14 November 2007

*Falls on the floor with dust rising up*

Ok so I realize I have been MIA for a good long time now, please forgive me. But just so you know, it was for good causes I swear. First news, after a couple weeks of anxiety and all the joys that come with that word, I finally took the GRE and....GOT a 1300! Yay... So that stress out of the way I looked back at school and realized that yes, I still had to complete this semester with good grades and not lose my cool in the process. Where is that cool anyway?
Working my way through classes, funny enough the classes I anticipated loving I actually truly dislike and the classes I thought were going to be boring have actually been fascinating. Funny how that works sometimes. Rundown of classes for this semester:

Evangelical America: This is by my all-time favorite professor and I absolutely adore it!!

Friendship, Benevolence, and Love: This has been interesting, not what I expected but definitely not a waste. We concentrate on different philosophical views of love and benevolence throughout the ages, with a strong focus on how religion plays a role in it.

Human Memory: hmmm....also not what I thought. I anticipated loving this class, but have come to find it dull. The material is interesting, I suppose, but the professor is crazy and not in the good way. I am beginning to believe you have to be crazy to teach in the Psych department.

Media and Religion:BAD BAD and Good.....yes there is a good in it. The material, the material is interesting, if you are taking a social anthropology class on south-central Africa, otherwise not so much. The class description implied an interesting look into the way religion has been turned into a commodity in current day. We just NOW, in November, got into that. Until now it's been completely out of the realm of the students taking the class (as we are all either religious studies or journalism majore) The professor has a very thick accent and teaches like we already understand, frustrating to say the least. Funny though, somehow I'm doing well in that class which after the first lecture I was not anticipating.

Social Psychology: I LOVE this class and I don't think it's necessarily the material, but the professor makes it so much better. He is very unique and fun to listen to. Just goes to show, a good Professor makes all the difference in the world.

SO that's all my classes...going on. I am now thinking, as in the last month that I may go into Speech and Hearing Pathology for grad school. Works with kids everyday, all kinds of kids, plenty of jobs, and interesting. So there ya go. But now the issue is actually getting into a school. Because of premed awfulness my GPA is not as high as I'd like it to be, may end up taking a year of working and classes working toward that grad degree before actually getting into a school, but we'll see. Right now, I still need a third recommendation for applications.