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For once I decided ahead of time
Sep. 15th, 2011 06:03 pmAfter some back and forth on my classes, I've finally settled down to my thesis, phonetics, plant evolution, and human evolution. Japanese has, sadly, been left behind. After not doing any Japanese last weekend, and then panicking because I was supposed to write an essay for Tuesday that I didn't do, and after not turning in the homework on Monday, and after missing class two days in a row to go to the dentist ... it just didn't seem worth it. If Japanese is going to be that big of a headache all term, it's not worth it. I don't want to spend that much time learning to write anyway, and it meets every single day.
So basically, sad but pretty much inevitable.
On the other hand, that means that means that I am currently only taking three classes, because my thesis hasn't started yet; and one of those classes is Human Evolution. The class must be filled with freshmen, because the professor thinks we're all idiots. I can't decide whether that's a good thing or a bad thing; it is definitely too low level for me. Hopefully it will just be this beginning section, where we cover basic evolution and genetics.
Anyway, this basically means that all my classes so far are easy, and I am actually ahead on the reading. This is actually encouraging, because it means not only will I (theoretically, anyway) have more time to work on my thesis when my advisor gets back, but I also might not actually be totally crazy when I think that I might want to study evolution in grad school. It depends a lot on how my thesis goes, and how the Year of Staring at Fossils goes (hopefully it will happen!), but I am encouraged by this admittedly short test period for me, studying evolution.
In actual news, I went to a talk yesterday by the authors of Stealing Rembrandts, and, in typical me fashion, asked a lot of questions, so one of the authors decided to give me a free copy of the book. Yay! It'll be like reading about White Collar, just ... real, and probably not so high-tech!
So basically, sad but pretty much inevitable.
On the other hand, that means that means that I am currently only taking three classes, because my thesis hasn't started yet; and one of those classes is Human Evolution. The class must be filled with freshmen, because the professor thinks we're all idiots. I can't decide whether that's a good thing or a bad thing; it is definitely too low level for me. Hopefully it will just be this beginning section, where we cover basic evolution and genetics.
Anyway, this basically means that all my classes so far are easy, and I am actually ahead on the reading. This is actually encouraging, because it means not only will I (theoretically, anyway) have more time to work on my thesis when my advisor gets back, but I also might not actually be totally crazy when I think that I might want to study evolution in grad school. It depends a lot on how my thesis goes, and how the Year of Staring at Fossils goes (hopefully it will happen!), but I am encouraged by this admittedly short test period for me, studying evolution.
In actual news, I went to a talk yesterday by the authors of Stealing Rembrandts, and, in typical me fashion, asked a lot of questions, so one of the authors decided to give me a free copy of the book. Yay! It'll be like reading about White Collar, just ... real, and probably not so high-tech!
