Follow Friday. Spring registration.

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Follow Friday: all-communities edition

metaquotes.

holiday_wishes is a place to post your ten wishes and find other people's wishlists.

beginningcocks features the hilarity of bad sex writing, and frequent games of lube/not-lube. Name comes from a misread of "beginningcooks." NSFW.

boilingwater: f00d for n00bs. A beginning cooks' community. SFW.

omnomnom is a recipe-sharing community. It should be searchable, as someone(s) seem to keep it paid.

dailyprompt is a writing prompt community.

intro_to_cs is a learning community based around the MIT Open Courseware Introduction to Computer Science and Programming course, which teaches python. (Next semester, I would actually have time to do this. On the other hand, what I want to learn is perl. On the third hand which is now apparently growing out of my torso, Ellie says that once you know the basic concepts, everything else is syntax.)

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Today is Dad's birthday. (I am not actually sure if he still reads this. Mom does. I already said 'happy birthday' on the phone, but it doesn't hurt to mention it again.)

I've bugged my honors advisor again, about the junior/senior project this time. It's not a requirement for the honors program (one can earn a course distinction and/or project distinction, and I'm on track for the former), so unless the history department will let me count it as my capstone, I don't think I'll do it. The effort:tangible-benefit ratio just isn't good enough.

The one course I am definitely 100% totally taking is an honors seminar called "Being 'Crazy' in America: History, Policy and Popular Culture." Between my background in social construction theory (one course and internet debates) and my actually being 'crazy,' I foresee a fair bit of "lol no," but if I made it through Women's Studies 101 without killing anyone, I can also avoid homicide here. [Monday, 5-8]

There's also an honors seminar on the history of espionage (Wednesday nights), one on health care (Monday and Thursday lunchtime), and one on alternative medicine (Tuesday nights).

I'm considering taking Intro to Sociology. Every spring, there are a few really fucking awesome sociology courses listed, and they almost all have Soc 101 as a prereq.

One that doesn't is Gender in a Changing Society. There's also Sociology of Boston, Social Movements, Race ad Ethnic Relations, and Current Issues in Cities and Suburbs. I would love to take Computers and Society, but it conflicts with my honors seminar.

The history offerings aren't making me dance with joy this semester, sadly. Cultural History of the United States could be interesting but the course description was kind of not. American Elites would probably just make me want to kill people. Soviet Secret Police is a popular course, but I'm not sure I want to take that. There's also Colonialism and Contemporary Africa.

I could take 701 (which does fulfill the history capstone requirement) this spring. The course topic is the Global 60s. Or I could take 911 and pick my own damn topic. Or I could wait for my last semester.

Then there is Media and History, which is a combined grad/undergrad course. Looks like there will at least be some allusion to topics like preservation.

Right now, my tentative schedule is:
Monday: Colonialism and Contemporary Africa (1:35-2:40), Gender in a Changing Society (2:50-4:30), Being 'Crazy' in America (5:00-8:00)
Tuesday: sleep, code, knit, paint, make jewelry, write
Wednesday: Colonialism and Contemporary Africa (1:35-2:40), Gender in a Changing Society (2:50-4:30), Media and History (4:35-7:35)
Thursday: Colonialism and Contemporary Africa (1:35-2:40)
Friday: sleep, code, knit, paint, make jewelry, write

Why yes, yes that is two days off and no class earlier than half past one in the afternoon. *smugface*

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On the third hand which is now apparently growing out of my torso, Ellie says that once you know the basic concepts, everything else is syntax

It is! I am quite good with Python because that is what I learned at university, and when I started coding for Dreamwidth (Perl-based) I was nervous at first, but the difference isn't that big, as long as the code is readable (Perl code can be... complex). Same with ruby, as I hear.

Why yes, yes that is two days off and no class earlier than half past one in the afternoon. *smugface*

*weeps* Why, yes, I did study a natural science and always had 30-45 hour weeks at university.

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:D Yay! So I guess I will participate in intro_to_cs next semester.

*hugs* That was mostly a jab at my sister the double-e major. Who, come to think of it, doesn't even read my journal any more. (She's actually trying to get either a Tuesday or a Friday without labs, so she can work part-time for her current employer.)

I will probably wind up going in earlier on days when I have class - I am processing a big collection at work, and I won't be able to finish before my job ends. They're letting me finish it on a volunteer basis because I want "processed three manuscript collections as an undergrad" on my CV.

Hopefully, natural science results in higher pay than history?

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I envy you for not having to take labs and recitations. They make setting up my schedule so much more difficult than it would otherwise need to be..

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*hugs* Is it because they're just more stuff to juggle, or does school make it unnecessarily difficult? :(