So I finally sat down and finished registering for the last semester of classes I will take as an undergraduate. There are a couple credits still in the air, but this is what I have locked in:

The English class will suck I am sure, but it is the lesser of the evils I could sign up for. Hopefully I will get to read some good books; I heard we may read Le Morte d’Arthur which sounds fun. The teacher isn’t supposed to be bad, and I will approach this class with as good of an attitude as I can muster.

The middle east class will probably be decent. I’ve heard good things about the professor, and frankly in this day and age I feel as if knowing a bit about the middle east is almost my responsibility. Originally I was slated to take Chinese thought, and I sooo glad that I was able to get into this class instead. The professor for Chinese thought sounds like a prick (Disclaimer: That opinion is not from personal experience, just word of mouth).

I was debating between Latin and Spanish for a while, but Latin won out on account that my brief exposure with the Spanish department left me with a bad taste in my mouth. Nothing personal, just that I got the feeling that my personality wasn’t they type they deal with well. Latin 2 will be difficult since I wasn’t exactly stellar when I took Latin 1 almost three years ago, but, but on the flip side, it has been seven years since I took Spanish, so that would have been worse in that regard.

Math 470 will be with Dr. Mayfield, whom I genuinely like and admire as a person, but am far from a fan of as a student taking one of her classes. I always feel as if I am doing pointlessly large amounts of busywork in her classes. I suspect this will be exacerbated by the very nature of the class, but it might also be mediated by the fact that I am interested in the material.

The opera class was a last minute add. I needed a aesthetic appreciation art/music/lit core requirement, and planned on fulfilling it by testing out of music appreciation, but that just didn’t seem to work out. Hopefully the class will be more listening and music theory based as opposed to literature based. I think I will enjoy learning a bit about music from Dr. Lester.

I still need to sign up for a 1 credit PE course with Dr. Soong, but I should be able to do that tomorrow morning without a problem. The other credits that are floating around the netherworld are: electronics independent study, theory of equations independent study, and my honors project credits. Unfortunately I only have 2.5 credits left I can sign up for without paying extra (which I can’t afford) and the above classes total 5 credits. The three scenarios I can foresee being possible are: (1) I take the honors project and just take the other classes off the books, (2) I drop the honors project (do it on my own time), and get credit for the two independent studies, (3) Drop the history of math class (also means dropping the math major), and take all the above classes. The first option is the most likely, though probably the most stressful and least desirable for me. The second option would piss off Dr. Stromberg, and the third option would piss-off the entire math department. Tomorrow this will get dealt with one way or another.

Tomorrow will mark the first day of my last semester at Hood College!