migblog

school is much more fun this time around.

it's my first fall semester as a regular cal student (last fall, i was in the extension program and took fall classes that counted towards the berkeley requirements) ever, so it'll definitely be an experience trying to handle a seventeen-unit class load along with the editor position and cal band. it's not definitely easier than last fall: this time, i have full fridays, and i'm practically taking nineteen units since i'm auditing wind ensemble.

professor and gsi evaluations are as follows:

portuguese one-oh-two. prof. donovan teaches this class, and much like the rest of the portuguese half of the spanish-portuguese department, she's very cool and relaxed. i like the pace that the class is going, and the way she teaches makes you feel comfortable speaking and reading portuguese.

spanish one-oh-two a. prof. gonzalez-reimann teaches this class, and so far, i like how he introduces things very nonchalantly into whatever it is we're talking about. he has this elegant way of inserting random tangents into pertinent conversation.

computer science sixty-one a. two professors teach this class: prof. hilfinger, the seemingly outrageously outgoing one, and prof. clancy, whom heretofore i shall refer to as "mousy." the two are a bit like laurel and hardy, only in a computer nerd sort of context. imagine an episode of abbott and costello without the gags, but with personality clashes and no students laughing just yet. and as for my gsi, i have colin dewey who used to be in the cal band. go figure, my gsi is the guy who used to go out with patty who's really good friends with jon. heh. it's like six degrees of kevin bacon.

cognitive science c1. okay, so i'm not officially in the class yet, but prof. kronfeld already said something that i would like to hold forever true: that the unification of ideas fosters cooperation and not competition, so help each other out and don't be pricks about someone else's success. the fallout was pretty bad, he had said, speaking from personal experience. plus he's got a cool german accent that rivals ah-nuld's. i've yet to get a gsi for the class (i need to get in first!), so here goes campbell again.

spanish one-sixty-one. prof. flores, this woman from spain, teaches this phonetics class. she's got an amazing southern spaniard accent (she eats her s's and says pla-tha instead of plasa when she reads the word plaza). it's very cool; i already like the stuff we're talking about because it reminds me a lot of the course material we covered in my freshman seminar last spring with prof. azevedo, with dialect and speech representation in the spanish language.

then there's the cal band and hardboiled, both passions that i cannot drop myself. the cal band is my security blanket, and hardboiiled is my self-fulfillment coming to fruition. the band schedule is already starting to hurt, which is a good thing -- it just motivates me more to become a better student this fall, and especially this fall, because i feel as if i have something to prove because i was an extension student.

this is my first fall semester at cal as a regular student, and it's going so well so far.

ah, i love the smell of tide deep clean.

posted by Open Source Food @ 11:39 PM