I currently have an hour of free time before I am going to grab lunch with my roommates. I should be using this time to study for my calculus exam tomorrow, but I think we all know what's really important.
In short, the reason I have been unable to post is a phenomenon called "course overloading." If you don't know what that is, just pause a moment and revel in how astoundingly lucky you are.
...Done yet? Great! Let me subject you to my self-inflicted misery.
Normal college kids take no more than 16 credits per semester, to my understanding. However, my major requires me to take 18. Thus, "overloading."
At first I was like, "Wow, this is gonna be great. I always challenged myself in high school so I should totally do that in college!"
And then I was like, "Okay this is a lot of work but I can totally do this."
And now I'm like, "CAN'T THINK MUST READ LEARNING THEORY"
But for now, I will simply sing the praises of those 18 credits as the alarm goes off downstairs, piercing my ears for the third time this week [note: it's only Monday]. (It goes off whenever someone holds the door open, as I am in specialty housing and we don't have a security guard. I'm thinking of some choice Panic! at the Disco lyrics right now.)
Introduction to Education is perhaps my most interesting course. It consists of a lecture, discussion group, and field experience. The lectures are of an ungodly length, but sometimes we watch movies. But sometimes we also write papers. So that cancels it out, right?
As a side note, this is college logic. Things cancel each other out. Example:
I ate some ice cream loaded with hot fudge and butterscotch.
But I ate it while walking up some stairs, so that cancels it out.
Anyway, back to my class. On Wednesday I am starting my field placement, but I believe I am not allowed to disclose any information about that. But you can expect some generic stories, I'm sure.
What's a field placement, you ask? Probably the best part of my week! It's my placement in the field of teaching. I get to go to a school in Massachusetts and assist a teacher and observe in his/her classroom every Wednesday. I'm pumped.
Student teaching your freshman year? Does that even happen? Yeah buddy! This is called a pre-practicum, so if you're interested (shameless plug)
BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF EDUCATION!! bu.edu, guys.
Along with that, I have an Educational Technology Lab that we all just call ED101 because...well, to be honest, nobody knows what to call it. It's supposed to be teaching us how to incorporate technology into our teaching careers, but basically we're just learning how to make a website for our field placement classroom on Weebly. Weebly is actually a really nice resource, it's really easy to make a website there (she says while using Blogspot...). If you want to check out my site, don't judge. It's currently under construction, and I'm by no means a profession web designer! But it should be done around late November. letsgetrolling.weebly.com
Probably my most difficult class is Multivariate Calculus. My professor is this tiny old lady and I don't always follow what she's talking about. Okay, that's an understatement. I study most of it on my own from the textbook. I've been doing okay on the quizzes, but the quizzes are drawn word-for-word from the homework problems. I have an exam tomorrow and I am, needless to say, extremely nervous.
I also have General Psychology, and I probably have the coolest professor ever. We watch those awkward late 80s, early 90s documentaries on VHS, and she tells questionable jokes about how what guys really like are "BIG PUPILS." I just had an exam last week and I've been keeping up in the class even though I didn't take AP Psych, so basically that class makes me happy. The only downside is that it's at 8 AM.
Now, to those high school kids who are thinking, "8 AM?! You're so lucky! I get up at 5!!" You don't understand. In college, you get up at the crack of noon. It's like summer every day, except you work, and sometimes it's cold. I'm naturally an early riser, but my alarm for 6:40 is killer even when I go to sleep at 10 the night before.
My last class is a level 100 writing class. BU requires freshmen to take a writing 100 and 150 course, but there are so many options that you can basically take whatever you want. I'm interested in linguistics and where words come from (No, I didn't forget that I'm a math major, but maybe you forgot that I'm a huge nerd), so I picked a class called Structures of Language. It's very interesting, but we rarely talk about the actual structures of language. My professor is very passionate about Shakespeare, so we are mostly analyzing his Sonnets.
In case you were wondering, most of the love poems were written to a man called W.H. "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" (Sonnet 18, line 1) Yup, he's talking about a dude.
