alexthegreater (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} alexthegreater) wrote,@ 2007-09-03 21:08:00 |
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Alex updating? That's unpossible!
It's amazing how quickly it seems that time slips by when you look back at it's wake. It's been a while since I've updated this thing - it always seems to keep drifting away like that. Well, in any case, a good deal has happened since I last posted.
I'm back in Tallahassee now, back at FSU for another year of school. I don't really much know if I care all that much about it anymore, but I suppose it's something to do that I don't hate. So far, this year is going a bit better than the last. At least my housing situation is much more comfortable. I'm living in an off-campus apartment with Jon as one of my roommates. Not only is this place much nicer structurally, much roomier, no longer resembles a soviet prison, etc, it also means I am no longer living with Zombor. *shudder* Man, was that guy creepy. This place even ends up being the same price (after utilities) as living in the on-campus apartments, so it's a much better set-up overall.
Classes-wise, right now I'm taking American Civil War (with Jim Jones as professor: this guy is an incredibly good lecturer, makes the class turn into super-informative-story time). I'm also taking a course on how to teach history, but we haven't done too much yet so I can't really comment on it. I'm doing a one-on-one reading seminar with Professor Stoltzfus, so that I can increase my breadth of knowledge when it comes to modern Europe. I just have to read a ton of books and write about them, nothing too hard there. Finally, I have a few hours each week in the World War 2 Institute, an archive on campus that collects all sorts of personal accounts about the war. Now this one looks like it will be a ton of fun. I also have 17 hours a week in the computer lab, but it's fairly easy stuff, and if I don't have many interruptions on a given day, a chance to get some reading done. So, overall my course load is looking pretty good.
I've been trying to get out a bit more recently, been trying to meet new people and all. I think it's going rather well. I spent the weekend hanging out with Jason and Sara, two people I recently met online. It was a lot of fun, and I hope to do so again soon.
Oh yes, and I did decide on a name for the car: I went with Shrike, as it is also a designation for an American naval WW2 dive bomber, so it would have been colored blue. Also, Shrike sounds cool. Well, I suppose that's enough for now. Maybe I will write up another update in a few days with some more of my goings-on. For now, I have to get back to my reading.
It's amazing how quickly it seems that time slips by when you look back at it's wake. It's been a while since I've updated this thing - it always seems to keep drifting away like that. Well, in any case, a good deal has happened since I last posted.
I'm back in Tallahassee now, back at FSU for another year of school. I don't really much know if I care all that much about it anymore, but I suppose it's something to do that I don't hate. So far, this year is going a bit better than the last. At least my housing situation is much more comfortable. I'm living in an off-campus apartment with Jon as one of my roommates. Not only is this place much nicer structurally, much roomier, no longer resembles a soviet prison, etc, it also means I am no longer living with Zombor. *shudder* Man, was that guy creepy. This place even ends up being the same price (after utilities) as living in the on-campus apartments, so it's a much better set-up overall.
Classes-wise, right now I'm taking American Civil War (with Jim Jones as professor: this guy is an incredibly good lecturer, makes the class turn into super-informative-story time). I'm also taking a course on how to teach history, but we haven't done too much yet so I can't really comment on it. I'm doing a one-on-one reading seminar with Professor Stoltzfus, so that I can increase my breadth of knowledge when it comes to modern Europe. I just have to read a ton of books and write about them, nothing too hard there. Finally, I have a few hours each week in the World War 2 Institute, an archive on campus that collects all sorts of personal accounts about the war. Now this one looks like it will be a ton of fun. I also have 17 hours a week in the computer lab, but it's fairly easy stuff, and if I don't have many interruptions on a given day, a chance to get some reading done. So, overall my course load is looking pretty good.
I've been trying to get out a bit more recently, been trying to meet new people and all. I think it's going rather well. I spent the weekend hanging out with Jason and Sara, two people I recently met online. It was a lot of fun, and I hope to do so again soon.
Oh yes, and I did decide on a name for the car: I went with Shrike, as it is also a designation for an American naval WW2 dive bomber, so it would have been colored blue. Also, Shrike sounds cool. Well, I suppose that's enough for now. Maybe I will write up another update in a few days with some more of my goings-on. For now, I have to get back to my reading.
