ATTENTION COLLEGE STUDENTS: how's it going?

[anthrogirl]

Hey fellow college students!!!


just curious: what classes are you taking this fall, what is your major, and how is the term/semester going?

ag

[Raptor]

I'm lucky this semester, I'm just in Calculus II. My major is meteorlogy, and it's outstanding. The class is going well so far. It kinda sucks only being in one class, but it's nice to be able to focus.
I only need Calculus II through IV and Physics I and II to be in the meteorology program, which I will start next fall. If you need a clue to my school, check out my avatar.
I'm curious myself as to how many twebbers are in college.

[Tfbandie]

I got off on a somewhat easier schedule this semester as well (especially time-wise being able to get 9-10 hours of sleep a night :smile:)
I'm taking Euclidean and Non-Euclidean Geometry which is taught by a fun little welsh dude, Thermaldynamics, and Electrocity and magnetism. I also have 6 hours of lab a week in a course called Experimental Physics. Which is fun. All in all great professors and pretty good classes.
And if you can't tell, I'm a dual major, Mathematics and Physics. Also going for teacher certification so going through education courses as well.
I'm also on the Ultimate frisbee team which takes up some of my free time. All in all an awesome semester, with not too much work and but enough to stay busy

[anthrogirl]

cool! i'm delighted to hear that you guys are enjoying this term!

I'm taking:

Human Anatomy and Physiology (with cadavar lab)
Chinese (Mandarin--speaking, reading, writing)
Health/Culture/Healing (a Medical Anthopology course)
and...


Hip-Hop Dance!!!

(i'm just so white, never learned how to shake my thang--it should be fun, or embarassing, or both)

plus, 30 hrs/wk of work

and I was recently appointed to the Student Health Advisory Board at my university--should be interesting...


always,
anthrogoof

[Em7add11]

AG, dance classes are so much fun. They help break up must-have classes with some recreation.

I'm taking a dance class right now that's focusing on Salsa, Bolero, and Argentine Tango. I'm not great but I'm getting there. :smile:

[anthrogirl]

tango is very cool. so is salsa! i've never tried boler--but it looks fun!

when i tried tango, and salsa, i had a really hard time loosening my hips (:lol: perhaps it was my baptist upbringing!). so i thought hip-hop might help me get in the groove.

i wish i could breakdance...


olé!

ag

[Amazing Rando]

Does grad school count? I just began my first semester of seminary at Eastern Mennonite Seminary (http://www,emu.edu/seminary). I LOVE it! :teeth:

I'm taking:

1. Old Testament Text in Context
2. Elementary Greek
3. Methods of Research
4. Formations in Personhood
5. Christian Tradition I
6. The Gospel of Matthew

[Xavier]

I'm roaring for the Tigers this year...

Finishing up my Pre-Engineering stuff...

Calc II
Chem II
Physics I (sort of)
Sociology
Frisbee

[Tfbandie]

Frisbee


:woohoo:

[Xavier]

:yes: My section is taught by the Asst. Campus Minister at Wesley, who just happens to be a very good friend of mine (and the captain of the Club Ultimate team for 2 years).

:teeth:

[Tfbandie]

Is that a gym class? that would be cool, I'm just on the club team, the MudSharks

[Xavier]

Leisure Skills is the offical title, but yeah it's a P E.

[Tfbandie]

frisbee does fit very well into Leisure Skill

[Xavier]

I think so... :teeth:

[NSMinistries]

Computer Programming Design

and cleping a few others... :nsm:

first time back since all the eye trouble...

doing some online stuff this time since I can't drive in the dark.

[DawnBat]

Old Testament History
Christian Life and Ministry
Bible Interpretation (otherwise known as Hermeneutics for kn00bees like myself.)
Choir

At my new school, you're required to reach out to the community, so I also design posters for a group working in the local secular campus.

Yay! No more teachers telling me that Christianity is Yet Another Mystery Religeon, and refusing to explain why or listen to my refutations. I know I'm not good a debate, but it sucks when you get an F because the teacher didn't even try to refute you.

[Tfbandie]

Old Testament History
Christian Life and Ministry
Bible Interpretation (otherwise known as Hermeneutics for kn00bees like myself.)
Choir

At my new school, you're required to reach out to the community, so I also design posters for a group working in the local secular campus.

Yay! No more teachers telling me that Christianity is Yet Another Mystery Religeon, and refusing to explain why or listen to my refutations. I know I'm not good a debate, but it sucks when you get an F because the teacher didn't even try to refute you.


I've come to enjoy my private college for the diversity present. I've studied with a jewish Rabbi, and have had an atheist, muslim, multiple other jewish proffesors as well as many Christian. I've heard many different perspectives, from the atheist comparing monkey hamlet to abiogenesis and why they don't compare, to a teacher making a statement like "and this complexity in simplicity is a reason most mathematicians beleive in God".

[DawnBat]

Don't get me wrong. I enjoyed the diversity of beliefs at my old school. It's just that only two or three of the teachers actually gave a thought for their students. All the others were rigidly dogmatic, and if you don't agree, they don't bother to even try and explain things to you. You're just wrong. That's all.

