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[labellementeuse]

OOOOONLY TWO MORE EXAMS, OH YES!!!

Calculus and Calc Schol, Tuesday and Wednesday respectively. But there are like four days between me and that, so BLISS!

Today sixth_light picked me up from school and we went and had lunch and watched Henry V (OMG the slash!) at her house, adn then we came home and worked out my uni courses for next year. Um, um, excitement! I'm kinda thrilled 'cause they all look pretty good, although I can't do one of the Phil courses I wanted to because it clashes with Linguistics. :-/ Anyway, courses for next year:

First Semester
LINGUISTICS: The English Language
PHILOSOPHY/MATHS: Logic
MATHS: General maths course (all year)
COMPUTER SCIENCE: Um, programming? *headdesk* I was looking for a science-type paper... I don't really know why I picked this one, except it was the only thing I could find that I was interested in that didn't clash with anything (Like the phil paper that clashed with linguistics, and the english paper that clashed with linguistics, and the astrophysics paper that, um, ALSO clashed with linguistics. Is 11-12 just a really good time for lectures or something?) Plus, my mother suggested it, and I figure I may as well do one thing she wants me to do. I would have been happier with the "introduction to computer science," because the one I'm doing is "computer programming in a high-level language with secial emphasis on style and structure," which all soudns vaguely terrifying... but it was a second semester cause, so no can do. Anyway, I emailed the lady and hopefull she'll tell me if there are prerequisites in time for me to change.

Second Semester
LINGUISTICS: Language and Society (This looks really interesting, I'm looking forward to it, especially 'cause it leads to 'sociolinguistics' in second year which sounds really cool.)
ENGLISH: Shakespeare. um, yeah? I thought about doing American Literature and New Zealand Literature, but AmLit clashed and NZLit looked kinda... um, boring. So no. Plus, in Shakespeare we also get to do Rosencratz and Guildenstern are Dead, which I've heard is really fantastic. So yeah.
FRENCH: French Language 1. For people who "Have 60% or over in UEBS French." Just a language course, looks like, though I toyed with the Culture course instead.

So that's my year. *looks it over* it actually looks pretty good. I woudl have liked mreo philosophy, since I'm only doing 6 points in it and it's one of my majors (along with Maths and Linguistics), but I'll pick them up 2006, I guess. Pleased I've got an English paper and something more sciency, too- kinda sad about no Physics though. :-(

Comments

[insane-ophelia.livejournal.com]

I suspect you'll be doing something like C. That's the code that Windows is written in.

What are you doing tomorrow? Have you been to see In My Father's Den yet? Would you like to?

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

*nods* S'pose. Still haven't got an email back so... but then again, ther's a wholoe second year course that's devoted to C, so maybe not.

Um, nothing, yet... but I have NO money. *cries* So it's not looking good. NEXT WEEK, after exams, I will.

[miriamus.livejournal.com]

I also wouldn't mind doing someting after exams, just I don't know what... :P

[sixth-light.livejournal.com]

I told you it was a good movie. :P

And the Tuesday 11-12 thing at Canterbury is actually freaky. There are at least SEVEN courses I wanted to do that clashed in that ONE time slot. No other times. Just then. The uni must be dead then, everyone seems to be in classes!!

I'm pretty definitely doing that history course now (the Medieval Europe: From Rome to the Black Death one.) Dad says he did one like it, but failed the test because he had to write an essay on why the reforms of Charlemagne were destined to be ephemeral and he didn't know what ephemeral meant.

*sniggers* Okay, kinda harsh, but I find that funny in such an educated and intelligent man.

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

Yeah, yeah, whatever. :D

I agree. It's nuts. It's driving me insane.

Oh, cool. So, tell me, why were they destined to be ephemeral? *g* Yeah, it's funny. But then it's also funny that practically no-one in my whole school kenw what "ambivalent" meant in that comprehension... o.O

[miriamus.livejournal.com]

*blush* What DOES ephemeral mean? I always think of ethereal but I know it's not.

[sixth-light.livejournal.com]

Um...think mayflies. Dreams. Only lasting for a very short time and then vanishing without leaving much trace. Actually, I'm going to go check my snazzy new dictionary. Which tells me: "lasting of or use only for a short time, transitory."

[miriamus.livejournal.com]

Ah. Seen the definition before, just completely forgot it. Thanks :)

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

:p ethereal is really kinda close... I've always wondered what their respective roots were. Because you could so use them together.

[miriamus.livejournal.com]

ethereal ephemerity??? That kinda makes sense. :P

[sixth-light.livejournal.com]

Because it was the blimmin' Dark Ages and everyone else was busy sacking the place while Mr. Charlemange tries to introduce literacy...er, duh. Kudos for trying, though.

NO ONE? I don't believe that. That's terrible. Couldn't they tell from context?

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah, and a lot of them did- but they were really annoyed because "if theyr'e going to have a whole question depending on the knowledge of one word, they should define it no matter what the word is." Me, personally, I think by seventh form if you can't tell by context- or, frankly, if you don't know a word as basic as ambivalent- you should lose the marks anyway for atrocious vocabulary. >:(

[miriamus.livejournal.com]

Especially ambivalent. It's one of my favourite words :P

(it's amazing how few words a lot of people in my form understand...)

[sixth-light.livejournal.com]

if you don't know a word as basic as ambivalent- you should lose the marks anyway for atrocious vocabulary.

Word. Basic literacy is undervalued.

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

it so is.