Mandatory School Blog

So, college has been going for two weeks now, which is time enough for me to make an assessment of how my classes are, so it's time for a life update: school edition.

I'm taking only 4 classes - a light load for me, but necessary since I'm running out of classes I can take and have to stretch it out another semester.

First off, Mondays and Wednesdays at 9AM, I've got Physical Geography. The teacher is the same guy who taught my Geology class last semester (and the one I'm taking this semester). That's the main reason I'm taking the class. *laughs*
It's good so far...if it weren't for the map quizzes, it would be an easy class, in fact. Unfortunately, we've got lots of countries and stuff to memorize, so that bumps it up to the medium hard category.
Love the textbook. It's by National Geographic, so it's full of beautiful pictures.

Then in the evening on the same days, I'm taking Fundamentals of Baking. No, I'm not a culinary student - I'm just taking it because it sounded interesting.
We're taking a long time to get anywhere, though. The last couple classes have been spent wandering through the first chapters of the text. Rather boring, and the teacher doesn't know her information. She's using someone else's notes.
We're supposed to be making rolls today, though. We'll see. If nothing else, I'll get food out of the class. *laughs*

On Tuesdays and Thursdays at 10:30 AM, I have Physical Geology. So far it seems easier than Historical Geology was...maybe it's just because I'm familiar with some of the concepts already. There's about half a dozen of us students from last semester's Geology class, but they're all taking the later lab, so I'm all by my lonesome in the 12PM lab.
We're currently studying minerals, preparing for the mineral exam coming up in a few weeks. I hope its easier than the fossil one. I only got a 95 on that one. *sigh*
The textbook for this class is wonderful, too. I'll probably keep it instead of the Historical Geology book.

I'm taking Western Civilization online. I never got to take a world history class in high school because we moved. In Idaho, where I had my freshman year, American history was taught in 9th grade and world history was 11th. In Florida, where I graduated, world history was 9th and American history was 11th. I ended up taking American history twice - it wasn't until the middle of the year, when the teacher started teaching manifest destiny, that I realized that I'd heard all this information before. *laughs*
Anyways. Western Civ online...it's okay so far. Got a test in a couple weeks.
I have to write a paper on Isaac Newton. Could be worse - the student a couple higher on the list than me got Machiavelli.

Finally, I have a kind of unofficial class. I took Spanish last semester and learned nothing. I need to take Spanish 2 before we leave, so I don't have to buy a different book up at ISU. The Spanish 2 class that has the good teacher is ahead of where the bad teacher left off. Therefore, in order to take Spanish 2, I have to learn enough Spanish not to fail.
Dad very kindly set up the Rosetta Stone program he gets free through the military for me so I can use that to learn. It's really very good...I think I'm going to go down the list. Start with Spanish, move on to Japanese, Italian...*grins*

So, those are my classes this semester.
A mix of easy and hard.
We'll have to see how it all turns out. ^^