It's sort of like a course requirement...

Except in blog. The required "courses and professors for the semester" post.

Math for the Sciences (part 1). This course makes me cry. Because I don't understand a blessed thing. I mean, I think I like it. I just don't think I've learned any of the material up to this point. So that's an entire unit I'm already lost on.
This cannot end well.
Professor: Magid. We don't know how to pronounce it. May-j-id? Mage-d? Mag-ed? Mag-id? He's a nice enough professor. Worst Handwriting Ever. He wrote "form" on the board today--I swear it looked like "fuck"and I sat there wondering why he was writing bad words. I think I like him. He seems like a nice person. I just wish I knew what the hell he was talking about. Also my only male professor this semester.

Linear Algebra: so far.. it's not impossible. A few things I don't know. This class is a blessing because homework (while given daily) doesn't count toward our grade unless we're 'on the fence' grade wise. I imagine, once we do formal proofs, it will get harder. However, right now things are moving along in a way I understand
Professor: Wang. She's soft spoken. Well organized... kind of. Her handwriting is amazingly clear.

Introduction to Thermodynamics and Quantum Mechanics with Lab: Is exactly what it sounds like. Quantum is not too hard. It's a little difficult on a conceptual level, but once you get past that the math tends to follow. At least for most people. I grasp the concepts easily, but the math is a little harder. So far, though, I really enjoy it. The only class I'm not falling asleep in.
Professor: Lannert. I adore her. She explains things well. She isn't fussy when she messes up math. She grades our homework (first professor I've had to do that). She invents words like Isovolumetric. Definitely the most interesting in class.
Lab Professor: Bauer. He's one of those people who is clearly so intelligent his words can't keep up with his brain. Understanding and funny and mocked me a little bit for accidentally turning my computer off with my foot. He seems to work well with the small focused groups of students, and actually stays with you until the problem is solved. I, so far, enjoy lab. We write codes to graph things on Matlab. Funfun.

Introduction to Linguistics: Also enjoying this. Quite a lot, seeing as it's my only class that has no numbers in it. Most of the material is actually pretty interesting. We learned about aphasias and "animal languages" and there are many many many examples of the different ways Languages can be used and thought about and written down. See that there? That was an example of how, in any human language, sentences can be almost infinitely long. If I wasn't already doubled up with math and physics, I'd add a linguistics minor. My only class with a male student--Roland. Olin boy. Tall. Male. Not much else to say. I talk a lot in this class. Eventually, it will piss the other students off. But I will get my 10% class participation grade!
Professor: Carpenter. Jamaican professor from New York--she doesn't have much of an accent, exactly. However, you can hear the Jamaican a LITTLE bit, and the New York slips out in her vowels. She seems really nice. I'll know more about her after our first one-on-one meeting.

And that's everybody. Now I've got pizza to eat at the science center.

Remember, if you do it right, they'll never know what hit them.
L