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More daily nonsense
Sep. 16th, 2003 07:17 pmAd Mundo Exteriore,
My Intermediate Korean class has three fully Korean students, one being a former Hunter student in the year above us, the other being a MIT student, and of course me. The other six or seven are either mixed or obviously Caucasian. It was an extremely unsettling experience. We had a conversation exercise, and one of the students I spoke to had a rather confused look on his face when I started talking too quickly. That was so weird...
Anyway, I bought textbooks today at the Coop, but the Stewart text for multivariable calculus was sold out. I went to BN.com, where it was sold out as well. I threw up my hands and just ordered it anyway, using the gift card that one of my tutoring students gave me as a farewell present, which means it didn't cost me a cent. (And I got a Student Advantage discount, plus free shipping, which means there's enough money left over on the card to buy a textbook next semester.) It's not as bad as I expected.
I have homework to do. It feels odd. Haven't done homework in four months. How the heck am I supposed to get used to school after such a long break?
Tonight's resolution: to go to sleep at ten-thirty. What's good about being sleep-deprived, though, is that I'm exhauted enough to fall asleep almost immediately.
...Tari
Post-script: Thanks to Tin, I found the e-texts for several of the Five Little Peppers books, and I finished Five Little Peppers Grown Up yesterday. The sequels feel surprisingly uneven, as if Margaret Sidney had jostled together several fragments in a hurry without checking for gaps. Anyway, I knew Jasper would marry Polly, and I wish the proposal hadn't been sprung out of nowhere without more angsting on the part of the suitors. Also, I feel tickled by the Harvard references, especially "The Old Brick Dormitory", since all the dormitories here are brick (and old). In fact, the whole school is brick (and old).
My Intermediate Korean class has three fully Korean students, one being a former Hunter student in the year above us, the other being a MIT student, and of course me. The other six or seven are either mixed or obviously Caucasian. It was an extremely unsettling experience. We had a conversation exercise, and one of the students I spoke to had a rather confused look on his face when I started talking too quickly. That was so weird...
Anyway, I bought textbooks today at the Coop, but the Stewart text for multivariable calculus was sold out. I went to BN.com, where it was sold out as well. I threw up my hands and just ordered it anyway, using the gift card that one of my tutoring students gave me as a farewell present, which means it didn't cost me a cent. (And I got a Student Advantage discount, plus free shipping, which means there's enough money left over on the card to buy a textbook next semester.) It's not as bad as I expected.
I have homework to do. It feels odd. Haven't done homework in four months. How the heck am I supposed to get used to school after such a long break?
Tonight's resolution: to go to sleep at ten-thirty. What's good about being sleep-deprived, though, is that I'm exhauted enough to fall asleep almost immediately.
...Tari
Post-script: Thanks to Tin, I found the e-texts for several of the Five Little Peppers books, and I finished Five Little Peppers Grown Up yesterday. The sequels feel surprisingly uneven, as if Margaret Sidney had jostled together several fragments in a hurry without checking for gaps. Anyway, I knew Jasper would marry Polly, and I wish the proposal hadn't been sprung out of nowhere without more angsting on the part of the suitors. Also, I feel tickled by the Harvard references, especially "The Old Brick Dormitory", since all the dormitories here are brick (and old). In fact, the whole school is brick (and old).
