Classy
I registered for classes today at HBU. The entire process was relatively painless, as all the returning students and freshmen registered weeks ago, and it’s a small school to begin with.
After looking through the Course Bulletin, I’d decided I would like to enroll in Web Design and Intro to Philosophy. When I got there, however, they told me that all the Philosophy classes were full, and that the Web Design class had a prerequisite that was only offered at HBU. I told my advisor that I’d taken CS classes before, but she said, “No, those are all programming classes. The prereq is an applications class, you know, like Microsoft Word and Internet Explorer.”
“Can I test out of it? Because I know how to use Word.”
“No. Have you taken a class in computer applications before?”
“Um, does middle school count?”
*advisor is not amused*
So those were out. Most of the other classes I’d picked out as backups were either full or in conflict with an SAT class I’ll be teaching on weekday afternoons.
…and I’ll have to finish this later, as I suddenly find myself feeling incredibly, terribly nauseous. I’m a big worrier, especially about my health, and after chest pain, nausea is the most frightening, awful feeling there is. I think it’s because I hate throwing up so, so much–I’m almost crying just writing about it. Ugh. I think I’ll go sleep on the bathroom floor.
the next day…
ANYWAY. I don’t know where that came from, but eventually I fell asleep (in my bed), and now I feel better.
What I was going to say last night is that we (my advisor and I) searched and searched for morning and evening classes that were still open, and after ten or fifteen minutes we found two that looked reasonable: a History class on Modern China 8–10 T-Th, and an English “Special Topics” class on The Chronicles of Narnia 4–5:55 M-W. I registered for those, jumped through various other administrative hoops, and got out of there in just over an hour and a half.
I’m very pleased with the courses I ended up with—much more so, actually, than I was with the ones I’d chosen on my own. The Narnia class wasn’t even in the catalog, but my advisor said that the prof was an expert on C. S. Lewis, yada yada yada…so that’s all very exciting.
BUT, as I realized this morning when I tried to put my new classes into my planner, for the next several weeks I’ll be teaching a class over an hour away from HBU on most Mondays and Wednesdays that starts at 6. FRUSTRATION. I really really really want to take this class (my other options are World Civilization 1600–present and US History to 1865—ick), so I’m going to see if I can massage it a little and work out a combination of occasional subs for my SAT class and ditching my HBU class early a few times. Keep your fingers crossed for me.
P.S. I switched to open commenting for a reason. Show me some love, people!
Tags: school
September 3rd, 2005 at 5:40 pm
First post! Ever! \/\/00T!
The Narnia class does sound pretty interesting. Hopefully you’ll spend most of the semester on the first half of the series, where the stories were stories, rather than preachy allegories.
It really sucks that you couldn’t pass into the Web Design course. I hope the school isn’t that inflexible in all aspects.
September 3rd, 2005 at 9:06 pm
You should like that modern china class assuming competency of the prof, etc. Mao is absolutely nuts, but pretty interesting in strange perverse ways, just like most dictator types.
hoe you get that cs lewis class and yeah, those other options just suck – you’ve already taken those classes w/ Pilling and James
so i guess you could sleep through them and get A’s if need be… but they’d be yawners.
September 3rd, 2005 at 9:08 pm
correction – Mao WAS absolutely nuts – he is most assuredly dead in a masoleum in Beijing.
September 4th, 2005 at 5:47 pm
The Narnia class sounds interesting … I hope you can work it all out. Right now I am hoping that the prof for the class that I want lets me in, otherwise I am not really sure what I am going to do.
September 4th, 2005 at 10:14 pm
Okay, I couldn’t stand to see no comments, so I’m taking your blog’s comment virginity.
September 5th, 2005 at 3:49 pm
If you need any help with the China stuff, i’m an expert. I love talking about it too, so whenever you want to talk about the crazy crap that goes down over there, come holla at me.