First Month (or so) of the Spring Semester
By SMTDante89 3 Comments
So this past week marked the end of the first month of the second semester of my third year at college/university. Let's talk about that for a bit, shall we?
Classes
This semester I decided to take an extra class, normally I try to hit about 16 hours but I'm a bit behind so I'm trying to add a few more hours to try and get back to where I should be. This semester I hit 18. - English Grammars
- History of Ideas II (Philosophy 102)
- Survey of American Literature II (have not taken I yet)
- Advanced Technical Writing
- Feature Writing
- People and Their Social Environment (Sociology 101)
Plenty of English classes this semester, which is normal (English major with a writing emphasis) So far I haven't had too many problems in my classes except maybe the Survey course. We're working on a project in Advanced Tech. Writing that may possibly change some of the English classes we have available here. Basically, no matter what sort of emphasis you have in the English department, you're pretty much a literature emphasis because of its dominance over everything. I have a writing emphasis and have to take five literature courses (and that's not including the general studies requirements) and only two writing courses. Not sure if we will actually change anything, and even if we do, it won't benefit us in any real way, but if it can help future students, I say it's worth a shot.
Dorm-Related
This is the last semester my roommate and his fiance will be here, they graduate this semester. Kind of sad to see them go, they've been my best friends since I started rooming with him (first roommate was forced to move into a different room closer to a Resident Assistant (RA from here on out) after an incident. Not sure if I'll get a roommate as good as him after this year.I have the same Work Study job I've had for the past year now, being a desk worker at my dorm. Pretty much sit around and sell food and drinks (when available) and exchange money for quarters for students that need it. It's not a hard job at all, and it helps to buy food and other items when necessary. Not sure if I'll do this next semester though, it all depends on a meeting this week.
I'm considering being an RA next semester. It just seems like the right move for me at this point. Not really going to talk more about this until after the meeting this week.
Social
Last semester was a bad one for me. Most of my friends had graduated and others just didn't seem to want to hang out anymore. This semester seems to be much better, though. Some of the people that I didn't get to hang out with are talking to me again, so yay human interaction! Gaming
I haven't really been able to get a lot of gaming in yet. I purchased The Beatles: Rock Band instrument bundle a few weeks ago, but had it sent home instead of to campus. I finally hit the 800 song mark in Rock Band 3 last week, went and bought a lot of songs from my back catalog of music I wanted to get since the game came out last year. As for playing Rock Band 3, I haven't been able to do a whole lot of that either. Just got over some bug that's been going around campus and still have a cough, so I can't sing for long or I go into huge coughing fits. I've been putting off trying out Pro Keys since I got the keyboard at the end of last year, but renewed my interest in the instrument a few days ago. Torchlight has been taking up a lot of my gaming time these past few weeks. It's just a really fun game to play in one hour bursts. Also picked up the Penny Arcade Adventures bundle from Steam when it was on sale. I've only been able to play the first one for a few minutes and that's about it.
Roommate bought his first next-gen console, a Wii, this past week. Looking through the games he bought, there's a lot of shovelware. But he had a spare Wii Motion Plus and remote jacket that he's selling to me for $5, seems like a good deal to me.
Music
Music has probably been the single most thing that has gotten me through this past two and a half years ever since I started coming to college. It's a huge part of my life, and I love collecting CDs. Last I counted (October) I had over 200 CDs in my collection. Here's what I've added to my collection since the beginning of the semester.- Super Meat Boy 2 Disc Soundtrack
- The Rules of Hell Box Set [Black Sabbath]
- At San Quentin (Legacy Edition) [Johnny Cash]
- Twilight of the Thunder God [Amon Amarth]
- Tear It Up/Your Rules Single/DVD [Andrew W.K.]
- The Collective Calm in Mortal Oblivion EP [Abnormality]
- The Slay Stack Grows: Early Demos and Live Recordings [Slough Feg]
- Versus the World [Amon Amarth]