IT'S BAAAAAAAAAACK
I am sooooo sorry for abandoning this blog. D: Life happened. And by 'life', I basically mean 'a barrage of anime con, wedding, and university'.
But let's get back into things.
So, I just finished my third official week of being a SFU student.
First, some things about SFU/university life:
1. I am addicted to the freedom. I mean, yes, there are scheduled classes, but it's like... you are in charge of your own destiny. I LOVE IT. Without the ties of consistent scheduling, each day is another practice in thinking for yourself. I mean, yeah, it kind of sucks not having the usual lunch break from 11:30-12:15 precisely every day, but at the same time it's like... yeah. Liberating. If I want to have lunch by myself in a random hallway at 2 PM, I'm allowed.
2. I'm hanging out with a lot of the same people, notably people from my high school. Especially Susan. Susan and I have grown about 20x closer since the anime con (when we were together for basically an entire weekend) and since the start of university.
3. You are able to walk ANYWHERE on SFU campus without being caught in the rain for more than about 10 seconds. Amazing, no? Good planning, because, um, yeah. Today for example, we were INSIDE the cloud. Yaaaay for being on a mountain.
4. Music plays in the Concourse Mall (AKA main outside area). It's pretty cool. Although kind of repetitive. A whooole lot of Michael Jackson remixes. Or maybe that's just when I'm there.
So I'll talk about my classes for a bit. I'm taking 5 of them and for the most part am enjoying them highly.
GERM102 - Introductory German I
I am actually loving this class. I've never taken German before and had no friends in the class so it was really intimidating, but I'd say it's my most fun class. It's a small class of about 30 people and there is a LOT of talking, so you're kind of forced to get to know the people around you. German is at a good level of difficulty for me, too: it's not so hard that I get frustrated with it, but it's not so easy that it's boring. It's challenging. I like languages, they're like huge elaborate puzzles. The prof is pretty cool. She's really enthusiastic and funny and tells lots of stories. Plus there's a few cute guys. Haven't made any real friends yet, mostly seats shift around class to class so you talk to new people each time.
PHYS190 - Introduction to Astronomy
This is also a good class. Kayla and Susan are in it with me, so there's someone to talk to all the time. Although sometimes when I'm in a bad mood it can be annoying. Anywaaaays... The content's pretty easy so far and it's somewhat interesting. It's about as interesting as science can get for me. -_-; The prof is enthusiastic and dorky. He reminds me of Mr Price, except a lot happier overall. One of my beefs with this class is that there's a few know-it-alls who kind of hold up the class. Also another beef, the prof mentions something and then says, "But we'll talk more about that later," A LOT. Like... talk about it now damnit, while I still kind of understand!!
HIST152 - Modern Middle Eastern History
This class is the most interesting content-wise. It starts from the formation of the Ottoman Empire up until current day. It's really interesting to me because I don't know much about Middle Eastern history, so it's all new to me. Well, so far anyways. Once we pass WWI then I'll know a bit more. Right now we're at about 1880. The prof is... interesting, don't really know what to make of him. I don't particularly like or dislike him. He's a good lecturer and that's all the interaction I have with him. :/ I like my TA, she's really nice. My tutorial is a little bit, um, dead. People don't talk much. No friends made yet. Although there is a guy from my German class in here, I found out on Thursday. And he's cute.
HSCI120 - Introduction to Human Sexuality and Sexual Behaviour
Now that the excitement of OMG I'M TAKING A SEX CLASS HOW REBEL has died down a bit, this class is still interesting but not too scandalous. Kayla's in it with me which can make for some interesting reactions. The prof is pretty cool, she's really relaxed and makes a lot of jokes. The class has a good atmosphere of having fun but also being able to be serious when necessary.
ARCH100 - Ancient Peoples and Places
This class is kind of boring. Yvette and Brianna are in it with me buuut it's still pretty dull. It goes pretty fast and so far it seems to be a lot of talking about the different kinds of blades used by various groups. I mean, there are interesting aspects to it like talking about whether the traditional theory of native Americans coming from Asia via the gap in the glaciers in 12000 BP is true, or whether there was an earlier migration via the North American coastline which wasn't covered in glaciers around 16000 BP. But, y'know, overall. Yawn. Also the prof and TAs have a habit of zooming through the slides and ending class like an hour early because they went too fast, leaving me pissed off and my schedule messed up. I haven't really gotten an impression of the prof/TAs yet because they pretty much just read from the slides. No personality.
So... Yeah. That's university.
My class schedule is pretty sweet and allows me to sleep in most days. On Tuesdays and Thursdays I have to get up at 8:30, but other than that I'm good to go.
Speaking of which, as it's Monday night (Tuesday morning now technically), I should get going to sleep if I want to be awake for my classes tomorrow. Night!
