"Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?"
Apr. 28th, 2009 02:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
quadruplifyRather uninteresting life update ahead...
Yesterday was a good day, all things considered. The geology lab to a couple of area landfills (exciting, huh?) was a bit of overkill, especially since it hit 90 degrees F again (it did on Saturday and cooled down on Sunday), but I got a card and money from my grandmother (the sane one on my father's side), won a raffle at the college bookstore (even if all I got was a lousy picture frame :( ), helped work on a proposal for the fall student symposium which was due this afternoon even though someone I know has done most of the work (it's on current issues of indigenous identity in the Americas), my computer has somehow stopped making those annoying noises (I'll still have it checked out once I get home, though), and lots of little things that aren't quite worth mentioning here.
And I picked classes for next fall. This is what it looks like right now:
FALL 2009
ECON 0210 B -- Economic Statistics
--ECON 0210 W -- Lab
ECON 0265 A -- Environmental Economics
JAPN 0201 A -- Second-Year Japanese
--JAPN 0201 Z -- Drill
PSCI 0214 A -- International Environmental Policy
--PSCI 0214 X -- Discussion
If I'm going to continue my ES major (and I really have no choice, since switching at this point would cause a whole mess of problems, not least of which would be graduating late), this looks good, but this means I'll have to take Geographic Information Systems in the spring, which I have heard to be difficult and very time-consuming. If I also continue Japanese (for my minor) and take Local Green Politics (to get my College Writing credit and another focus requirement out the way), I'm going to have an already-full spring semester, which is my weaker semester anyway. This means that I would like to take 5 classes in the fall, so I can take those three in the spring. The problem is deciding my fifth class; I can't register for it now, and I don't have many other classes I'm interested in that fit in this schedule. I could take another PSCI class, or get a requirement for the Japanese minor out the way and take either the class on Kurosawa or the one on documentary animation. Either way, next year looks to be difficult no matter how I slice it, and this means I'm going to have to start getting more proactive about my education or else Bad Stuff™ might happen.
In the meantime, I'm trying to plan out the next couple of weeks. I have two rather significantly-size papers -- one at least 10 pages, the other is supposed to be less but if the last paper I wrote in that class is any indication I'll overdo it -- a presentation, and a skit (which I don't care about all that much, but it's horribly time-consuming and annoying). Knowing my state of mind right now, I'm going to try to find a way to work on all of them a little bit at a time and not wait until the day/night before, even though I haven't honed my paper and presenation topics down yet. This week isn't too busy -- just leading a class discussion on Thursday and a lab report on Friday (which aren't as bad as they sound) -- but starting this weekend I'll definitely try to make that last push. Not being able to get a ride to the Mogwai/Twilight Sad concert in Northampton on Saturday night (two bands I really, really, REALLY wanted to see, but alas) probably helps matters.
.....And I've rambled on too long again. I'd totally offer you an Internet cookie or two if you did read all this, but I'm fresh out. D:
Yesterday was a good day, all things considered. The geology lab to a couple of area landfills (exciting, huh?) was a bit of overkill, especially since it hit 90 degrees F again (it did on Saturday and cooled down on Sunday), but I got a card and money from my grandmother (the sane one on my father's side), won a raffle at the college bookstore (even if all I got was a lousy picture frame :( ), helped work on a proposal for the fall student symposium which was due this afternoon even though someone I know has done most of the work (it's on current issues of indigenous identity in the Americas), my computer has somehow stopped making those annoying noises (I'll still have it checked out once I get home, though), and lots of little things that aren't quite worth mentioning here.
And I picked classes for next fall. This is what it looks like right now:
FALL 2009
ECON 0210 B -- Economic Statistics
--ECON 0210 W -- Lab
ECON 0265 A -- Environmental Economics
JAPN 0201 A -- Second-Year Japanese
--JAPN 0201 Z -- Drill
PSCI 0214 A -- International Environmental Policy
--PSCI 0214 X -- Discussion
If I'm going to continue my ES major (and I really have no choice, since switching at this point would cause a whole mess of problems, not least of which would be graduating late), this looks good, but this means I'll have to take Geographic Information Systems in the spring, which I have heard to be difficult and very time-consuming. If I also continue Japanese (for my minor) and take Local Green Politics (to get my College Writing credit and another focus requirement out the way), I'm going to have an already-full spring semester, which is my weaker semester anyway. This means that I would like to take 5 classes in the fall, so I can take those three in the spring. The problem is deciding my fifth class; I can't register for it now, and I don't have many other classes I'm interested in that fit in this schedule. I could take another PSCI class, or get a requirement for the Japanese minor out the way and take either the class on Kurosawa or the one on documentary animation. Either way, next year looks to be difficult no matter how I slice it, and this means I'm going to have to start getting more proactive about my education or else Bad Stuff™ might happen.
In the meantime, I'm trying to plan out the next couple of weeks. I have two rather significantly-size papers -- one at least 10 pages, the other is supposed to be less but if the last paper I wrote in that class is any indication I'll overdo it -- a presentation, and a skit (which I don't care about all that much, but it's horribly time-consuming and annoying). Knowing my state of mind right now, I'm going to try to find a way to work on all of them a little bit at a time and not wait until the day/night before, even though I haven't honed my paper and presenation topics down yet. This week isn't too busy -- just leading a class discussion on Thursday and a lab report on Friday (which aren't as bad as they sound) -- but starting this weekend I'll definitely try to make that last push. Not being able to get a ride to the Mogwai/Twilight Sad concert in Northampton on Saturday night (two bands I really, really, REALLY wanted to see, but alas) probably helps matters.
.....And I've rambled on too long again. I'd totally offer you an Internet cookie or two if you did read all this, but I'm fresh out. D:
