How's School?

[Dr. Pezus]

School is starting in exactly 3 weeks.  

Just bought my last textbook, I hope...

English, I'm dreading.  Almost always my least favorite class, and I'm just not wanting to do it.  
Anthro and music, I'm not sure about.  Could go really well, or not so well.  Have never done a class like either of them.  Anthro has a lab that I'm worried about.  Music, I'm looking forward to, but very nervous about at the same time because it's all new stuff.
CPS should be great, but now I'm getting nervous about that too.  
Should be good though I think.  

Ugh, just over a week for me!

[Aura7541]

2.5 weeks for me. I need to get my butt moving to get most of my data collected before classes and TA'ing begin.

[the-pi-guy]

Next thursday, wowza.  

What exactly does an Anthropology lab cover?  

[Dr. Pezus]

Next thursday, wowza.  

What exactly does an Anthropology lab cover?  

yesterday, wowza

[the-pi-guy]

CPS is interesting.  It's kind of taught as an online course that's on campus, which is weird.  Think its going pretty well. Feels like the class is going too slow, in my opinion.  But that's okay, more time for other things.  Very excited for this semester.  

Anthropology is cool.  I feel like this class is going a little slow too, but that's alright.  It's a different kind of class than I'm used to.  It feels like Biology, history and maybe a few more subjects got together to have a party.  

Music Theory is okay.  I like learning about the stuff.  But everyone in the class has had far more experience with the subject than I have had.  This is the first time I've even looked at music in a classroom in 4 years.  The little bit that is saving me is what I remember from like freshman in high school and usually being able to learn it quickly.  There's other aspects that I'm having trouble keeping up with though.  

English is not my forte.  It's always a lot of effort for not a lot of work.  But I think it'll go alright.

[Kerotan]

Schools out.  And thank God it is!  

[the-pi-guy]

One really interesting thing is when a different class comes back to something.  

Math class, we talk about Laplace and Newton.  
History class, we talk about Laplace, Newton, Darwin, Cuvier, Pythagoras.
Anthropology, we talk about Darwin and Cuvier.  
Music class we talk about Pythagoras.  

[Mr.Playstation]

I'm enjoying the first couple of weeks, because I know that by November I probably won't have much time for anything apart from Pure Maths. Why did I choose Pure Maths again?    

[the-pi-guy]

I'm enjoying the first couple of weeks, because I know that by November I probably won't have much time for anything apart from Pure Maths. Why did I choose Pure Maths again?    

Pure maths is awesome!

[Dr. Pezus]

Pure maths is awesome!

[Xevross]

Pure maths is awesome!

But Maths used in Physics is the best! Go mechanics! Wooh!

[the-pi-guy]

But Maths used in Physics is the best! Go mechanics! Wooh!

I love both.  Can't have one without the other!  

[Cute Pikachu]

Just finished my hell on earth week of 5 tests in 2 days!
Lowest grade was a 88 Hell Yeah!

[the-pi-guy]

I really hate doing school work, like English especially.  I end up not doing some things...
On the other hand, I'm like really excited for upper level math, and computer science and physics.  

I spend a lot of time researching what classes I'll hopefully end up taking, and I look around for books I can buy.  
All this while skipping some stuff I need to be doing right now....


Anyways, I'm really excited for some of those classes.  

Math - Complex, real analysis, topology, number theory, etc.  Think I'm going to take as much analysis, algebra and probably geometry as I can fit in my schedule.  
CS, I'm excited to learn about a lot of stuff.  There's classes on programming languages, Operating systems, compilers,  graphics, AI.  

Physics hopefully I'll be able to do, there's classes on Electricity and Magnetism, Optics, Quantum Mechanics, Thermodynamics, and more.  


It sounds weird to me, but I actually think I'm more excited about math.  

[the-pi-guy]

I've got an A in my Anthro and CPS class though.  

Anthro is really interesting.
 
CPS is really interesting too.  It's very different from last semester.  In terms of how I'm feeling about it and how it's taught.  
It's weird, because I'm having less confidence about it.  I kinda think oh, wow how do I even do this?  Then I sit down, and do it and it's like that was pretty easy.  I don't think I've ever really had that before.  

Music is interesting too.  Not doing anywhere near as well in it though.  
It's a lot more challenging.  I think partly because he doesn't really teach that much.  And partly because it's completely new stuff for me.  
It's like I look at the homework and 4 hours later I figure out why something is the way it is.  Like oh this is why we can't have a major II in a major scale.  Then I'm like "did he talk about this, I think it would have been easier if he did."  And based on how the other students are doing and comments they've made, they seem to be in a similar boat.  
I think that class is how math class is for most people.  They might know they have to do something a certain way, but they don't really know why.  

I'm really awful at online classes.  
Something about them don't really click well with me.  Not having to show up for class makes things hard for me I think.  There's no instruction, I'm the one who has to seek out what I need to do.  Which is okay, but it's made worse by the fact that there's no showing up for class.  It makes it easy to just put it off till the last minute.
Really shouldn't have taken English online....