August 29, 2002

Class Notes: First Week Edition

The first week of class has produced the following observations, some serious, some not:


  1. Scheduling - My weekend begins on Wednesdays this semester, at 9pm. I'm taking 5 classes, all 3 hours at a time on Monday thru Wednesday. The first week was interesting: I like getting all the information at once as I feel like we really get beneath the skin of the subject in three hour classes.

  2. Scheduling2 - Conversely, every three hour class needs a break. I hope these breaks continue. I'll be disappointed if they don't. Thats all I have to say about that.

  3. Olney Hall - Olney Hall contains the coldest classrooms I've ever been in. Evidently they were once used to store frozen foods and sides of meat during the heyday of the early eighties. It was when enrollment picked up that they had to convert the meat lockers and walk in freezers back to classroom space.

  4. Journalism - My journalism professor looks like Danny Devito, if he wore a hairstyle from the 80's rock group "Nelson." I find it hard to concentrate on the assignments because of this fact, and also due to the use of computers with internet connections in the curriculum.

  5. Shady Basement - Just living here makes me feel "shady." I kinda like being "shady." I still don't know the full implications of being "shady" though - does being RA of the "Basement Boys" make me their role model? Am I required, as part of my job, to be as "shady" as possible? Should I take "shadiness" to the extreme? Or should I model non-"shady" behaviors for the betterment of myself and my residents. My mind wanders such things as I stare at my Midieval Lit professor's earring.

  6. Autobiography - I get to write my Autobiography this semester for class. It will be entitled "All of This Is So Vague As To Be Meaningless: An Autobiography of the Literate Life." I like my title. More on this later.

  7. New Kiosk in the Food Court - The new kiosk in the food court is supposed to be international cuisine. Instead it roughly translates to "La Salle Food Services attempts to do Mall Food Court International Kiosk Rather Badly." Its Chinese this week. Think "Lion King" sitting in the fridge for 2 weeks, then reheated and cooled down again after being dropped in the middle of 20th Street by the delivery boy.

  8. Philosophy - My personal philosophy for the semester can be summed up in one bumper sticker slogan: "Practice random acts of kindness, and senseless acts of beauty." Its not really a departure from previous semesters, but it just kind of sums everything up really well. Kindness and beauty. The rest is cake.

Anyhow, let the weekend begin.

Posted by Matthew at August 29, 2002 12:55 AM
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