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This semester is getting off to a promising start!

The Good:

  • I’m definitely not taking that hideous-sounding particle dynamics physics course that Norm suggested I take. I went to the first class, and the professor greeted us with “Now, I assume you’ve all had Physics 230.” I had not. When it became clear that this was going to be very important to the class, I got up to leave. The professor stopped me and asked me about myself, and when I told him I’d signed up for the course because of an interest in fluid simulation, he told me they wouldn’t even touch on fluids. HUZZAH!
  • My Digital Figure Modeling class made it, and the times are actually quite nice! Monday 7:30-10:30pm (I’ll have to DVR Heroes and Studio 60) and Tuesday and Thursday 12-1:30. I talked with Scott and Laura about my Senior Project, and I’m really excited about it.
  • My “Myth in Ancient and Modern Society” class looks super cool, and my friends Lisa and Elaine are also taking it! Yay! Course description, for those curious: In this course we will explore the mythologies of selected peoples in the Ancient Near East, Africa, Asia, and Native North and South America and examine how the gods function in the life and belief of each society. The study of mythological texts will be accompanied, as much as possible, by illustrative slides that will show the images of these deities in art and ritual.

The Bad:

  • In order to avoid having Digital Figure Modeling class on Saturdays, I had to give up my Astrophysics course. Now I have to find a new Natural Science course, and they all sounded unbelievably dull. As all the other Natural Science courses that look interesting conflict with my Myth in Society course, which sounds awesome, I’m stuck with a Psych course called “Judgments and Decisions” (Judgments, decisions under certainty and uncertainty, problem solving, logic, rationality, and moral thinking.) But I’d rather take that than give up Myth in Society, so it’s all good.

The Neutral:

  • I’m giving up the Computer Vision class. It looked interesting and valuable, but I don’t think it would be a good idea to take five classes this semester, with my senior project and everything.