School Bells

[Basil]

The professor said it was fine and I could make it up as long as I brought her a note from my employer explaining why I couldn't make the test.

It's really going to suck when you have to get your parents to sign your report card.

[papayahed]

Well, that shouldn't be too much of a problem... if you know how to fake your boss' signature!

Lucky for me I was with my boss, I only see him about once or twice a year.

It's really going to suck when you have to get your parents to sign your report card.

My biggest concern is the Parent-Teacher conferences. It's going to cost a fortune to fly my Mom down here.

[Scheherazade]

How is everyone doing this term?

I cannot get motivated. I have my first deadline in May and then have to hand everything in by mid-June but I am just doing what I am supposed to be doing.

:-/

[Niamh]

assignment due next week and i havent even started it. *gulp* Last two weeks have been a total nightmare and now i'm seriously behind.

[papayahed]

How is everyone doing this term?

I cannot get motivated. I have my first deadline in May and then have to hand everything in by mid-June but I am just doing what I am supposed to be doing.

:-/

So far so good, I missed one test and did well in another and because our shutdown was postponed I'll have ample time to study for the next two.

[Scheherazade]

Good luck Papaya and Niamh!

I have finally persuaded myself at least to sit down and have a look at the tasks I need to complete for this term. Not as bad as the first term I need to write about 10K words but I need to do two major researches to write two different reports.

I'd better start reading, in short.

[Niamh]

I've decided to do an Open Degree. Was torn by my love of Literature and my want to continue Archaeology, so with the help of Kilted i worked out a whole Open degree combining Literature, Archaeology and Heritage Studies.

[Mariner]

After spring break I'm taking College Agebra, Art History, Physical Science, and working for the newspaper.

I'm kinda excited for science. I haven't taken it in a couple years so I'm hoping it'll be fresh and exciting. Science is not a strength of my but it's a different subject from any I've taken so far at college so I hope I'll stay interested for the entire quarter.

Sometimes, though, it's hard to see a light at the end of the tunnel. It doesn't feel like I'm working towards anything when my degree is still a few years away. I wish I could just fast-forward to my senior year.

[Hurricane]

Sometimes, though, it's hard to see a light at the end of the tunnel. It doesn't feel like I'm working towards anything when my degree is still a few years away. I wish I could just fast-forward to my senior year.

SO TRUE. It'll pay off in the end, though. Only 809 days until I graduate and the hard part starts...

In more upbeat news, I finally get to take more than one majors class next semester, and managed to luck out with two of the "must get" professors in the history department.

[Mariner]

SO TRUE. It'll pay off in the end, though. Only 809 days until I graduate and the hard part starts...

In more upbeat news, I finally get to take more than one majors class next semester, and managed to luck out with two of the "must get" professors in the history department.

Are you a history major? I wanted to do history for the longest time until I realized one of the only things you could do with a history degree is teach, and I don't want to teach high schoolers history.

[Hurricane]

Are you a history major? I wanted to do history for the longest time until I realized one of the only things you could do with a history degree is teach, and I don't want to teach high schoolers history.

I am a history major. I was stuck choosing history from among other choices like (of all things) Naval Architecture, Oceanography, and Aerospace engineering. I ended up with history because I figured I'd be better off getting all As in classes I loved rather than all Bs and Cs in classes I liked.
Besides, after a year of helping people with papers and understanding history, I realized I really like teaching people and helping them learn. One of the most satisfying moments I've had this year was a good friend of mine getting an A on a paper that I'd worked with him for hours on.
So, personally, I'm not too worried for my future employment prospects. As it goes, my long term employment goals drift between history professor and rogue Alaskan bush pilot, so check in twenty years from now and see what I say then.

[Scheherazade]

I've decided to do an Open Degree. Was torn by my love of Literature and my want to continue Archaeology, so with the help of Kilted i worked out a whole Open degree combining Literature, Archaeology and Heritage Studies.

Sounds like an interesting choice. Good luck

[Niamh]

Sounds like an interesting choice. Good luck

Thanks!
heres my plan!

Oct 09- May10
Arts Past and Present (60 level 1)

May10- approx Oct 10
Start Writing Fiction (10 level 1)
Archaeology: The Science of Investigation (10 level 1)

Nov 10- Feb 11
Heritage? Whose heritage? (15 level 1)

Feb 11- Oct 11
Approaching Literature (60 level 2)

Oct 11- May/Jun 12
Global Heritage (60 level 2)

first Summer break (woot!)

Nov 12- Apr 13
World Archaeology (30 level 2)

Overlap with (gonna be a tough few months!)

Oct 12- Jun13
19th Century Novel (60 level 3)

Summer break no 2!

Oct 13- Jun 14
Childrens Literature (60 level 3)

= 365 points towards BA (hons) Open Degree (360 needed)

I think because i'm only doing Lit subjects at level 3 i like to look at it as majoring in lit with minors in Archaeology and Heritage.

[Mariner]

I am a history major. I was stuck choosing history from among other choices like (of all things) Naval Architecture, Oceanography, and Aerospace engineering. I ended up with history because I figured I'd be better off getting all As in classes I loved rather than all Bs and Cs in classes I liked.
Besides, after a year of helping people with papers and understanding history, I realized I really like teaching people and helping them learn. One of the most satisfying moments I've had this year was a good friend of mine getting an A on a paper that I'd worked with him for hours on.
So, personally, I'm not too worried for my future employment prospects. As it goes, my long term employment goals drift between history professor and rogue Alaskan bush pilot, so check in twenty years from now and see what I say then.

That is sound judgement. I don't think I have the patience for teaching right now, maybe someday though.

Any particular area of history you like best?

[Hurricane]

Any particular area of history you like best?

I like European and US history better than anything else, but I'm pretty open to anything. I used to hate Asian and Middle Eastern history, but now that I've sort of been "forced" to learn about them, I like them a lot more, though still not as much as Europe or the US.