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3rdragon ([personal profile] 3rdragon) wrote2008-10-15 07:54 am
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Quick entry before I go back to bed

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.

[identity profile] bookaddict88.livejournal.com 2008-10-15 12:24 pm (UTC)(link)
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!

[identity profile] bookaddict88.livejournal.com 2008-10-15 09:24 pm (UTC)(link)
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!

[identity profile] bookaddict88.livejournal.com 2008-10-15 11:52 pm (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] estelwen.livejournal.com 2008-10-15 12:57 pm (UTC)(link)
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.