break

Well I am in the library taking a break from my physics homework.  The semester has kind of entered into that final crunch that happens... only a few weeks left.  It went by quick, but I think I have done exceptionally well.  At least I hope so... at least well enough to get into my major.

I was able to convince the school to take my two years of a foriegn language from junior high, so that is a relief.  I was able to hand them a sealed and signed copy of my transcript so that they could check it off and ironically the transcript didn't have my name anywhere on it... just my student ID... so they couldn't use it. Just my luck.  They did however waive the hold on my account until next semester so I'll be able to worry about it later.

Next semester will probably be my craziest semester of my college career.  Because certain classes are only taught in the spring, and in order to progress in the major at a reasonable time, my counselor has me down for taking well over 20 credits next semester.  I have whittled it down to 18-20 credits.  My schedule is Physics II for engineering, Organic Chemistry II, Biomedical Biosignals and Analysis, and Computational methods.  I have decided to forego the labs and another engineering course for another semester.  Honestly I feel like I can do it, bring it on.  I am more stressed about trying to get into my major.

This semester I am in a foundations of Business class.  I have enjoyed it immensely.  My professor has been one of my favorite professors thus far, and doing a little research on him I have found out that he is very well esteemed and a highly liked Professors at the University, and I can see why. The class counts as a Humanities credit along with a Behavioral Science credit, and is a business class, but it plays out more like a philosophy class with a "get it done" and be-all-you-can-be type of mentality.  I have really enjoyed having the opportunity to read philosophical texts from the likes of Thoreau, Emerson, Veblen, and Gailbraith.

He stated in class the other day that he will be teaching a class next semester on the fundamentals of power, and he will be using one of my favorite reads "The 48 Laws of Power" by Robert Greene as the textbook.
I was very intrigued because I have enjoyed his class already enough as it is, and I can only imagine how awesome this class in the spring will be based off of the book and his teaching style.  I asked him about it and it turns out it is an easy A solely graded on attendance... and it fits perfectly in with my schedule... AND it fulfills one of my needed Gen Ed. credits... excellent!!!  

Physics II will be my most difficult class I imagine, Organic Chemistry is always a difficult subject but I enjoy it, and Computational methods is an engineering based computer programming type of class.  It'll be difficult but its not like they teach it like it is a weed out type of class.  I'm not sure what Biosignals really entails.  

They shouldn't be too hard.... I have the 5000 level engineering courses to look forward to for being hard.