Students: What courses are you taking this year?

[Vosem]

I'm a high school junior, started this past Wednesday...

1: Study Hall
2: AP Statistics
3: AP American Government
4-5: Latin I
6: Lunch
7-10: AP Chemistry
11: English 11 Honors
12: Spanish IV Honors

Periods 1-3 & 11-12 are 45 minutes. Periods 4, 6, 8, and 10 are each 30 minutes; 5, 7, and 9 are each 10. There are always 5 minutes between periods. You'll notice each class is 45 minutes, except for lunch (which isn't a class, but it's 30) and AP Chemistry (the four AP Sciences the school offers are all 90 minutes).

[Kitteh]

I don't necessarily believe that all education in manual activities in school is worthless. Learning how to roll a joint, for example, is definitely one of the most important things you will learn in college (if you haven't already picked that up in HS, which I didn't because HS drj was a total loser).

Is there anyone left on this damned forum not committed to destroying our current way of life & instituting some random crap in its place.

anyone who doesn't realize that the way things are now sucks is even more f**ked in the head than I am, and that's saying something.

I would assume one who apparently despises working as much as you would utilize labor-saving devices such as bowls or pipes.

Those also usually either cost money (rolling paper is extremely cheap, not really counting that), which unfortunately in our society typically is acquired by work; or require work to make. It's a catch-22. c'est la vie, I guess

[H. Ross Peron]

The idiotic notion that woodshop is one of the most useful things you will learn in school, which could only be thought up by a brain severely damaged by testosterone poisoning, is a prefect representation of the why women are doing so much better in education than men nowadays.

Exactly. Unless you plan to pursue a full time career in the manufacturing industry, selecting to do courses like this despite academically rigorous courses being available is simply a sign of pure laziness and lack of intellectual curiosity in my honest opinion.
Doing "woodshop" as a hobby or as part of your extra-curricular activities at school is great, but you are wasting your life if you are doing it as an actual course. It's a lame excuse for an academic course.

And I'm still not convinced about the merits of "Art History" either.

How so? Its an academic class that enables students to art even if they don't have much skill in actually creating artwork.

[Associate Justice PiT]

     I'm a college senior now. The main classes I am taking are:

Physics 112 (Statistical Mechanics)
Physics 129 (Particle Physics)
Math 55 (Discrete Mathematics)

     I also have a one unit course to bring me up to the unit minimum:

PACS 94 (Theory and Practice of Meditation)

[HagridOfTheDeep]

FALL
The Caribbean in a Globalizing World
Human Migration
Introduction to Themes in Canadian History
Medieval, Muscovite, and Imperial Russia
American Thought and Culture

WINTER
Geography of Middle America
Aboriginal Geographies of Canada
Geography of Sustainable Food Systems
The Cold War
American Thought and Culture




I'm really wanting to change some of the Latin American ones. We'll see. My options are pretty limited.

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

Woodshop isn't necessarily something I'd go into, but really skilled craftspeople can make a lot of money.  Don't knock art just because it's art.

In fact, don't knock art period.

[HagridOfTheDeep]

Hagrid's course load makes me wish that I were still studying geography.

I'm most looking forward to the one on sustainable food systems. It's my honours seminar, and the professor is an absolute g.oddess. Her name is Betsy and she once took off her socks in lecture because her feet were hot. Need I say more? She's a gem.

[muon2]

     I'm a college senior now. The main classes I am taking are:

Physics 112 (Statistical Mechanics)
Physics 129 (Particle Physics)
Math 55 (Discrete Mathematics)

     I also have a one unit course to bring me up to the unit minimum:

PACS 94 (Theory and Practice of Meditation)

An excellent if perhaps light selection. I'm curious as to which texts you're using for your physics courses.

As for me my teaching load includes:
Calculus-based physics I: mechanics (2 sections - 200 students total)
Algebra-based physics I: mechanics, waves and heat (140 students)
I have 10 TAs to help with labs and grading of these three sections

and for fun:
Astrophysics (10 students divided between seniors and grad students)

[Lief 🗽]

As a second-year law student:

Human Rights
Federal Courts
Employment Law
Survey of American Legal History, 1600-1870

Plus I'm a journal editor which I get like 2 credits for.

[Foucaulf]

While on exchange in France I am taking the following (English course titles are verbatim, French ones freely translated):

Investigations into administrative law. The most French thing I can take: by the first lecture the professor already dissed the English and parliametary supremacy. Norms of such should be important if I choose to continue living in the Canadian benign dictatorship.

Cultural identity and democracy: multiculturalism. Norms of such should be important if I ever want to live in Quebec.

"Peuple Fiction": populism and counter-populism from past to present. The part in quotes is supposed to be a pun. Thankfully this course seems better thought out than that joke.

Another perspective on economic and social issues: the very long run. More demographic history than economics, but the former is what a lot of smart people desperately need.

Economic Policies in Emerging Market Countries – Macroeconomics of Development. This is a really fun class; lots of papers and more practical than a macro theory course.

And a French course.


Once I'm back in the States I'm thinking of doing complex analysis, numerical analysis, stochastic analysis, harmonic analysis, functional analysis and ethics.

[Associate Justice PiT]

     I'm a college senior now. The main classes I am taking are:

Physics 112 (Statistical Mechanics)
Physics 129 (Particle Physics)
Math 55 (Discrete Mathematics)

     I also have a one unit course to bring me up to the unit minimum:

PACS 94 (Theory and Practice of Meditation)

An excellent if perhaps light selection. I'm curious as to which texts you're using for your physics courses.

As for me my teaching load includes:
Calculus-based physics I: mechanics (2 sections - 200 students total)
Algebra-based physics I: mechanics, waves and heat (140 students)
I have 10 TAs to help with labs and grading of these three sections

and for fun:
Astrophysics (10 students divided between seniors and grad students)

     I am also working 19 hours a week (14 hours in a university job and 5 hours cleaning the student co-op where I reside), so it is probably heavy enough for my schedule. The books for my physics courses are:

Kittel Thermal Physics
Griffiths Introduction to Elementary Particles

[MasterJedi]

While I'm not a student I've been slowly taking LOMA exams, once every 3 months to get my ACS, then ALMI and then FLMI hopefully by November of next year.

The exam I'm on now, taking in November, is Business Marketing.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Last semester of a Japanese major:

Media Japanese (so far, reading the Asahi Shinbun with our professor and watching regional-interest stories about monkeys)
Advanced Modern Japanese (mostly kanji and vocabulary, but hasn't entirely eschewed new grammar, sadly)
Classical Japanese (six verb forms in nine conjugations, very few of which bear much resemblance to their modern equivalents, oh joy)
Manuscript Japanese (jibo and hentaigana, oh joy)
Modern Irish Literature (an elective, focusing mostly on Joyce and Yeats, with some John McGahern, Seamus Heaney, and maybe Patrick Kavanagh)