School decisions
Jan. 26th, 2011 07:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
javacatSchool started. I have to settle on classes. For sure I'm taking a nutrition class, if I get an add code. The main contenders are meteorology vs. physical geography + lab or both or all and a geology field trip over spring break. I hear there's a good non-mathy chem class + lab. I've looked at astronomy, geology, and human sexuality classes also.
I didn't get into this at all in Dec. and Jan., kind of a mistake, yet I am having fun in my own round-about way.
It's the same prof for meteorology and geography. He's kind of nutty. Only in Marin? Only in California? Maybe. He's 78, has 3 BSs, 2 MSs, and says he's the only ex-convict teaching in the State of Calif. Sounded like a Vietnam-era thing. He lives off the grid somewhere around Mendocino, has no Internet at his house, hearing loss in both ears from motorcycles and rock concerts, and, thanks to someone in class being the ex-wife of a former colleague of his, we also know he hasn't had a drink for 15 years, and is married for the second time to a woman with a Greek name.
His teaching style is non-linear at best. Thank god I already knew everything he was talking about, either from high school science AP classes, or last semester's bio/geo class. I don't think I could have sorted out what he was talking about otherwise. There were three people in class who had never heard the equation E=MC2 before last night (can you believe that? wow! how is that even possible?) -- they were probably very lost.
I'll go to meteorology tomorrow to see if he's more organized than in geography. Both textbooks look good (yeah, I bought yet another textbook that I might return). The geography lab that I overlooked looks good too. Prof suggested that I take geo, geo lab, meteorology, AND the spring geo field trip (aka camping for credit), and I'm seriously considering it. But I'm not sure I want to work that hard! Conflict! I was pretty humbled by all the young people working 20-40 hours a week AND taking, like, 12-16 units, though.
I'll go to meteorology tomorrow to see if he's more organized than in geography. Both textbooks look good (yeah, I bought yet another textbook that I might return). The geography lab that I overlooked looks good too. Prof suggested that I take geo, geo lab, meteorology, AND the spring geo field trip (aka camping for credit), and I'm seriously considering it. But I'm not sure I want to work that hard! Conflict! I was pretty humbled by all the young people working 20-40 hours a week AND taking, like, 12-16 units, though.