September 23, 2010

• *embarrassed*

  It’s been a while, I know.
  But I’m here, aren’t I?

  My last post was written 3 days before school started.
  It’s been a whirlwind!
  I’ve never been so busy with school before.
  Partly because I’ve never taken 15 credit hours before.
  Partly because one of those classes is an 8 week course, which means it’s “double time” speed
  Which means I feel as if I am taking 18 credits right now based on workload alone.

  Despite the heavy load, I REALLY love my classes!
  Being able to finally concentrate my classes around my degree is wonderful!

  I have the charming and funny Dr. Okerstrom teaching us Early American Literature.
  It’s an early class, but there is no way you can get bored in his class!
  It’s always a lively discussion full of wit, humor and the occasional religious or political debate.
  (Most literature from early America was either political in nature, or was a sermon of some sorts)
  We were just ASSIGNED the homework of reading John Edwards, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”
  I LOVED it! Based on the title, I didn’t think I would… but the sermon is not so much “fire and brimstone” as it was sovereignty of God, how sin angers him and how he is full of grace, but he is also just.
  It was a beautiful read.

  After that class I have “Reading and Writing Nonfiction Prose” with another Dr. Ockerstrom.
  She is Dr. Okerstrom’s sister and they both teach at my University.
  They intentionally spell their names differently.
  She says he spells his wrong. lol
  From the title of this class, I was feeling very intimidated.
  However, despite the vast forms of “Non-Fiction Prose” like Memoirs, Biographies, etc…. We are focusing on the form of a Personal Essay or a Personal Narrative.
  This just happens to be the way I naturally write!
  Non-structured opinion based writing coming from deep thought about something big or nothing at all, all relating back somehow to the human condition – or something a reader can connect to.
  It’s basically journal writing with an audience in mind.
  Not this type of journal persay…. but if i were to design a blog about writing about things that I come across that cause me to reflect inwardly and “what it all means” then I would have written a personal essay.
  It’s still a very challenging class, but I love it!

  My last class for my MWF schedule is: “Introduction to Language and Literature”
  This class is my 2nd heaviest class in terms of homework and reading and whatnot.
  However, the things we talk about are extremely interesting to me.
  In addition to this, I adore my teacher, Dr. Donnelli!
  She is funny and understanding and willing to give us the time of day.
  She is wonderful!
  At first I didn’t care for the class because we had to go over things such as phonemes, morphemes, syntax, etc….
  We also learned about Noam Chompski.
  Now, we are getting into much more interesting stuff like Pragmatics, discourse styles, etc… so interesting!

  On Tuesdays and Thursdays I have Photography 1, because I declared an Art Minor.
  I like the class work itself, but my teacher is really boring and kind of a creeper.
  I don’t want to get into it too deeply on the internet, but he makes a lot of comments towards women in my class that are inappropriate …and when I goggled his name (which I shall not publish here) I found that his favorite subject in Photography is women in the nude. :-
  Nothing wrong with that from an artistic mindset, per say…. unless that’s the only thing you seem to photograph combined with comments made in class… *creeped out*
  Oh well.
  I am learning a lot in this class too!
  I now know how to control my camera, instead of the other way around…. and I can develop film in a darkroom using chemicals!

  I also have an Online class. This is my “double time” class and keeps me VERY busy each week.
  A typical week is:
  - Read Chapters 19, 20 and 21.
  - Post in the Discussion Board your answers to 2 of the 3 questions listed.
  - Write a 2 page paper on EACH of the questions listed online under “Week __”
  - Write a four page paper comparing and contrasting two of the poem’s you have read in this class
  - Take the weekly Quiz
  - Oh, and use MLA citations for EVERYTHING!
  - Ugh.

  Great class, but I wish it wasn’t double time. Maybe if it weren’t I could actually read some of this amazing literature with enjoyment…. :-

  So that’s life right now…. Once my online class is finished, I am sure I will feel a lot better….
  Day it’s over?
  OCTOBER 5TH.
  

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