![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
The first week of classes is over!
Well, the last (hopefully last, mind) details have been worked out of my Fall 2005 Schedule (the one that includes work) and I went back and updated the post. Buzz renewed love for me by giving me more hours (yay, money!) so I'm up to 4 shifts for Buzz (though until a hole gets filled, it looks like I actually have 5 shifts for him) and 4 shifts for Marlys.
And then I have classes and...and... *sobs* I have no life. Except I kinda actually do! I'm heading out this afternoon to a party thing with Kristen and I should stumble home sometime Sunday. Look - social life thing! And I had even more of apretend social life yesterday by going out to dinner (re: sushi) with Meredith in celebration of the first week of hell classes being over.
Of course, now that the first week of classes is over, I can happily give my views. First class, on Monday, is with Professor Smith and ~happy sigh~ I love her. As I mentioned earlier, she hails originally from Edinburgh and I've known her as long as I've been here at GMU. Her accent is strong (it makes me happy to hear it, honest) and she regularly goes home over the breaks and happily chats about tea in the middle of class. Her class is a summary over the concepts we've spent four years learning from our degree program (NCC) and honestly, she's just a pleasure to have as a professor.
Tuesday I've got Cambridge. If you've been around my LJ long enough to have read through entries last Fall semester, you'd have heard about him - Darren Cambridge, the Ev0l Bad Professor of NCLC348. I'm not going to say that I'm retracting a single word I thought about him because I'm not going to even consider doing that, but he looks like the bad reviews from his classes shook him deeply. He's changed his entire methodology of how he teachs and the way he slants his lectures but he's still a horrible public speaker. Although I feel for him a bit (and he made an effort to connect personally with his students this time, which was a change) I'm not going to change my initial conceptual opinion o fhim. He was a horrible professor last time I had him and he was a horrible professor in the Spring semester as well.
Wednesday and Thursday were work days. So I'll skip over them (I haven't had a chance to work with the new mentors yet so I can't exactly give them an opinion and review on their skills yet) and head straight to Friday. Drawing. Again - if you've been with me a long time, you might remember me bitching about a Drawing professor who said "Anime isn't art" which led to me dropping the course and switching into AVT104 where I met![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
maria_chan and siriusjazz. So naturally, I stepped into class with a load of tepidation and worry that this new Professor, who I'd not found anything about, would be like he'd been.
Instead, I am happy to report that my art professor is about as psychotic and crazy as my mother. She's dyslexic, has taught everything from Elementary art to teaching at the Cochran, and is a firm believer in the idea of doing right-brain left-brain exercises and drawing warm-ups. I think I'm positively in love with her and her eccentricities and positively thrilled at the chance to get the homework for her done. She's...amazing.
Lastly we come to Saturday and today's class. The professor for my web-design class is really talented and (for once) she's also skilled in the field. She's been doing web-design about as long as I have (which is a tad bit frightening...) and currently teaches only as a hobby, her day job being a government contractor for a $7 million dollar contract-thingy on a Defense yadda-yadda. Slightly interesting, except she comes off as a die-hard patriot and I've got so little patience when they rattle off about supporting the War effort, helping the Fight Against Terrorism, and how the President is right. She may have skills and ability, but I wish her head was a little less filled with propaganda.
It'll be a basic and easy class *groans* and even if she was an engaging professor for lecture, she lost me within fourty-five minutes of starting. But I'll hit myself over the head with a bat and live with it, since I need to get a good grade.
I also added He Owns Me, He Claims Me, But Wants Another (Sirius/Regulus, NC-17 *coughs* though I have it on FF.net as "Mature") to my FanFiction.net account, in keeping with my tradition of putting up stories that are thiiiiiiiis close to not being "legal" there. The story is also on my Skyehawke account and with luck, I'll be done with my web-based portal for my stories soon and get my written works on my personal domain as well.
Edit: Try saying Tripuraneni's name three times fast!
And then I have classes and...and... *sobs* I have no life. Except I kinda actually do! I'm heading out this afternoon to a party thing with Kristen and I should stumble home sometime Sunday. Look - social life thing! And I had even more of a
Of course, now that the first week of classes is over, I can happily give my views. First class, on Monday, is with Professor Smith and ~happy sigh~ I love her. As I mentioned earlier, she hails originally from Edinburgh and I've known her as long as I've been here at GMU. Her accent is strong (it makes me happy to hear it, honest) and she regularly goes home over the breaks and happily chats about tea in the middle of class. Her class is a summary over the concepts we've spent four years learning from our degree program (NCC) and honestly, she's just a pleasure to have as a professor.
Tuesday I've got Cambridge. If you've been around my LJ long enough to have read through entries last Fall semester, you'd have heard about him - Darren Cambridge, the Ev0l Bad Professor of NCLC348. I'm not going to say that I'm retracting a single word I thought about him because I'm not going to even consider doing that, but he looks like the bad reviews from his classes shook him deeply. He's changed his entire methodology of how he teachs and the way he slants his lectures but he's still a horrible public speaker. Although I feel for him a bit (and he made an effort to connect personally with his students this time, which was a change) I'm not going to change my initial conceptual opinion o fhim. He was a horrible professor last time I had him and he was a horrible professor in the Spring semester as well.
Wednesday and Thursday were work days. So I'll skip over them (I haven't had a chance to work with the new mentors yet so I can't exactly give them an opinion and review on their skills yet) and head straight to Friday. Drawing. Again - if you've been with me a long time, you might remember me bitching about a Drawing professor who said "Anime isn't art" which led to me dropping the course and switching into AVT104 where I met
maria_chan and siriusjazz. So naturally, I stepped into class with a load of tepidation and worry that this new Professor, who I'd not found anything about, would be like he'd been.Instead, I am happy to report that my art professor is about as psychotic and crazy as my mother. She's dyslexic, has taught everything from Elementary art to teaching at the Cochran, and is a firm believer in the idea of doing right-brain left-brain exercises and drawing warm-ups. I think I'm positively in love with her and her eccentricities and positively thrilled at the chance to get the homework for her done. She's...amazing.
Lastly we come to Saturday and today's class. The professor for my web-design class is really talented and (for once) she's also skilled in the field. She's been doing web-design about as long as I have (which is a tad bit frightening...) and currently teaches only as a hobby, her day job being a government contractor for a $7 million dollar contract-thingy on a Defense yadda-yadda. Slightly interesting, except she comes off as a die-hard patriot and I've got so little patience when they rattle off about supporting the War effort, helping the Fight Against Terrorism, and how the President is right. She may have skills and ability, but I wish her head was a little less filled with propaganda.
It'll be a basic and easy class *groans* and even if she was an engaging professor for lecture, she lost me within fourty-five minutes of starting. But I'll hit myself over the head with a bat and live with it, since I need to get a good grade.
I also added He Owns Me, He Claims Me, But Wants Another (Sirius/Regulus, NC-17 *coughs* though I have it on FF.net as "Mature") to my FanFiction.net account, in keeping with my tradition of putting up stories that are thiiiiiiiis close to not being "legal" there. The story is also on my Skyehawke account and with luck, I'll be done with my web-based portal for my stories soon and get my written works on my personal domain as well.
Edit: Try saying Tripuraneni's name three times fast!