I'm not saying this is a standard thing. Most of the people I know and love aren't Christians, but they take the time to talk things over. But teachers at my former college were just like that. No time for alternate opinions, no time to explain why it's thair way or the highway. You agree with them, or SLAM.

Oddly enough, I never had problems in courses with the hard sciences. Only Philosophy, Sociology... the subjects that I think should be debated more thoroughly.

The students were great. My friends at work were great. But the teacher is God Incarnate, and his or her teaching is scripture, and if you question it, no more shiny grades.

[Jin-Roh]

I just started at Azusa Pacific University. I suddenley find myself with surplus of APU related materials. I.e the sweatshirt my mom got me, the liscense plate frame and t-shirt and old english teacher got me, an APU canteen..

I'm taking:
Exodus/Deut
Foundations of Christian Ministry
Contempary Christian Thought
Introduction to Literature
University Chior and Orchestra with some voice lessons to make me sing better.

I'm enjoying my Chior experience so far. Its kind of nice since if the director hadn't drafted me in, I would be doing nothing music related right now.

[Tfbandie]

Just found a neat little fact, In my experimental physics class, which is basically a lot of indepth labs, the main textbook for the course was written by "Mr, Wizard" of the old Tv show. Just to think he taught me physics when i was 6 and now he's teaching me physics when I'm 21. kinda cool :smile:

[Xavier]

That's cool... :smile:

[anthrogirl]

Mr Wisard?!?! very cool...

i'm enjoying my classes so far...although i am speaking Chinese with a french accent (french was my previous foreign language)

it's just wierd...

[Tfbandie]

Hey guys! just wondering how this semester is looking for everybody.

I've had a complete shift in classes from hardcore math and physics to mostly education courses. Classes are completely different and it took me a while to adjust to the style after being in the very organized and punctual science courses to more laid back style of class. And I'm observing middle school math classes which is fun. This week (thursday and friday) I even get to teach 6th graders about factor trees :smile:

[Rubia Warren]

I'm taking this semester a college composition class (which surprisingly I am enjoying (I got off on the wrong foot with my professor by arguing with her on the second day of class over a really crummy article we had to read and she told me if I didn't like it, I could leave :blush:) We made up after that and the class is going realy well for me.
I am also taking Human Physiology, American Labor History, and Techniques In Textbook Reading.

[Tfbandie]

Cool stuff, one of my classes is "literacy in education" and we've talked a lot about importance of teaching kids how to read textbooks and how different it can be from novel-reading. Especially for me coming from a science view it's really important as some of those textbooks can be far too dense. It's been a cool class learning different strategies to help read textbooks.

[markporter]

I've got finals coming up next term, so nearly finished now....oh the excitement of impending revision.

[anthrogirl]

I am taking:

Integrative Medicine/Systems Thinking (grad course)
Health Systems
Film and Health

probably the best term I've had in my 10-yr college career.

ag

[DanielleJoy]

i'm pretty much taking way too many english classes so that i can graduate next may. i'm an english major, linguistics concentration, possible sociology minor if i have time

Brit Lit to 1600
Brit Lit 1600-1900
American Lit to 1900
Structure of English
Great Ideas in Science
Intermediate French

[Tfbandie]

i'm pretty much taking way too many english classes so that i can graduate next may. i'm an english major, linguistics concentration, possible sociology minor if i have time

Brit Lit to 1600
Brit Lit 1600-1900
American Lit to 1900
Structure of English
Great Ideas in Science
Intermediate French


Good stuff! I've got room for one or two more electives before I graduate next year, and think a good literature or history of literature would be great to deviate from my strict regiment of math and science course. That being said, the "Great ideas of science" course sounds very interestign to me, How is that course structured? is it a look at the historical aspects and effects of some of the key ideas?

[DanielleJoy]

Good stuff! I've got room for one or two more electives before I graduate next year, and think a good literature or history of literature would be great to deviate from my strict regiment of math and science course. That being said, the "Great ideas of science" course sounds very interestign to me, How is that course structured? is it a look at the historical aspects and effects of some of the key ideas?

I find later Brit Lit the most interesting, if you're thinking of taking a literature course. I thought the same thing of Great Ideas, but its geared toward humanities majors, which i am, but i've had a lot of science classes in high school and college. nearly everything we've talked about has been a review from either college chemistry or high school physics. i thought it'd be more of a history of science course, actually.

[Tfbandie]

I find later Brit Lit the most interesting, if you're thinking of taking a literature course. I thought the same thing of Great Ideas, but its geared toward humanities majors, which i am, but i've had a lot of science classes in high school and college. nearly everything we've talked about has been a review from either college chemistry or high school physics. i thought it'd be more of a history of science course, actually.


ahh, kind of a bummer. At y school we have a "philosophy of science" course which I hope to take next year as well, sorta put all I've learned in some framework.

If I squeeze in literature I'd probably not do American stuff at this point, So either the british or maybe even go distant culture and study asian, african, or middle east literature. Of even better a course on all literature pre-1600. That way can learn about the seeds of ideas that have grown up in each region and can better understand how each culture operates.