Taking a Break
Oct. 10th, 2007 05:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kitewithfishI'm trying to finish Hinkemann before class tomorrow so that I can understand what she's talking about when we go over stuff. I have two new classes tomorrow, and they're all of them just about an hour apart on the schedule. That's just enough time for me to get home and back, but not enough time for me to actually eat something and get back for the next class. I'm thinking sandwiches will be the order of the day tomorrow. Maybe sushi if I really feel like pushing it. (There's a sushi place in the Schottentor Ubahn station that sells piece by piece, instead of just in sets. It seems like a great idea, but the pieces themselves are still fairly expensive. If you want to get a whole meal, you're better off buying the pre-made sets.)
I had one new class today, An Overview of Austrian History with Thomas Winkelbauer (his last name means "corner farmer". It's kind of wonderful.) His was the first class I've taken so far that lasted anywhere near the whole time allotted; most end half an hour to fifteen minutes earlier, and there's always at least one person who leaves a half an hour before the class ends. I'm not quite sure how the professors refrain from beating such people to death: I would help.) He seems like a good professor: one of the first so far to speak off the cuff instead of from an elaborately scripted text. This gives him a far more interesting, but also far quicker speaking pattern. He reminds me strongly of my father: same age, glasses and greying beard, T-shirt, can't express an idea without using both hands.
He also is organized: he sends out an overview of the lesson before the class, which is *wonderful* for people who need to look up words. If yesterday's Kaffee und Kuchen had not transmuted into a late dinner, I would have spent the afternoon looking over his stuff and hunting vocabulary, but sadly I did not get to reap the benefits of his brilliant use of Email. Unlike the other professors I've seen so far, he was willing to use email for big stuff (like PDF's) and had PowerPoint presentation set up for showing us maps and things. Brilliant- this sound be an interesting class. Similarly, while he had a long, long list of recommended reading, he only told us to seek out one particular book for the main guts of the class. I think we can make it what we like: he gave us another list of books per topic that we could hunt up ourselves if we want.
Anyhoo, I know nothing of the next classes I am taking tomorrow, other than that Colleen is in two of them. (I am hoping that the program will not see our overlap to be designed so that we can minimize study time, or something like that. We did happen to pick several of the same classes, but if my original schedule [or hers, for that matter] had worked out, then we would have had only one in common. As it is, I happened to figure out that some of the classes I could take to preserve my Schedule of Wonderment would be the same as hers, but we had them independently confirmed as appropriate for our majors. And, honestly, we have the same major. It would have been entirely possible for us to take all German classes together at Wellesley, if we had wanted to. It just worked out that we did not. At the end of the year, it could very much be possible for me to only take one final in common with Colleen. Anyway, I don't think it can come too much back to bite me in the butt, because all these classes got confirmed as okay before I knew Colleen was going to be in them as well.)
Anyhoo, tomorrow should be painful due to the three lectures and the early start time. All of 10am I have to be in class! My god. I am going to be spoiled for Wellesley when I get back- there's just no way for me to go back and deal with all that work. Course, here I have no idea how to deal with all my free time. It's a conundrum, truly.
I had one new class today, An Overview of Austrian History with Thomas Winkelbauer (his last name means "corner farmer". It's kind of wonderful.) His was the first class I've taken so far that lasted anywhere near the whole time allotted; most end half an hour to fifteen minutes earlier, and there's always at least one person who leaves a half an hour before the class ends. I'm not quite sure how the professors refrain from beating such people to death: I would help.) He seems like a good professor: one of the first so far to speak off the cuff instead of from an elaborately scripted text. This gives him a far more interesting, but also far quicker speaking pattern. He reminds me strongly of my father: same age, glasses and greying beard, T-shirt, can't express an idea without using both hands.
He also is organized: he sends out an overview of the lesson before the class, which is *wonderful* for people who need to look up words. If yesterday's Kaffee und Kuchen had not transmuted into a late dinner, I would have spent the afternoon looking over his stuff and hunting vocabulary, but sadly I did not get to reap the benefits of his brilliant use of Email. Unlike the other professors I've seen so far, he was willing to use email for big stuff (like PDF's) and had PowerPoint presentation set up for showing us maps and things. Brilliant- this sound be an interesting class. Similarly, while he had a long, long list of recommended reading, he only told us to seek out one particular book for the main guts of the class. I think we can make it what we like: he gave us another list of books per topic that we could hunt up ourselves if we want.
Anyhoo, I know nothing of the next classes I am taking tomorrow, other than that Colleen is in two of them. (I am hoping that the program will not see our overlap to be designed so that we can minimize study time, or something like that. We did happen to pick several of the same classes, but if my original schedule [or hers, for that matter] had worked out, then we would have had only one in common. As it is, I happened to figure out that some of the classes I could take to preserve my Schedule of Wonderment would be the same as hers, but we had them independently confirmed as appropriate for our majors. And, honestly, we have the same major. It would have been entirely possible for us to take all German classes together at Wellesley, if we had wanted to. It just worked out that we did not. At the end of the year, it could very much be possible for me to only take one final in common with Colleen. Anyway, I don't think it can come too much back to bite me in the butt, because all these classes got confirmed as okay before I knew Colleen was going to be in them as well.)
Anyhoo, tomorrow should be painful due to the three lectures and the early start time. All of 10am I have to be in class! My god. I am going to be spoiled for Wellesley when I get back- there's just no way for me to go back and deal with all that work. Course, here I have no idea how to deal with all my free time. It's a conundrum, truly.
