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first day(s) of classes and it hurts so good!

time for the evaluations of first impressions:

linguistics 110: introduction to phonetics and phonology, professor ian maddieson.
he's a weird one. he's british, but he's lived in america for thirty-some-odd years, and he's been on the ipa council since like ever. the class so far just kinda drags, but hopefully the material later on becomes challenging enough so that our asses get kicked.

linguistics 130: comparative and historical linguistics, professor gary holland.
this man is such a little kid in how he teaches, it's insane. he has some interesting ways of soliciting information and responses from his students -- we studied old english and gothic on the first day of class -- so of course, it's very eye-opening when the things he's talking about i grew up learning in tagalog.

statistics 25: introduction to probability theory and statistics for engineering, professor bas kleijn.
he has a great accent. and the math involved really is just practical math and is very much applicable to the field i'm in, so more power to this class. (i'm gonna gauge he's about thirty, but he dresses like a twenty-year old. it's awesome. he's, uh, hip.)

city and regional planning 115: urbanization in developing countries, professor ananya roy.
you know a lecturer is good when on the first day of class, when she's only describing "the spirit of the course," that everyone applauds and wants to stay in. when i'm glued to her speaking instead of my usual routine of doing the daily cal crossword, you know she's a good teacher.

journalism 98: directed group study in journalism, heuristic squelch.
stay tuned for this one. the heuristic squelch may find me on its staff later this semester. (especially awesome since i'll be the import from hardboiled.)

band's just fine.

and yay spending $550 on books and readers! (i have just guaranteed my being in debt at least until i turn thirty-five.)

woop-de-woop, eighteen months.

posted by Open Source Food @ 11:26 AM