Quick entry before I go back to bed

[3rdragon]

Okay, dreaming about meeting with profs to discuss my class schedule probably means that I should send out the e-mails, decide that I'm definitely taking what I'm taking, figure out when I'm supposed to register (and what to do if I have class during that time . . . 8:00am there is 2:00pm here, and I have class 1-2:30pm every day except Friday.), and ignore it until then. I mean, it was a good dream-meeting, but it's the principle of the thing.

There was something else I was going to say here. I don't remember what it was, though.

At any rate, there's a religion class next semester on the Inklings (Tolkien and Lewis and ~Sayers and some others). It sounds really cool and I'm pretty definitely taking it.

On the subject of classes, can someone please convince Bill Oram that he really needs to teach a class on fantasy. He was talking about thinking about it when we helped him move over spring break last year.

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[bookaddict88.livejournal.com]

I've been spending tons of time trying to figure out my schedule when I go back! I'm still not quite sure what I want to take. Thankfully, my school makes it easy to know when you have to register, as it's all on the website, so I don't have to worry about that. And for once, I won't have to wake up at 6 in the morning to try to make sure I get all my classes! I don't have class at 1pm, either, so that works out well.

The English department at Baylor occasionally offers a class on the "Oxford Christians", which I'd love to take when it's next offered if possible. It covers Tolkien and Lewis, as well as "other members of the group known as the Oxford Christians", which I assume means basically the same thing as the Inklings.

And it would be amazing if my school offered a class on fantasy!

Oh, speaking of fantasy, I picked up the Artemis Fowl book you sent me yesterday. Thanks much!

[3rdragon]

I think that the "Oxford Cristian Writers" are basically the writing group known as the Inklings, plus Dorothy Sayers (and maybe someone else). (Although this class apparently does a bit on Sayers, too. I *heart* Sayers.)

Yay for not getting up at 6:00 to register. Upon re-reading the email from the study abroad office, I discover that we don't register until November, so I figure that I'll ignore it at least until the beginning of November, and pay more attention to it then. (Hey, we could well have a holiday. There seem to be a lot of them.)

This prof teaches an AMAZING class on sci-fi every two years; it's really good. He also gives incredibly useful feedback on papers - probably the best writing feedback I've gotten since I was in middle school and my dad was helping me figure out how to write a book report.

Oh good. :) It actually cost less to send that book to Madrid than to send the packet full of letters and postcards that I sent to school at the same time.

[3rdragon]

And by middle school, I mean elementary school.

[bookaddict88.livejournal.com]

I assume it'll probably include Sayers, though I'm not sure who else. I really hope they offer it again while I'm at Baylor, and that I'm able to take it! I've actually not yet taken an English class in college yet (with my program, I don't have to), but I've been keeping an eye on their class offerings just in case there's anything I can't miss.

The nice thing about studying abroad is that we get to register with the first group. As I'm technically a senior, it's not that much earlier, but it's still nice. Especially since my specific honors program is the only one out of the three honors programs that doesn't let you register with the first group.

That professor sounds really cool!

[3rdragon]

I didn't have to take an English class either, and hadn't taken one until last semester until I took the sci-fi one.

I don't particularly understand about first group registration, but I'll assume that it's something that happens when you have enough students that if everyone in the same class tried to register at the same time it would crash your computer system, and take your word about it being a good thing.

Yes, he's very cool.

[bookaddict88.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that part about registration wasn't quite clear, was it? Well, I make sense to myself. ;)

The first group that gets to register at Baylor is honors students (minus my program) and grad students. Then we go by class. It used to be three registration days per class, with deans list students (and for freshmen and sophomores, students in my honors program) first, and then half the rest of the class divided by last name each of the next two days. This semester, though, they've no longer divided the class by last name, so each class only has two days of registration.

Anyway, this semester I get to register with the honors and grad students.

[3rdragon]

Ah, okay, that makes sense now.

[estelwen.livejournal.com]

I took that religion class on the Inklings. Way awesome.
Also, the prof let me write a term paper on light imagery in the names of elf-women.

[3rdragon]

I'm glad to hear that the Inklings class is good. I mean, it looks awesome, but with an every-three-year class that you want to take in your junior year, it's hard to find people who've taken it before.
Of course, I'm sure that you would like any prof who let you write a paper on the names of elf-women. But that does sound pretty amazing.