Hello!
Well, I'm into my third week of my second semester here. It was kind of weird at first when we met the new freshmen and realized we weren't the newest of the new anymore. We have about 13 new ward members who all just started this semester or moved into our ward from other housing.
My new classes are all a lot more interesting than my classes last semester, which is definitely a good thing. I was going to take 17 credits this semester, but I ended up dropping my biology class since it was all about birds, and I also dropped my philosophy class since I'd had to correct my professor on his grammar exercises about five times in the first day. :) So I dropped that and added just the regular English 150 course for freshman, and now I have a pretty cool professor. He's really young, so he speaks informally and is a lot more personable than the rest of my professors.
My most boring class is anthropology 101. My professor speaks like all those typical anthropology professors you see in TV shows. Sort of that lilting, droning voice, complete with unnecessary hand gestures. Somers, McKenzie, and I are usually asleep during those lectures. :)
Right after anthropology in the same auditorium is American Heritage, which both Somers and I have with Alden. The professor for that class is pretty funny, and he likes to show clips from The Office and Lost to demonstrate his ideas. :)
My computers and the humanities class is really interesting, and I'm learning a lot in that class. I feel slightly sacrilegious in that class though, because we're using these beautiful, 21 inch, brand new iMacs, and I have to run a windows operating system on them... blech! :)
Well, this past weekend was quite fun. It was our first 3 day weekend of the year, I was supposed to go to Idaho with Julie, but I had to cancel because when I dropped my philosophy class and added english 150, I had to write a paper and read about 150 pages by tuesday, plus my homework for my other classes. So I stayed home and Friday and Saturday we all made sure that during the day we weren't noisy so that we could get all of our work done. However, on Friday morning I woke up feeling horrible because I'd caught the cold that Somers and Mallory had, so I was sick and feeling miserable and doing a bunch of homework, which... was not fun.
Saturday morning we had a big french toast breakfast, complete with scrambled eggs and orange peach mango juice. Then we did a bunch of studying, and McKenzie and Dustin came to pick us up in the afternoon to take us ice skating, which was a lot of fun. Krista had ice skated like, once before in her life, go figure--she's the one from Idaho where they have ponds to skate on and whatnot. So she was clinging to my arm the whole time, which kinda was throwing me off balance. I ended up falling twice cause she was attached to my arm. :)
On Sunday I was awake for a grand total of three hours during the day... The only reason I woke up later was because Somers woke me up to tell me that McKenzie was going to be home in about twenty minutes and she was going to take us to her place for the night. So I quickly packed and got ready, and we went to McKenzie's house in Payson. Her parents were on a cruise, so she had the house to herself for the weekend. Dustin came over and we played card games and watched Disney movies late into the night, having a much needed break. Monday morning we took our time getting ready, had a delicious french toast breakfast, and watched a few episodes of the Office before we piled into Mack's car and drove back to Provo to see Madagascar 2 in the dollar theater. Unfortunately, we forgot it was a holiday, and the show was sold out, so we ended up just going back to our apartment.
We ended up watching an entire season of the Office this weekend, because we'd study all day and then watch the Office all night. We got Krista absolutely hooked on the show. :)
It was nice having a three day weekend. Our next one is the weekend of Valentine's Day, and then we don't have any more breaks until the end of school. :( But we get out so much earlier than everyone else that it makes up for it :)
-Cate
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Monday, January 5, 2009
Back To School
Hello!
Well, Christmas break is over and I'm back at school. I finished my first day of my second semester classes, and it was pretty nice to be back in class, I must say. Break was fun and relaxing, and it was exciting to see people in Fremont again.
I came back to Provo on Thursday night, and Julie, Alan, and I stopped at the U of U for a quick little tour of their GORGEOUS campus. I'm so jealous that BYU doesn't look like that. BYU's buildings are actually... pretty ugly, I'll admit. U of U had some gorgeous old buildings, along with a lot of historical stuff that was cool to hear about (Alan loves facts, so he was spouting them out as we walked around campus about which army came through exactly what spot and who stayed in each house, etc).
And I'd been so excited to go back to the snow after hearing about these storms and how it snowed like crazy when we left, and I get there and.... its gone. Pretty much all of the snow was gone or had turned to inches thick layers of ice. Apparently a few DAYS before I got back the weather decided to suddenly get really warm and melt everything. It was so warm that on Friday Mallory and I were walking around with short sleeves in the snow.
So Mallory got back Thursday afternoon before I did, and Julie came back Tuesday. Krista came back Friday and then Somers and McKenzie came back Saturday, but McKenzie only dropped in for a few minutes before she left, and then she came back Sunday night.
Today for my classes I only had anthropology, american heritage, and biology. I have anthropology with Somers and McKenzie at 10, and then at 11 is american heritage in the same room, and I have that with Somers and Alden. Then at 12 I have bio, and I found out that Sarah Topham and David Grimm are in my class. David just now came up for the winter semester and has been working at home, and I've only seen Sarah a few times around campus, so it was nice to see them again.
