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8/29/04. Categorized under
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I’m sorry that it’s been so long since I’ve posted anything. I’m turning into “that guy” who has a blog but does nothing with it. I’ll do what I can to correct that.
Anyway, I’ve got to admit that the last few days have been very good. I am really liking my Spanish class. Since I’ve taken Spanish before, and because it uses our alphabet, it will be much easier at first than Greek would have been. I can’t say that I like the whole 9:05 AM start time, or the fact that it’s my only class on Friday, but on the plus side I do like my professor. He reminds me a lot of a good high school teacher, which sometimes I miss.
I had to rearrange my schedule to avoid taking a class at 8 AM, so I had to switch sections in my Financial Markets class. So now I’m taking that class at 11 AM with (guess who?) Brian, one of my roommates from Italy. I’ve got to say that I think that’s pretty cool. With all the thousands of people on campus it could have been easy for me to never have a class with anyone from that trip, and even easier for me to not have a class with one of the two other guys (Paulo graduated).
I’ve still only seen two people from the program: Brian and Jill. I’ve talked to Jessica, but everyone else is hiding. Or maybe I’m not looking in the right places.
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8/25/04. Categorized under
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Quote of the Day: “The first law of economics is scarcity. The first law of politics is to ignore the first law of economics.” — Dr. James Gwartney, my legally blind microeconomics professor, on the upcoming election
So here is the odyssey that is my stupidity. I’ve been thinking over the past few weeks that it might be smart of me to try to double major. Why? Well, I’m a Religion major, and I wasn’t really sure what kind of job market that would provide for me. I want to work full time in the ministry, but I also want to be able to put food on the table. I was already a Business minor, and considered becoming a Business major.
Today I decided to put my plan into action. Having already deciding that Greek was too hard I dropped it and added College Algebra and Computer Literacy for Business majors (I already took the one for non-majors, but heck, this is a whole new major we’re talking about). I already had a language requirement met with Micro, Macro, and Stats, so I was good there. I then found out that I could CLEP out of College Algebra and jump right into Precalc for Business majors. So I began to study my brains out this afternoon for that test. You see, the drop/add period ends Thursday at midnight, so I’d have to take the CLEP test on Thursday and add the class after passing the test (assuming I passed it). Keep in mind this all occured in one day!
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8/24/04. Categorized under
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I’m in the middle of my second day of classes as we speak. So far I’ve been two Greek twice, Microeconomics once, and a beginning Finance class.
I am in way over my head in Greek. You have no idea. My professor had us fill out cards on the first day, and one of the things she asked for was our previous foreign language experience. Today she said that she’s happy to see that most people have taken either Latin or German, because that will be very helpful. I haven’t taken either of those, and I haven’t taken any foreign language since my freshmen year of high school (Spanish). On top of all this, I found out that if you take Statistics, Microeconomics, and Macroeconomics that that will fulfill your language requirement. I took AP Stats in high school, took Macro last spring, and I’m taking Micro this semester. I’m going to see my adviser tomorrow to make sure that my Stats will be good enough (got a 3 on the AP test; hope that’s high enough). As much as I want to take Greek, I want to have a good GPA too. And we’re not learning New Testament Greek either; it’s classical Greek (a good 300 years newer). I’m not sure what I’m going to do yet. I still need to pray about it, but if it were entirely up to me I wouldn’t be in that class.
In about an hour I’ll be going to my Christian Apologist class. I have high hopes for this class. I’ll let you know how it goes when I get back today.
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8/20/04. Categorized under
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So it’s been a long time since I’ve updated. That’s because it feels like my arm is about to fall off. Okay, so maybe it’s not that bad. But it is still pretty sore.
I have arrived in Florida! I’m back in good old Tallahassee. Monday was basically a travel day. I checked into Rogers Hall Room 423 without any trouble. The only bad thing about Monday happened at night. I didn’t have time to go to my storage locker before it closed for the day, so I didn’t have anything except for what I packed from Connecticut. Most importantly, I didn’t have any sheets or towels. Combined with the fact that every time I turned over onto my shoulder I thought I was going to die, it made for a very long, uncomfortable night.
Continue reading ‘I Am The One-Armed Man’
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8/15/04. Categorized under
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So barring anything terrible happening in the next few hours I should be on my way back to Florida. I got my flight changed for free because of all the mess caused from Hurricane Charley. I’m still not sure who’s picking me up at the airport though. Kyle told me he’d find someone and that he’d let me know while I’m in Atlanta. I just don’t like stuff like this to be left to the last second.
My arm still hurts, but it’s better. I still can’t move it too much, but I guess that’s to be expected. As for my brain, well no one knows why I have seizures to begin with, so I really couldn’t tell you. I’m back on my meds, so I guess I’m good to go.
Continue reading ‘Let’s Try This Again’
