justwallpaper: Intro:French,Francoph/Lit&Cult

rhymes with "papaya" (

justwallpaper) wrote,
@ 2008-09-06 07:59:00

Intro:French,Francoph/Lit&Cult - FREN 012 - 01
Carina Yervasi

Intro to Computer Science - CPSC 021 - 02
Andrew Danner

FYS: Introduction to Education - EDUC 014F - 01
Ann Renninger

FYS:Jane Austen,CulturalCritic - ENGL 009M - 01
Elizabeth S. Bolton

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	etonne 2008-09-06 01:08 pm UTC (link)
	Each teacher has the perfect name for the class he or she teaches! (or is that the point, and I'm pointing out the obvious?) (Reply to this) (Thread)

	justwallpaper 2008-09-06 01:44 pm UTC (link)
	It actually was not the point. But you're right! I hadn't even noticed. How's the hotel? (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	etonne 2008-09-06 11:25 pm UTC (link)
	The hotel is ok. How is the dorm? (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	justwallpaper 2008-09-07 01:40 pm UTC (link)
	It's really nice, actually; I got lucky and got one of the better ones. Is it weird staying in a hotel semi-permanently? (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

etonne
2008-09-08 02:10 pm UTC (link)

We're not allowed to put stuff on the walls, and the room is already furnished. So in a way, this feels less like my own personal space than even a dorm room. But that's not strictly a bad thing-- the bed, for instance, is nicer either a dorm twin-sized or my own bed at home.

And the hotel still has lots of normal guests. It's definitely a little weird walking out into the hall in the middle of the night, and seeing middle-aged businessmen at the ice machine.

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	justwallpaper 2008-09-08 05:11 pm UTC (link)
	Yes, that must be. Although possibly very interesting. Have you had any strange conversations with them? (Reply to this) (Parent)

	peachache 2008-09-07 01:19 am UTC (link)
	I WAS ABOUT TO SAY THE EXACT SAME THING. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	rarecarthusian 2008-09-06 02:54 pm UTC (link)
	Ha, ha, ha. Computer science. But the FYS about Jane Austen sounds so cool. How is it? (Reply to this) (Thread)

justwallpaper
2008-09-06 03:01 pm UTC (link)

IT IS AWESOME.

Instead of handing out a one-page syllabus, she handed out this fucking BOUND PACKET of the assignments for each week and excerpted passages and all of this super-nerdy stuff and I was really excited. Plus, she told us that she dislikes analyzing symbolism because she thinks it's too simplistic and reduces everything else that's going on to one crude image. Score.

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	sugardust001 2008-09-06 07:54 pm UTC (link)
	OMG YOU HAVE BETSY BOLTON!!! I actually liked her! Was she the one who made you play the name game icebreaker thing? She did that when I took her 18th century lit. class. Because I swear when you said that that's who I thought of and I wondered... Wanna say "hi" from Alex Loizzo who transferred to Barnard for me? :) -Alex (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	justwallpaper 2008-09-07 01:42 pm UTC (link)
	SHE'S FUCKING AWESOME. I love her already. XDD Er, she did make us do one, but that wasn't what I was referring to, since basically everyone had us do one. I will! :) (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

sugardust001
2008-09-07 02:56 pm UTC (link)

You said "er" like a British person. You're awesome. :)

Also, good point...I guess a lot of them do those games. I forgot that in MY FYS we had to write poems about our names as an icebreaker. I guess I was just slightly traumatized by Prof. Bolton's game because she asked us to call her Betsy. And I could not. So when it came time to say her name when going around the circle I had to say "Betsy Bolton" and be awkward. :\

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	faded_mystique 2008-09-07 12:17 am UTC (link)
	How do you only have four classes? :( (Reply to this) (Thread)

	justwallpaper 2008-09-07 01:41 pm UTC (link)
	Because it's Swarthmore and it's known for insane workloads so we were actually not allowed to take more than four our first year for fear that we would kill ourselves. XDD I'm also taking a P.E., but. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	faded_mystique 2008-09-07 02:09 pm UTC (link)
	Wow. We're not allowed to take more than 18 credits or else they'll charge us more money at UArts. lol So I took all 18 credits...and that's without an elective. I have to start taking electives next semester or else I might not have my requirements filled by time I should graduate. o_o (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	justwallpaper 2008-09-07 02:37 pm UTC (link)
	XD, I think we need to have thirty-something credits to graduate. But liberal arts probably works very differently from art school. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	sugardust001 2008-09-07 02:57 pm UTC (link)
	No, Swarthmore is just weird and only gives one credit per class. It's their own system. At Barnard and most liberal arts schools, classes are 3-4 credits. But I don't take more than 4 classes here, either. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	faded_mystique 2008-09-07 03:07 pm UTC (link)
	All schools are different. lol We need 125 or some odd number like that. lol Right now I have 39 credits under my belt and I'll have 18 by the end of this semester (given I pass everything), which will give me a grand total of 57. :) (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	etonne 2008-09-08 02:12 pm UTC (link)
	At Ramapo, we only take 4 classes. But there's more homework than at either of the other two schools I went to. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	faded_mystique 2008-09-08 10:02 pm UTC (link)
	Ramapo....are you originally from NJ? Or you an out-of-state student? Lives in NJ. I can see why they only allow four classes due to workload. At my school, you can take as many classes as you want, but if you want to stay within tuition range, your classes can't exceed 18 credits. So for me, my workload is based on all 18 credits, which for me is 6 classes. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	etonne 2008-09-08 10:07 pm UTC (link)
	Yes, I'm from Bloomfield, New Jersey. I went to high school "with" Maia Gerlinger. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	faded_mystique 2008-09-08 11:48 pm UTC (link)
	Ah, northerner. :P I'm a southerner. I'm just Maia's penpal. lol (Reply to this) (Parent)

	peachache 2008-09-07 01:21 am UTC (link)
	computer science? also, don't you have more classes?? speak to me (Reply to this) (Thread)

	justwallpaper 2008-09-07 01:41 pm UTC (link)
	No. see: college (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	peachache 2008-09-07 10:59 pm UTC (link)
	i don't know how college works. :( why computer science ho (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	justwallpaper 2008-09-08 05:13 pm UTC (link)
	Distribution requirement. Plus can be used later for animation purposes. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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