Another update
Sep. 15th, 2003 05:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tarigwaemirAd Mundo Exteriore,
I'm really sleepy because for some reason a Hunter person decided that he wanted to have a deeply personal and very embarrassing IM conversation at one in the morning. O_O I mean, I didn't mind because I made sure that I wasn't the only person feeling humiliated (hah, the strategies of bargaining for good blackmail material), but it felt so odd. My first time having a "girltalk" except with a boy, which kind of contradicts the very name "girltalk", making the situation increasingly weird and absurd as I think on it in retrospect. Anyway, I guess I have a gossip fiend somewhere deep inside myself.
And yeah, such a wonderful sense of timing. Today was the first day of classes. But amazingly I didn't fall asleep, because all of the classes I was shopping (yes, we're still in shopping period) ranged from interesting to downright mindbogglingly amazing. I'm in shock over how many good professors there are! One of the Core courses that I sat in on, Moral Reasoning 22: Justice, is one of the most popular in the curriculum, and I completely can understand why. The professor immediately captured everyone's interest, and he spoke so eloquently...I'm still amazed.
I don't think I'll end up taking it though, unless I don't get into any of the freshman seminars. ::sighs:: Well, it'll be offered again junior year.
Oh yeah, not all of the classes were so wonderful. I kept yawning in Biological Sciences 50, which was kind of embarrassing. But the professor was just average, neither dull nor especially interesting, so my eyes started closing on me. >_< In biology too! The material does look really introductory though, so my enthusiasm for it is beginning to lag. Too bad I actually have to take it for concentration requirements.
The Dalai Lama came to speak today, and since I didn't have tickets, L.P. and I went over to the Science Center to watch the simulcast. Except the lecture hall was so full that we gave up and went back to our dorm to watch the webcast instead. So now I can say that I heard the Dalai Lama speak live over L.P.'s computer speakers. It wasn't a particularly eyeopening message, and I did blank out during bits of it because his English was rather broken and it was hard following his anecdotes. But hey, at least my parents will be impressed.
Does anyone remember the title of the Mary Renault book on Alexander the Great? The one on his childhood and adolescence, I mean? It comes before The Persian Boy and tells how Alexander's relationship with Hephaistion developed (among other things, like his weird Oedipal complex toward his parents).
...Tari
I'm really sleepy because for some reason a Hunter person decided that he wanted to have a deeply personal and very embarrassing IM conversation at one in the morning. O_O I mean, I didn't mind because I made sure that I wasn't the only person feeling humiliated (hah, the strategies of bargaining for good blackmail material), but it felt so odd. My first time having a "girltalk" except with a boy, which kind of contradicts the very name "girltalk", making the situation increasingly weird and absurd as I think on it in retrospect. Anyway, I guess I have a gossip fiend somewhere deep inside myself.
And yeah, such a wonderful sense of timing. Today was the first day of classes. But amazingly I didn't fall asleep, because all of the classes I was shopping (yes, we're still in shopping period) ranged from interesting to downright mindbogglingly amazing. I'm in shock over how many good professors there are! One of the Core courses that I sat in on, Moral Reasoning 22: Justice, is one of the most popular in the curriculum, and I completely can understand why. The professor immediately captured everyone's interest, and he spoke so eloquently...I'm still amazed.
I don't think I'll end up taking it though, unless I don't get into any of the freshman seminars. ::sighs:: Well, it'll be offered again junior year.
Oh yeah, not all of the classes were so wonderful. I kept yawning in Biological Sciences 50, which was kind of embarrassing. But the professor was just average, neither dull nor especially interesting, so my eyes started closing on me. >_< In biology too! The material does look really introductory though, so my enthusiasm for it is beginning to lag. Too bad I actually have to take it for concentration requirements.
The Dalai Lama came to speak today, and since I didn't have tickets, L.P. and I went over to the Science Center to watch the simulcast. Except the lecture hall was so full that we gave up and went back to our dorm to watch the webcast instead. So now I can say that I heard the Dalai Lama speak live over L.P.'s computer speakers. It wasn't a particularly eyeopening message, and I did blank out during bits of it because his English was rather broken and it was hard following his anecdotes. But hey, at least my parents will be impressed.
Does anyone remember the title of the Mary Renault book on Alexander the Great? The one on his childhood and adolescence, I mean? It comes before The Persian Boy and tells how Alexander's relationship with Hephaistion developed (among other things, like his weird Oedipal complex toward his parents).
...Tari
