school update

so far i'm liking my classes well enough.

-modern to contemporary:
the subject is interesting, but the professor is really random. i try to take notes (and i would say i'm a pretty good note taker), but i leave the 3 hour class with maybe 5 words scribbled on the page and no idea what any of them have to do with anything. she also has this really frail shaky sounding voice that is hard to focus on. i think she knows what she's talking about, but i'm lost and have no idea. the pictures are cool though.

-survey in asian art: i took this one last minute because i needed another course. i didn't expect to like it, but the prof is really good and the class is a lot more than i expected. so far we've learned about buddhism which i found super interesting. it's all so positive and pretty much the opposite of what you see daily in our western materialistic society.

-death and concepts of the future: this class has not much to do with concepts of the future and everything to do with death. it's interesting because a lot of the images he show relate to/are the same as images i saw in an art history course i took last year (death in the middle ages, or something like that). also i met some people on orientation week that i sit with now so that's nice. the prof i like a lot. i've had him before. he's kind of arrogant, but it's completely fine because he's also really funny. also, he works in chicago style which i love, it's so much easier to cite things this way.

-byzantine art and architecture: honestly i skipped this first class because i already had the prof and knew that first lectures are just going over the syllabus and things. i'm going to it tomorrow and am assuming i'll like it, just like i have with the other 3 or 4 classes of his i've been in.

-intro to psych: found out on the first class that this course is mostly online and the in class lectures only last about 20-30 minutes. last class the TA told us we only have to come one of the days of the week. so now i only go on thursdays. the tutorials seem like a waste of time. she doesn't even really review what is said in the online lectures. whatever, i think it will be a generally easy course (it's a 1st year course i'm taking for my social sciences requirement). at least it should pump up my g.p.a which is always lovely.