Famous Last Words Week 2

Adam and Eve, Lincoln Cathedral Great East Window

 For this week I read the unit on Adam and Eve.  I think it was a good unit to start off with.  It was something that I already knew a little bit about, so that really helped.  The first two parts were from the book of Genesis, but the rest was all new to me.  It was really interesting to get the mythology and folklore about the story of Adam and Eve.  For my Reading Diary, I chose to use bullet points to list out my notes as I thought of them.  I tried not to focus on just writing down the main events, but instead, I wrote down the things about the story that stuck out or the questions that stuck with me throughout the story.  Overall, I think this week went by fairly smoothly.  I stayed a week ahead in the class.  My general plan is to do that for the rest of the semester. 

  In my other classes, things are going pretty well also.  I’m not very worried about my classes.  Most of the work in them is reading, which is something that I really enjoy.  I actually just finished reading Beowulf for one of my other classes, so I’m thinking about doing the unit over that in the next week or two.  I’m excited to see how this class and the readings from some of my other classes coincide.  I’m actually surprised with how well I am staying on top of things so far this semester, though it is only the second week.  Hopefully I can keep it up!

  Outside of class, there have been some pretty interesting things going on.  I’ve been following the goings-on with the presidential candidates more than I did last time around.  This coming election will only be the second that I will have voted in, so I’m excited.  The last election, I had barely turned eighteen and was super focused with graduating high school and getting into college.  Now, it seems like it is a bit easy to follow what is going on than it was back then, though that could definitely be the influence of living in a college town.  

Word count: 361

Famous Last Words Week 1

I decided to get a head start on Orientation Week.  For this week, the reading was the overview of the units we thought we would like to do and our favorite Storybooks.  It was a good way to get acquainted with the things that we will be doing throughout the semester.  I also noticed that a few other people chose to get a head start as well.  It was definitely helpful to see what other people were doing for the assignments.  The sample blog posts that the professor provided were also really helpful.  It was really interesting to see posts from past semesters too.  I’m excited to see what the other assignments will be like throughout the semester.  The stories also look really interesting.  I think that this class will go really well with the rest of my schedule, so that is another good thing.  So far none of my other classes have started yet, but I am looking forward to it.  This summer has been really great, but it will definitely be nice to get back into the flow of things.  I only have three classes on campus this semester, so I’m hoping that I will have ample time to work done and be involved in stuff around campus.  I’m not sure if there will be many connections between this class and my other classes this semester, but I think there will be some overlap with some classes that I have previously taken.  From the units that I’ve looked through, I think that I will get some more in depth knowledge about some topics that my previous classes have touched on.  Though the semester hasn’t really started yet, I feel like this class will be a good class.  The fact that we have the ability to finish the class early is also really appealing.

Created with memegenerator