring out the most in a person's learning style. The course is entirely based on groupwork, which normally eeks me out due to horrible, awful prior experiences. However, everyone in this course genuinely wants to be there, so I can't forsee anyone being an ass and slacking off too much. The best part is that we get to use the FlexLab for this course, too!
Ok. Let's talk about the FlexLab. Can you say 20 tablet PCs? Wireless internet connection? Lots of awesome software? Chillers? (The latter is a super-powered air conditioner that the prof can switch on if he wants us to wake up and pay attention! I just mentioned it because it's so freakin' bizarre!) But this classroom is amazingly well-stocked. Actually, that's the point. Theres some campus group that funds this room so that it has all sorts of new technology so that profs and a few elite students (i.e. my class!!!) can test them and see how they funtion in an educational setting. Having two classes in that room should be pretty awesome!
Ok. Now about this sore throat. All summer I've had bouts where I felt a cold coming on. I blame stress and fatigue. Well, I finally caught that cold while camping. Couple that with some mad-bad-dangerous-to-know (gotta love Blake references) allergies and you have a miserable Sarah. Luckily I was too distracted by moving and being incredibly happy to be home to wallow in my illness. Still, the illness decided it didn't like to be ignored and instead of going quietly, it settled in my sinuses. My sore throat kept getting worse, I started having trouble breathing, and I decided to call Health Services. The doc calls it Sinusitis, which basically means enflamed sinuses. I know have a puffer, antibiotics, and (wait for it... wait for it...) Nasal Spray!!! Yes folks, if there was any doubt before there can be no doubt now - I must be a nerd if I have Nasal Spray! I got these meds yesterday, Dad made me stay home today to recoup, and what do ya know - I feel MUCH better!
Oh, what about missing a day of school, you ask? Note the above schedule - I have NO CLASSES ON FRIDAYS!!! Oh, life is good when you're in Arts!!!
