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Apr. 9th, 2012 01:13 amSo, I just realized that the semester is more than halfway over and I never talked about my classes. This is my last semester, graduating on May 19th. This semester is laughably easy after last semesters hellishness. Oh! On that note - Capstone professor? Is apparently being let go. In part because of our Capstone reviews. Other professors in the history department have apologized to us over how that class went. His other classes weren't going to well, either, evidently.
Anyway. This semester. I'm taking 5 classes. Mostly because I need 15 credits to have enough credits here to qualify for Graduation, since most of mine were transferred in. One is a stupid online class. They're called IDIS (Identity and Difference) classes. 2 of them were required but I filled them both with stuff from my old school. But it was an easy option and an online one at that. So now I have to type of responses to song lyrics and write papers about Glee episodes. So very stressful. I did, however, get all caught up on Glee, though.
My other pointless class is Adolescent Lit. This is teh only class I have with anybody I know, so there's that. All we do is read books and kind of talk about them in class. Redwall, Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban (:D), Ender's Game, Fruits Basket (lol, hello anime phase!), Slam!, Dancing on the Edge (I'd never read this one before and it actually kind of sort of made me cry). We're on To Kill A Mockingbird now. And then there's two other books. And we have a project to do at some point between now and the end of the semester that we don't have much intel on yet.
Psych classes are the ones I actually need. Research Methods is with the same Prof as last semester's Animal Cognition & Behavior class. That class is pretty boring. Just how to set up experiments and such. We have to do a group project (HATE THEM) and write the first two sections (Intro and Methods) of an APA paper. I could do that in like 3 hours, but it's so much more involved with more people (T_T). Plus, half the class are idiots and are slowly driving the prof insane.
Child Development is cool. The prof is fun and we get to do fun things as a result. We got to color and do puzzles on day. We've learned how to keep babies quiet and signs of maltreatment and watched Super Nanny and yeah. Tests are easy and no papers!
Last is Drugs & Human Behavior. This is probably the best class this semester. The first day of class we went through the intro course stuff and then the prof told us to get up and make a circle and we played a giant game of 'Never Have I Ever...' which I had learned how to play like 2 days prior. I won? Which I guess is bad, but whatever. The prof likes telling stories (though sometimes he repeats them) but he gives crazy amounts of EC. Presently I have 130%? Got 10 EC points for our group winning a game about the ASAM levels of care, got another 20 from 'Name That Drug Tune' which was a bunch of 60's-70's-80's rock music interspersed with some country and rap. Tests are awesomely easy and only one more paper for that one!
As for outside of class stuff - I love my friends. I'm going to miss them. Some of them are moving to grad schools out of state (IL, TN), others are staying here and the rest are spread out across the state. Makes me sad. We've been doing a lot of stuff for history club. Making shirts and doing bakesales. We've done a conference already - I presented a paper on Revolution Era Anti-British Propaganda and I'm presenting it again in 2 weeks. We're going to a club in Morgantown on Friday and maybe to DC on Saturday. Maybe Gettysburg or Antietam at some point, too. Doing Relay 4 Life stuff, setting up banquet and graduation stuff and yeah.
It's all going so fast.
Anyway. This semester. I'm taking 5 classes. Mostly because I need 15 credits to have enough credits here to qualify for Graduation, since most of mine were transferred in. One is a stupid online class. They're called IDIS (Identity and Difference) classes. 2 of them were required but I filled them both with stuff from my old school. But it was an easy option and an online one at that. So now I have to type of responses to song lyrics and write papers about Glee episodes. So very stressful. I did, however, get all caught up on Glee, though.
My other pointless class is Adolescent Lit. This is teh only class I have with anybody I know, so there's that. All we do is read books and kind of talk about them in class. Redwall, Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban (:D), Ender's Game, Fruits Basket (lol, hello anime phase!), Slam!, Dancing on the Edge (I'd never read this one before and it actually kind of sort of made me cry). We're on To Kill A Mockingbird now. And then there's two other books. And we have a project to do at some point between now and the end of the semester that we don't have much intel on yet.
Psych classes are the ones I actually need. Research Methods is with the same Prof as last semester's Animal Cognition & Behavior class. That class is pretty boring. Just how to set up experiments and such. We have to do a group project (HATE THEM) and write the first two sections (Intro and Methods) of an APA paper. I could do that in like 3 hours, but it's so much more involved with more people (T_T). Plus, half the class are idiots and are slowly driving the prof insane.
Child Development is cool. The prof is fun and we get to do fun things as a result. We got to color and do puzzles on day. We've learned how to keep babies quiet and signs of maltreatment and watched Super Nanny and yeah. Tests are easy and no papers!
Last is Drugs & Human Behavior. This is probably the best class this semester. The first day of class we went through the intro course stuff and then the prof told us to get up and make a circle and we played a giant game of 'Never Have I Ever...' which I had learned how to play like 2 days prior. I won? Which I guess is bad, but whatever. The prof likes telling stories (though sometimes he repeats them) but he gives crazy amounts of EC. Presently I have 130%? Got 10 EC points for our group winning a game about the ASAM levels of care, got another 20 from 'Name That Drug Tune' which was a bunch of 60's-70's-80's rock music interspersed with some country and rap. Tests are awesomely easy and only one more paper for that one!
As for outside of class stuff - I love my friends. I'm going to miss them. Some of them are moving to grad schools out of state (IL, TN), others are staying here and the rest are spread out across the state. Makes me sad. We've been doing a lot of stuff for history club. Making shirts and doing bakesales. We've done a conference already - I presented a paper on Revolution Era Anti-British Propaganda and I'm presenting it again in 2 weeks. We're going to a club in Morgantown on Friday and maybe to DC on Saturday. Maybe Gettysburg or Antietam at some point, too. Doing Relay 4 Life stuff, setting up banquet and graduation stuff and yeah.
It's all going so fast.
