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School has begun, and it looks like the schedule which I created for myself the months ago will hold water and not overload me too much as I try to get the last drips of good out of my four years of education.
Latin 201- The Aeneid- May I just pause a moment to indulge my deep fangirlishness? ARMA VIRUMQUE CANO, MOTHERFUCKERS. This class is roughly on the subject that Latinists never stop talking about- how awesome Virgil is, and how much we love Latin. This is exactly what I needed to be incredibly geeky. I am well pleased. I need to be a bit more baddass about my translation, tho.
Greek 102- The second semester of Greek, which I miraculously passed last semester, is at the same ungodly hour four days a week, but the professor this time seems to be far more comfortable in her own skin than my last one. We are having fun, I am doing my homework, and I am enjoying myself. There are, just as a reminder, only four people in the class, and thus the pace of the teaching is rather faster than the professor is used to. This is because, in a class of FOUR, when one person slacks off, it shows. Oh, dear lord, how it shows.
German- 389- The Berlin Republic and Globalization. This is looking really, really fun. No high-faluting literature, but a fair amount of pop writing from the era after the fall of the Berliner Mauer. I know most of the people in the class, and none of the books. I really need to get working on reading it- I find I can read a sentence in German fairly easily, but I don't retain the information from it as easily as if it were in English.
Greek and Roman Religion- I am slightly disappointed by this class, but that's more to do with format than with subject matter so far. The professor has a distinct fan club, but this is my first class so I am not yet part of it. I am not sure that I will ever be part of, actually. The professor is clearly smart and competent, if unwilling to use technology, but the format of the class is more plain lecture than I usually get in my classes these days, and I am less into it than I thought I would be. Also, while the professor is indeed funny and charming, there is a practiced nature and slight arrogance to his witty asides that I find slightly personally off putting. Of course, I need not like the man to learn from him, and the topic is really, really interesting as well. This looks to be one of the more reading heavy of my classes.
Book Arts- I am terribly pleased with this class in a way that I am unable to fully explain. We're doing printmaking and some art-book binding, and I am looking forward too it just a little too much. It puts me in contact with large amounts of high quality paper on a weekly basis, and I am content. Our first assignment is a short run of printed broadsides of our own choosing and composition. I have selected something from Peter Pan, which I will add below. I am enjoying it immensely.
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Latin 201- The Aeneid- May I just pause a moment to indulge my deep fangirlishness? ARMA VIRUMQUE CANO, MOTHERFUCKERS. This class is roughly on the subject that Latinists never stop talking about- how awesome Virgil is, and how much we love Latin. This is exactly what I needed to be incredibly geeky. I am well pleased. I need to be a bit more baddass about my translation, tho.
Greek 102- The second semester of Greek, which I miraculously passed last semester, is at the same ungodly hour four days a week, but the professor this time seems to be far more comfortable in her own skin than my last one. We are having fun, I am doing my homework, and I am enjoying myself. There are, just as a reminder, only four people in the class, and thus the pace of the teaching is rather faster than the professor is used to. This is because, in a class of FOUR, when one person slacks off, it shows. Oh, dear lord, how it shows.
German- 389- The Berlin Republic and Globalization. This is looking really, really fun. No high-faluting literature, but a fair amount of pop writing from the era after the fall of the Berliner Mauer. I know most of the people in the class, and none of the books. I really need to get working on reading it- I find I can read a sentence in German fairly easily, but I don't retain the information from it as easily as if it were in English.
Greek and Roman Religion- I am slightly disappointed by this class, but that's more to do with format than with subject matter so far. The professor has a distinct fan club, but this is my first class so I am not yet part of it. I am not sure that I will ever be part of, actually. The professor is clearly smart and competent, if unwilling to use technology, but the format of the class is more plain lecture than I usually get in my classes these days, and I am less into it than I thought I would be. Also, while the professor is indeed funny and charming, there is a practiced nature and slight arrogance to his witty asides that I find slightly personally off putting. Of course, I need not like the man to learn from him, and the topic is really, really interesting as well. This looks to be one of the more reading heavy of my classes.
Book Arts- I am terribly pleased with this class in a way that I am unable to fully explain. We're doing printmaking and some art-book binding, and I am looking forward too it just a little too much. It puts me in contact with large amounts of high quality paper on a weekly basis, and I am content. Our first assignment is a short run of printed broadsides of our own choosing and composition. I have selected something from Peter Pan, which I will add below. I am enjoying it immensely.
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