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Sunday, 8 May 2011 12:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eighthphaseI feel like talking about my class schedule. Unfortunately, it's Sunday and I've got nobody to talk to. So I'll write a post about it! (This is how my thought process works. It's very strange.)
I'm signed up for four classes; together they make up fifteen units. Twelve units is considered full-time, but I felt a bit weird with only three classes, and I apparently need something like ninety units either to transfer or to earn an AA, I'm not sure which (but I'm supposed to do both, or something. It's weird). I've got an English class (Reading and Written Composition), a maths class (Statistics), a speech and communications class (Intro to Public Speaking), and a journalism class (Mass Media and Society). They're all transferable classes and they're all on the list of classes I need to take to transfer, so that works out nicely!
The actual timing involved works out nicely, too. I have at least one class every weekday: two on Monday and Wednesday, three on Tuesday and Thursday, and one on Friday. And they aren't all smashed together, either; Monday and Wednesday I have four hours between classes, and Tuesday and Thursday I have about two hours between my first two, and about an hour between my second two. My first classes start kind of early - 8:15 or 9:15 - but it's not as bad as high school, and it's not like I'm going to be there for seven hours a day or anything. And my classes aren't even all that long - two of them are just as long as my high school classes, and the other two are shorter! (Thank you, block scheduling.)
I was a little bit worried about fitness - this ties in with the whole "I ate a salad and it didn't kill me, it was actually kinda tasty" thing from yesterday - but I'd forgotten one important thing that actually makes me kind of hopeful. I know I'll be driving a lot more - once I actually start driving, anyway - and that is probably not a good thing since I'll walk places less. But at the same time, I'm going to be spending a lot of time walking around campus. And, unlike the mini-campus my orientation yesterday was at, the main campus? It's on a hill. There's a ton - a ton - of stairs. So I'm going to be walking up and down stairs all damn day. I may not lose any weight, but I probably won't be gaining any, either - and maybe my knees will finally stop complaining about stairs.
(Finally, to end with something totally unrelated - I found out that, yes, it's supposed to be impossible to aim with the sniper rifle in Mass Effect; there's a proficiency you have to take when levelling up, which I never did because I always just let the game spread my stat points for me, and I'm not really switching guns anyway, because the assault rifle seems to be the best choice.)
I'm signed up for four classes; together they make up fifteen units. Twelve units is considered full-time, but I felt a bit weird with only three classes, and I apparently need something like ninety units either to transfer or to earn an AA, I'm not sure which (but I'm supposed to do both, or something. It's weird). I've got an English class (Reading and Written Composition), a maths class (Statistics), a speech and communications class (Intro to Public Speaking), and a journalism class (Mass Media and Society). They're all transferable classes and they're all on the list of classes I need to take to transfer, so that works out nicely!
The actual timing involved works out nicely, too. I have at least one class every weekday: two on Monday and Wednesday, three on Tuesday and Thursday, and one on Friday. And they aren't all smashed together, either; Monday and Wednesday I have four hours between classes, and Tuesday and Thursday I have about two hours between my first two, and about an hour between my second two. My first classes start kind of early - 8:15 or 9:15 - but it's not as bad as high school, and it's not like I'm going to be there for seven hours a day or anything. And my classes aren't even all that long - two of them are just as long as my high school classes, and the other two are shorter! (Thank you, block scheduling.)
I was a little bit worried about fitness - this ties in with the whole "I ate a salad and it didn't kill me, it was actually kinda tasty" thing from yesterday - but I'd forgotten one important thing that actually makes me kind of hopeful. I know I'll be driving a lot more - once I actually start driving, anyway - and that is probably not a good thing since I'll walk places less. But at the same time, I'm going to be spending a lot of time walking around campus. And, unlike the mini-campus my orientation yesterday was at, the main campus? It's on a hill. There's a ton - a ton - of stairs. So I'm going to be walking up and down stairs all damn day. I may not lose any weight, but I probably won't be gaining any, either - and maybe my knees will finally stop complaining about stairs.
(Finally, to end with something totally unrelated - I found out that, yes, it's supposed to be impossible to aim with the sniper rifle in Mass Effect; there's a proficiency you have to take when levelling up, which I never did because I always just let the game spread my stat points for me, and I'm not really switching guns anyway, because the assault rifle seems to be the best choice.)
