On Saturday night, I returned to Lafayette and its decimeters of snow, subzero windchill and miles of bumpy paver sidewalks. Good then, that Audrey and Sherry were there to pick me up in exchange for some furniture assembly and enchilada removal. (Thanks again.) I was back in town to attend the beginning-of-semester meeting for the anatomy TAs on Sunday night and secondarily to help the Grille prep for the first opening of the semester during the afternoon. The rest of Sunday evening was devoted to trying to get Suspend to work on Bender.
The first day of the semester for any class, the professor follows several set paths regardless of what the subject is.
- Here is the syllabus. Hopefully, you remember X. We’ll go into more detail on X later on…
- Here’s an example of how my field of study has real-world applications! Look!
- I matter! Really!
- …
- Please don’t drop this class.
My schedule is slightly less awesome than I’d like. MWF of fall semester, I had two morning classes and two afternoon classes with a four hour break, which is somewhat inconvenient for napping. This time it’s three morning classes in four hours with highly optimized geography, all finished by 12:20. Biochem II, Genetics and Immunology. Respectively, hard, easy, legendary.
Regrettably, I am forced to use a meal swipe on what would normally be a lunch with Chris and Dylan on breakfast, just so I can focus for those three classes and not zone out and start on my screenplay again in lecture as I did last fall.
Tuesdays and Thursdays present a similar problem. I’m TAing at 9:30 for two hours, then 75 minutes of Principles of Public Health at noon, with a short lunch break until 3:00 Social Psych.
I’m actually somewhat of a fish out of water in Immunology. In what is actually a class reserved for Professional pharmacy program students, I snuck in with signatures and overrides. I was quite intimidated to be surrounded by my former TAs and some of my more successful lab partners. It was kinda like upgrading from Honors to AP classes. As the more committed students are retained and others turned away, you end up with more and more high-quality classes with stimulating questions, more relevant discussion and dream-shredding test curves.
Which scares me. I’m beginning to consider reading the book.
first!
Chris, that is disgusting. Do not lower a literary masterpiece such as Tommy’s blog to such levels where “First!” is an acceptable comment. I will not passive sit and watch as your malicious keystrokes destroy this beautiful piece of art. You should be ashamed of this treachery you have committed against your friend.
Also, bump.
fourth!
Fifth!