Day Two, More Classes
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009.
Today completed the introduction to my new classes (which started yesterday), and I even had enough time to go into town with my friend, Kelsey, to find books. Of course, I ended up getting all of them online for much cheaper, but the walk was nice! I will give a synopsis of my first impressions of my new scholarly endeavors. This list will only include my academic classes, and not the extra classes and activities I’ll be doing (of which there are many).
Yesterday I had biology 101. This is the next step in what I took last semester, biology 100, and it builds off of it. In other words, if you took bio 100, then you take bio 101. The only difference seems to be that we have new instructors. For bio 100, our professor was a man named Randall. He was blunt. He was sarcastic—at our expense. In a word, he was amazing. His approach to teaching such difficult material was brilliant, and I feel that I learned more from that class than any other I’d taken. He was also a neuroscientist, and he helped me to personally find my way and how I was going to go about getting where I want to go. My new professors seem to be more akin to dried up hippies.
Today, I had three classes: Intro to Afro-American Literature, followed by Medical Ethics, follow by Calculus. Afro-American Lit is a course that I have almost no interest in taking and am only doing so to complete a Gen Ed requirement. It seems to be a rather boring class, and so far this has proven true. But to my instructor’s credit, she is not jumping to slavery and slave narratives as the only literature worthy of dissection. In fact, none of the books we will be reading are written by slaves or about slavery. I think that the discussions may be more exciting than I originally thought.
Medical Ethics was the class that I was looking forward to the most. But so far, I am most disappointed by it. The professor is a pretentious “quantum theorist” who spends his time teaching here and as a visiting scholar at MIT. Okay, so that’s alright. But that doesn’t mean he’s bringing in the good money. Indeed, his wife is a doctor. Furthermore, he has made it clear that he “doesn’t care what [we] think,” stating that we have never taken a philosophy course before, and therefore our opinions are essentially base and unimportant. This was where my appreciation of the man flatlined. How many courses do I need to take to know what my opinions are on abortion? Furthermore, I have five adopted brothers and sisters. During their pregnancies and in the early stages of their life, they would have been considered by a man like this teacher “babies who should have been aborted.” My little brother was shaken, beaten, and abused. He had severe brain damage and was expected to be a vegetable. He is now one of the most brilliant and intuitive seven year olds I’ve met. My little sister was neglected and near-starved when she was found in an abandoned apartment. She was completely unresponsive to all stimuli for several months. Now she is one of the most vibrant, playful, and well-natured kids I’ve ever seen. My experience compels me to believe in a greater purpose and a greater good than this man’s ideologies could ever proffer. I have a feeling that the material we’ll be covering in that course will be a big topic for me over the next few months, and it will be hard to stay on his good side while fighting the urge to argue with him. Of course, it may be too soon to judge such things, and I will certainly remain objective to the situation until he completely proves himself one way or the other. My last class was calculus, and it will be run much in the fashion of the math class I took last semester. I even have the same teacher!
After classes I went into town for a bit, and later settled into my friends’ room downstairs to watch television and talk into the wee hours of the morning. I’d say that today went pretty well, and I am looking forward to another great day tomorrow!
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