Good news!

[icepixie]

Apparently I am a GIANT DORK and only just now realized that I have to take just two courses next year, not three. That means I can drop or audit one of the two I signed up for next semester! HOORAY!

Of course, now the question becomes...which do I keep? I still need another 600-level course, which would argue for the George Eliot seminar (so I won't be leaving that requirement to my last semester), but I'm very intrigued by the 500-level poetry criticism course--which would also be applicable to my thesis. Hmm. Decisions, decisions...

(Also, YAAAAAAY I'M NOT GOING TO GO CRAZY NEXT SEMESTER YAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYY.)

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[tarzanic.livejournal.com]

YAY! :D

So, wait, does your thesis work count as a large number of credits?

[icepixie]

Yes, my thesis counts for the equivalent of one class each semester next year, or 6 credit-hours. I somehow had it in my head that you could only replace one class with it. (We didn't have these credit-hour things at Kenyon. We did things by half-units. That may have been what confused me.)

Yay!

[tarzanic.livejournal.com]

Oh, cool! I'm used to credits: 12/semester for full-time, 15/semester being pretty standard, 120 needed for undergrad, and 30-60 for Master's. If I may ask, how did half-units work?

[icepixie]

A half-unit was equivalent to three credit-hours at normal institutions, so from there the math works out much the same. You had to have two units (four classes) per semester to be considered full-time, though most everyone took a bit more (I tended to do 2.25, with choir as a fourth of a unit). You needed sixteen units to graduate.

[sleepingcbw.livejournal.com]

(Half a unit = four hours, actually. That's how I got up to 32 hours senior year without dying. ^_^)

[icepixie]

I always thought it was three--in the sense that a "credit-hour" means, well, one hour fifty minutes/week of class. Right? Although I always thought it was odd that we just took four classes per semester standard when everyone else was taking five.

That's how I got up to 32 hours senior year without dying. ^_^

FREAK.

[sleepingcbw.livejournal.com]

It's supposed to mean that. I guess Kenyon just figured... its classes are harder than anyone else's? I dunno.

[icepixie]

How very strange. (Although for the record, Kenyon's classes are waaaaay harder than anything here.)

[sleepingcbw.livejournal.com]

Huh. I should take an English class here and see if that holds true. :)

[icepixie]

You should! The 400-level I'm taking this semester reminds of something between a 200- and 300-level at Kenyon. (For the undergrads, I mean. I as a grad student did more than they did.) Even the graduate courses here aren't more reading or much more writing than a 400-level at Kenyon, but the quality is expected to be much better. As it should be, I suppose.

[sleepingcbw.livejournal.com]

Hrmm. There's a grad seminar on narrative theory! (There's also a survey-of-all-theory-ever class, but it conflicts with topology, which is actually relevant to my degree.)


Even the graduate courses here aren't more reading or much more writing than a 400-level at Kenyon, but the quality is expected to be much better. As it should be, I suppose.

I never took a 400-level, somehow (other than the various Klein 400s, which don't count). That makes sense, though.

[icepixie]

Taaaaaaaake iiiiiiit...

I never took a non-Klein 400-level either, but I heard about them from other people. And to be honest, McMullen's 300-level class required more writing than this 400-level. So did all my 300-level classes in England.

[sleepingcbw.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Jen was profoundly unimpressed by her 400s, and she did a semester that was all 400s.


And to be honest, McMullen's 300-level class required more writing than this 400-level.

Ahhh, McMullen.

[sleepingcbw.livejournal.com]

"Yaaaaay I get to drop a class"? You are the opposite of a giant dork.

Anyway, run don't walk away from George Eliot.

[icepixie]

"Yaaaaay I get to drop a class"? You are the opposite of a giant dork.

Giant idiot, then? Besides, it's not so much "yay dropping/auditing a class" as "yay I won't be insane by December."

Anyway, run don't walk away from George Eliot.

I...actually liked Adam Bede. And this class is Eliot in context, which means lots of fun Victorian philosophy and science and cultural artifacts and whatnot. Plus, Middlemarch and/or Mill on the Floss are on the reading list, and I don't know if I'll manage them without help.

[sleepingcbw.livejournal.com]

Besides, it's not so much "yay dropping/auditing a class" as "yay I won't be insane by December."

The crazy last month is the best part of the semester! Everyone's loopy and strange. One of my classes yesterday involved a student composer claiming her next piece was going to have a percussion part for cow tongue. Then we decided we should use my students to determine whether or not tone-deafness was related to our ability to detect predators (or prey) by sending wildebeasts after my kids who can't sing. It's good times!


I...actually liked Adam Bede.

BAH

And this class is Eliot in context

BAH

which means lots of fun Victorian philosophy and science and cultural artifacts and whatnot.

BAH

[icepixie]

The crazy last month is the best part of the semester!

It tends to be the part of the semester where I contemplate either dropping out of school or killing myself. Both seem equally sane at the time. I really don't like the end of the semester.

BAH

Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah. *draws hearts around Victorian stuff*