The heat is on.

September 19th, 2003 by MrLuxuryFashionGuru

When classes first started, I thought: hey, this isn’t so bad…  my math class is covering complex numbers and has a English professor, which is nice, the first chapter in the textbook for Chem 15 looks ok, and the lectures are only one hour long (versus the 1hr 40min lectures in Rj).

Now I’ve changed my mind.  The second math lecture was much less interesting than the first one, mainly because the professor wasn’t trying, I felt.  He mumbled, he spoke to the board, he ran through the math so quickly, and they refuse to give notes (which means students sacrifice comprehension for comprehensive handwritten notes).  The only reason why I got it at all was because we’d covered all the material in Math C, AND I had my Rj notes for complex numbers with me during the lecture for reference.  I almost felt sorry for the other students in the room.  But then again it could just be me.

But Chem 15!  The Wednesday lecture was just one big impenetrable morass of nuclear orbitals, angular momentum and stationary nodes, and the material’s not covered in the textbook, so I can’t even read up on it there.  I’m just glad they posted the slides as well as the video of the entire lecture online, which allows me to run over the material multiple times in an attempt to decipher the stuttering, rambling, slightly disorganised professor.

I’ve decided that an hour is a long time for a lecture.  In fact, already it’s almost time to attend the next lecture.  I must get up early to read through chapter 2 of the chem textbook, after which I shall read chapter two of the econs textbook.

On a cheerier note, I was admitted into my second-choice seminar (FS46p: Human Rights), which is reportedly taught by two very highly-esteemed faculty members (one from the Kennedy School of Government, the other from the School of Public Health).  I’m also auditing (ie attending lectures and screenings but not section – I don’t have to do homework or take exams) a cool class called Screening Modern China, a cultural anthropolgy class offered by the Chinese department on Chinese film.  It’s in English, which is a bit of a letdown, but the professor is excellent, and the material is fascinating.  I figure it’ll be a good break from the other science-y classes I’m taking (Tu, Th 11), plus Xin Wei is taking this course for credit, so I have company (and I can ask her econs questions too 🙂

In other news, I’m trying out for crew (for which I’ll most likely be the cox’n), I’m gone for Common Casting (the big combined all-at-one-venue theatre audition), and I’m probably going to comp for FM, the weekend magazine of the Crimson.

Busy, busy, busy.  Goodnight.

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32 Responses to “The heat is on.”

  1. flora Says:

    hi jason~!! *wave!*
    actually i’ve found my way to this blog quite some time ago, juz tt i’ve never left any msg *schmile*
    it’s great hearing about all your “happening” activities!! but gosh the lectures do sound very scary!! all that math and chemistry seem soooo far away…haha the rj notes do come in handy after all!
    okie will drop ya a mail soon..keep up with all the updates yah? meanwhile stay happy, and take care!! =)

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