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SC Update

Now that I've had two full weeks of classes, let me tell you how they rank:

World Literature: Simply the best. Class (and online) discussions are exciting, even vibrant. We are tracing love through literature (currently reading the Odyssey).

Greek: Foreign languages are exciting. 'nuff said.

Foundations of Servant Leadership: It meets only once a week, but the people truly make up this class. It's filled with the honors students, and there are some truly great people in this class. We just took the Gallup strengths quiz, and I got completely different answers from when I took it two years ago. Oops.

Basic Philosophical Concepts: The only thing that saves this class is the interesting readings. So far we've covered basic logic and metaphysics. Classes are a toss-up: sometimes interesting and sometimes dull.

Introduction to the Old Testament: The book we're going through is fairly interesting (The God of Promise and the Life of Faith by Hafemann), and the lectures are always different material than the book. However, the material sometimes seems too elementary (which is expected - this is a required class).

Speech: Textbook reading and lectures... lectures over the textbook reading... like, the same thing, only in lecture format.

Introduction to Computers: Can this even be called a class? Really...

Here are some pictures I took last night:


My desk area


My roommate playing his harmonica


My whole room


My closet


My stash of sparkling water and playing cards


My self

Comments

Unknown said…
like the pic of your Self! And the cards! We should prolly play some briscola sometime. And check that award we won! They made it look just like a dictionary from the library!
Unknown said…
Yeah, my Self is always getting in the way of all of my good pictures. How I long for the days of 5 player briscola. Even 3 player briscola would satisfy this weary soul. How about that award? Here's what I say: "Clickety-click-click Booya!"

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