By Bill Ebbesen (Transferred from en.wikipedia) [CC-BY-3.0], via Wikimedia Commons
After losing a week of school, my classes and instructors are back on track, and at full steam. My first tech writing project is due this week. My history tests are within the upcoming weeks; between now and then, however, there is a lot of stuff I'd better get memorized. I don't mind, though, because I love my history classes.
The first one is part of the U.S. history sequence, focused on the Civil War and Manifest Destiny. It should be interesting. Student participation in this class is largely dominated by two guys who happen to be political polar opposites. One guy carries a soap box to class and climbs up on it at every opportunity. The other guy monitors the soap box on a radar, scanning it for potentially offensive opinions and ready to 'correct' them at any moment. We haven't even reached the very controversial topics yet.
My second history class is Latin American history. It's mostly been geography and population facts so far, but Professor C. seems to enjoy this class more than the others. He got to talking about Brazilian cowboys and sang part of a classic song about them. It was awesome.
The last history class I have is about modern conflicts. So far, we've been going over ideologies, which is very interesting. On the internet and elsewhere, names of ideologies tend to be used interchangeably and pretty loosely, but the subtle differences between them are carefully defined in this class.
Then there's tech writing. Today was our second group presentation; I talked for half of it. It went well,
And it may (ought to) be the first and only time, but I'm glad I didn't study for this presentation. I completely forgot about it and spent most of my 1-hour break watching opera on YouTube. I walked into classes feeling totally confident and positive. I practically cheered for the green lights 90% of the way home. I even finished 2/3 of my tech writing project, right after getting home (this was an extraordinary day).
Now I'll try to finish the other 1/3 this evening. ;)
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