First-Year Student Journals : Robert : Journal 7

20 January 2003

I mentioned a ski trip in the last journal. One of my friends, a person I knew from the dorm, took a fall on the slopes on a run he was fully familiar with and died. My condolences go out to the Halls and his friends for their loss.

This semester I am extremely excited about classes. It promises to be a lot of work, but a whole lot of fun as well. The way it breaks down is this. I have Latin with a teacher who might actually be able to teach me something in the classroom, as opposed to my last semester experience of sitting around with the book and hoping to learn. I have a class called the Pursuit of Happiness with the head of the Humanities Department and the class consists of three five-page papers and a full day of discussing and debating every class. I have a class called Conflict and Peace, which is a study of nonviolence. And finally I have my Honors Writing component psychology class that, while introductory, actually allows each student to specialize in an aspect of psychology of his or her choice through two eight-page papers.

Time management is going to be an important aspect of this semester for me. It is not that my time is stretched too thin, but that I have so much more time. I quit my job, and so I have regained 18 more hours a week for my own use. Among other things, though, I need to have some sort of money. Because I have something to prove and more personal interests in the project, I am going to start a business. Hurrah capitalism. I will keep everyone up to date on how that's working out.

I am also making sure to take time out of every Monday, Wednesday and Friday for writing. This gives me some structure, forces me to produce at a somewhat regular interval and should translate well to the points when I have a lot of writing to do. I have had some success with my attempts at poetry, in that the very first one I ever wrote for my own enjoyment made it into finals at Poetry.com. It should be included in the Reflections page, along with another original. I would definitely like to hear critique and commentary on them, so if you get a chance give them a look.

I am supposed to have started working out again, but have a complete lack of motivation, so I am also going to add thirty minutes of working out into my Monday-Wednesday-Friday schedule.

I, also, if you believe it, went to a frat party recently with Rob, one of the dorm folk. Nothing special, I don't think anyone needs to worry about me joining a frat, but an experience nonetheless.



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	20 January 2003 I mentioned a ski trip in the last journal. One of my friends, a person I knew from the dorm, took a fall on the slopes on a run he was fully familiar with and died. My condolences go out to the Halls and his friends for their loss. This semester I am extremely excited about classes. It promises to be a lot of work, but a whole lot of fun as well. The way it breaks down is this. I have Latin with a teacher who might actually be able to teach me something in the classroom, as opposed to my last semester experience of sitting around with the book and hoping to learn. I have a class called the Pursuit of Happiness with the head of the Humanities Department and the class consists of three five-page papers and a full day of discussing and debating every class. I have a class called Conflict and Peace, which is a study of nonviolence. And finally I have my Honors Writing component psychology class that, while introductory, actually allows each student to specialize in an aspect of psychology of his or her choice through two eight-page papers. Time management is going to be an important aspect of this semester for me. It is not that my time is stretched too thin, but that I have so much more time. I quit my job, and so I have regained 18 more hours a week for my own use. Among other things, though, I need to have some sort of money. Because I have something to prove and more personal interests in the project, I am going to start a business. Hurrah capitalism. I will keep everyone up to date on how that's working out. I am also making sure to take time out of every Monday, Wednesday and Friday for writing. This gives me some structure, forces me to produce at a somewhat regular interval and should translate well to the points when I have a lot of writing to do. I have had some success with my attempts at poetry, in that the very first one I ever wrote for my own enjoyment made it into finals at Poetry.com. It should be included in the Reflections page, along with another original. I would definitely like to hear critique and commentary on them, so if you get a chance give them a look. I am supposed to have started working out again, but have a complete lack of motivation, so I am also going to add thirty minutes of working out into my Monday-Wednesday-Friday schedule. I, also, if you believe it, went to a frat party recently with Rob, one of the dorm folk. Nothing special, I don't think anyone needs to worry about me joining a frat, but an experience nonetheless.