A Real Classy Guy...
School started this week, and, man, is it great to be back! I've enrolled for 11 units this quarter, all of which are courses that promise to be extremely interesting. Here's a brief rundown:
STA 100: Applied Statistics for Life Sciences.
Dr. Azari seems like a really nice guy who is absolutely ape shit over stats. Personally, I think that's going a bit too far, but he is very much into the practical use of math in research so lecture should be stimulating enough to keep me awake. Also of high attention value is the personal project that merits 10% of our course grade, because it allows me to twist Kimsey's arm into letting me do more research this quarter. Afterall, he told me to get an A :-)
FMS 001: Intro to Film Studies.
Like many of the humanities courses, this will be a completely new perspective for me- one I am hoping will eventually enrich my theatric experiences down the road. It's been a while since I've had a stimulating conversation about a movie. The only concern I have is that the professor earned her PhD from Berkeley in Gender and Women's Studies, so this class focuses a lot on those issues. I have a hard time with people that choose these topics mostly for the shock value, which appears to be her main objective, so we'll see...
ETX 228: Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry of Toxic Chemicals
Hands down, this will be the most demanding class I have ever taken. The professor actually even knew my name before I called him, because as the only undergraduate in the course, we was concerned about my ability to perform. It seems there were a few GRADUATE level courses before hand that I should have taken too. But we all know what an amazingly stubborn bastard I am, so I told Dr. Holstege to brace himself for an phenomenal performance. This class is central to both my master's project, and my ability to build a case against my undergraduate GPA when I apply in May for graduate school, so I am excited to really make a good impression. I also noticed a lot of worried looks from the students in the class, so maybe I'm not really so far behind...
In summary, I will be stretching my intellectual limits in class, and my social limits as Scoutmaster this quarter. The only thing left to stress is my emotional boundaries, and then I will finally be living the undergraduate life I should have been living all along.
STA 100: Applied Statistics for Life Sciences.
Dr. Azari seems like a really nice guy who is absolutely ape shit over stats. Personally, I think that's going a bit too far, but he is very much into the practical use of math in research so lecture should be stimulating enough to keep me awake. Also of high attention value is the personal project that merits 10% of our course grade, because it allows me to twist Kimsey's arm into letting me do more research this quarter. Afterall, he told me to get an A :-)
FMS 001: Intro to Film Studies.
Like many of the humanities courses, this will be a completely new perspective for me- one I am hoping will eventually enrich my theatric experiences down the road. It's been a while since I've had a stimulating conversation about a movie. The only concern I have is that the professor earned her PhD from Berkeley in Gender and Women's Studies, so this class focuses a lot on those issues. I have a hard time with people that choose these topics mostly for the shock value, which appears to be her main objective, so we'll see...
ETX 228: Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry of Toxic Chemicals
Hands down, this will be the most demanding class I have ever taken. The professor actually even knew my name before I called him, because as the only undergraduate in the course, we was concerned about my ability to perform. It seems there were a few GRADUATE level courses before hand that I should have taken too. But we all know what an amazingly stubborn bastard I am, so I told Dr. Holstege to brace himself for an phenomenal performance. This class is central to both my master's project, and my ability to build a case against my undergraduate GPA when I apply in May for graduate school, so I am excited to really make a good impression. I also noticed a lot of worried looks from the students in the class, so maybe I'm not really so far behind...
In summary, I will be stretching my intellectual limits in class, and my social limits as Scoutmaster this quarter. The only thing left to stress is my emotional boundaries, and then I will finally be living the undergraduate life I should have been living all along.
1 Comments:
It sounds like you have found a group of classes that should please your intellectual palate...which, of course, is great to hear. You can update me more on how they are going while we're all in good ol' PA.
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