The rundown (Rock-free edition)

Monday, October 6, 2003 » school thought

On the verge of the third week of class, I thought I would write up some impressions from each of my classes, as I am known to enjoy doing:

Chinese 1: Ah, my language for the year. I was originally sort of afraid that this class would be entirely made up of real, live Chinese people, which would make things a bit intimidating, but that is not the case. The professor is great, and despite seeming less organized than last year's German courses (go figure), the class moves along very steadily. I wish we could learn more words, since at the moment we probably know about 15 or 20 (I'm only counting the ones we can read and write), but if we had to learn words any faster, my brain would probably ignite. I can already feel the neural friction building just from looking through the character workbook. Also, I can't figure out how to type some of the tone markings on the keyboard, and I don't think there's a way to declare a character set for specific blocks of text via CSS. Actually, there may be. I just haven't looked it up at all.

Print 110: It looks like we're starting out with learning Illustrator, which is not as effortless of a step from Freehand as I thought. Also, we're going to have to wrestle around with the linotronic film machine again, which isn't something I'm looking forward to since the last time I had to do that it tore a hole out of my wallet about the size of a hundred dollar bill. Hopefully we'll be all digital after that, though. I'm looking forward to trying out that three-dollar-a-page megaprinter. On a more tangental note, when asked by Mr. Matjas if we liked any movies we saw over the weekend, one student said he did, although the ending had a little too much of the machina dos equis.

Psychopathology is Fridlund, so you know what to expect. It manages to be interesting despite the 9:30 start. However WE HAD TO WATCH A LOBOTOMY VIDEO OH JESUS.

I will speak of German 187 at a later point, since I don't think I can sufficiently express my thoughts about the class in the 60 seconds remaining before one o'clock.

Good night!