After having three days of classes, I can officially say that this quarter is going to be a tough one.
Every morning at 9 I have English Grammar. The professor is a really nice old guy, and he's really funny but a lot of his sessions are unorganized and bounce all over the place. I really hope that it gets better as the quarter goes on! Then right after that class, I have English Linguistics at 10. Now, this is the class I know is going to be extra difficult. My professor is a Chinese guy who has a hard time speaking English so half the time I can't understand what he's saying. The textbook he requires for this class is really easy to read and understand though, so that's a plus. And he's making us have mandatory study groups once a week so that should help too.
And last but not least, I am taking a Shakespeare class. I think it must be a rule written somewhere deep in an old book in an old library that you have to be extremely cool to teach Shakespeare, because this professor is amazing! In this class we're going to be reading Twelfth Night, Measure for Measure, and Hamlet. I'm pretty excited because I've never read any of those and I was worried that we might be going over the same old plays I've already read.
Hooray, it's Friday! On Friday's I only have my Grammar class, so I'm done by 10!
Thanks for the update! I can say one thing for sure - I'm glad it's you and not me doing it! I and Will. S. are not big friends.
ReplyDeleteI think study groups are a good idea and especially when understanding the prof. is so hard. I had a Statistics guy who was from India and was really hard to understand. We didn't have study groups and there was no easy way to compare notes on what we thought we heard. The text was hard too. I got an awful grade.
Good luck - I suspect this will be the hardest year and then there will be more classes on how to teach and classroom management and stuff you already have lots of experience in.
Hot here today - then rain.