My biology class is a little... weird. My professor hates big classes and ours is about 300 students. He also loves birds... and so we had three required books to buy for the class, ALL of which were on birds. Bird tracks, bird sounds, bird feathers, bird species... EVERYTHING about birds. There was no book required on biology in general... just the bird books. And one of the bird books makes me feel like I'm four because it has a little button on the side that makes bird noises and it reminds me of those little kid books with the buttons that have the picture that corresponds to whatever's on the page and they press it to hear the noises. That's.... basically one of my textbooks. We also have no tests in that class, which is sweet... instead he gives us crazy essay assignments in which we have to answer questions such as: What's in an egg? or What is a snake? And he wants us to be creative, write poems, and whatnot. He also has a piano in his... biology classroom... and he started playing Music of the Night from Phantom of the Opera to demonstrate how he would describe a bat. He started singing the lyrics, "Nighttime sharpens, heightens each sensation. Darkness stirs and wakes imagination.... Slowly, gently night unfurls its splendor..." etc. And he was like, that's how I would describe a bat! That class... is sure to be interesting. He also wants us to have a field trip every friday during our class. We meet every monday, wednesday, and friday, and he said he wants for almost every friday to be a field trip where we go look at birds or something... I don't know. He's a little... odd. :)
My other two classes seem fine though. American Heritage will be okay so long as I keep up with the readings and study a lot for the tests.
In about a half hour we have FHE, and its the whole ward tonight because we have 13 new members of our ward, so tonight is just a mingling night so we can meet them.
Tomorrow I don't have a class until 1:35, which is pretty sweet. I've got philosophy 150 and CHum 200 tomorrow, which I'm pretty excited about. I think those will be my two favorite classes this semester.
Hopefully things go well tomorrow!
-Cate
Well, Christmas break is over and I'm back at school. I finished my first day of my second semester classes, and it was pretty nice to be back in class, I must say. Break was fun and relaxing, and it was exciting to see people in Fremont again.
I came back to Provo on Thursday night, and Julie, Alan, and I stopped at the U of U for a quick little tour of their GORGEOUS campus. I'm so jealous that BYU doesn't look like that. BYU's buildings are actually... pretty ugly, I'll admit. U of U had some gorgeous old buildings, along with a lot of historical stuff that was cool to hear about (Alan loves facts, so he was spouting them out as we walked around campus about which army came through exactly what spot and who stayed in each house, etc).
And I'd been so excited to go back to the snow after hearing about these storms and how it snowed like crazy when we left, and I get there and.... its gone. Pretty much all of the snow was gone or had turned to inches thick layers of ice. Apparently a few DAYS before I got back the weather decided to suddenly get really warm and melt everything. It was so warm that on Friday Mallory and I were walking around with short sleeves in the snow.
So Mallory got back Thursday afternoon before I did, and Julie came back Tuesday. Krista came back Friday and then Somers and McKenzie came back Saturday, but McKenzie only dropped in for a few minutes before she left, and then she came back Sunday night.
Today for my classes I only had anthropology, american heritage, and biology. I have anthropology with Somers and McKenzie at 10, and then at 11 is american heritage in the same room, and I have that with Somers and Alden. Then at 12 I have bio, and I found out that Sarah Topham and David Grimm are in my class. David just now came up for the winter semester and has been working at home, and I've only seen Sarah a few times around campus, so it was nice to see them again.
My biology class is a little... weird. My professor hates big classes and ours is about 300 students. He also loves birds... and so we had three required books to buy for the class, ALL of which were on birds. Bird tracks, bird sounds, bird feathers, bird species... EVERYTHING about birds. There was no book required on biology in general... just the bird books. And one of the bird books makes me feel like I'm four because it has a little button on the side that makes bird noises and it reminds me of those little kid books with the buttons that have the picture that corresponds to whatever's on the page and they press it to hear the noises. That's.... basically one of my textbooks. We also have no tests in that class, which is sweet... instead he gives us crazy essay assignments in which we have to answer questions such as: What's in an egg? or What is a snake? And he wants us to be creative, write poems, and whatnot. He also has a piano in his... biology classroom... and he started playing Music of the Night from Phantom of the Opera to demonstrate how he would describe a bat. He started singing the lyrics, "Nighttime sharpens, heightens each sensation. Darkness stirs and wakes imagination.... Slowly, gently night unfurls its splendor..." etc. And he was like, that's how I would describe a bat! That class... is sure to be interesting. He also wants us to have a field trip every friday during our class. We meet every monday, wednesday, and friday, and he said he wants for almost every friday to be a field trip where we go look at birds or something... I don't know. He's a little... odd. :)
My other two classes seem fine though. American Heritage will be okay so long as I keep up with the readings and study a lot for the tests.
In about a half hour we have FHE, and its the whole ward tonight because we have 13 new members of our ward, so tonight is just a mingling night so we can meet them.
Tomorrow I don't have a class until 1:35, which is pretty sweet. I've got philosophy 150 and CHum 200 tomorrow, which I'm pretty excited about. I think those will be my two favorite classes this semester.
Hopefully things go well tomorrow!
-Cate
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