This post is specifically about the things that happened at De Anza during Fall quarter - mostly my classes. I'll only be talking about three classes here as I already talked about one of them previously [here].
Speech 9 was probably one of the most boring classes ever. It wasn't the teacher - Professor Kramer seems to really know his stuff and he's very opinionated. It's just that the content was almost a review of every single class we've taken in our lives - and I think our professor knew that. It was such a relief to have a friend I knew in that class with me, I didn't exactly make any new friends. I think I skipped three sessions of class... one time because of a concert or something related to that and other times because I felt like sleeping and didn't want to go to school. Overall, there's not much to say about this class.
Humanities 1 (Creative Minds) was probably the most interesting class I've had in my life up to this point. When people ask me 'what do you do in that class'? I don't really understand what to answer - and now I understand why people never really gave me a clear answer when I asked them before too. I guess you can say it's a class to try to bring out the inner creativity of yourself - you read various stories, you hear of how people have thought outside of the box, you do and learn things that make you uncomfortable, and you also talk about controversial things - just to provoke you a bit and make you angry or at least think. Why would we want to feel angry? Well sometimes things that make us angry such as inequality make us want to give a message out to society and that can spark the inner creativity in us. Professor Breiter was also unlike any teacher I've had - he's literally this middle-aged surfer dude and he's definitely an unconventional teacher. I talked to classmates occasionally in this class, but didn't make any friends. I didn't exactly feel like it either because the class had so many people and honestly for some reason it felt intimidating to feel obliged to make a friend in such a large class where we have to be face to face with at least one another person every day. Every week we were also split into 'predator groups'. Some groups got along really well. My group? Not so much. Half the time I took on the 'leadership role' (I only do this when I have to... which actually happens quite often). I guess I took this class very seriously because Professor Breiter would talk about very meaningful things (like race, religion, fulfillment in life) and was disappointed when people in the class, especially people in my group, weren't taking it seriously. But to end this description of Creative Minds on a happy note, I had a lot of fun in this class and am taking Breiter's Cultural Anthropology class next quarter and am super stoked for that.
Linguistics could have been better. I generally really love studying linguistics - mostly phonetics, semantics, and sociolinguistics (linguistic anthropology). I learned a lot and had pretty okay classmates - I even made the effort to make a friend and we clicked pretty well. However, I wish I had a better teacher. She definitely knew her stuff and was good at teaching and explaining everything - but there were quite a few times where her 'oldness' just came in and it got annoying to listen to her. I personally don't like it when people fake smile - and it's really obvious when people are fake smiling - and my professor did this a lot. A lot a lot a lot. She smiled to the point where she almost had a disgusted look. And even though linguistics is a subject where you have to study with an open mind, I feel like there were a few times where my professor was rather narrow-minded. I bet a lot of students were, too - but we don't really show it since it's mostly our professor talking in the first place. She was also unorganized at times - randomly and spontaneously putting us into groups without giving us much instruction on what to do. There were times when she was surprised when we didn't the do the homework that wasn't assigned - probably just her oldness sinking in. I could go on and on complaining about her - and she could probably complain about me, too - but even though I didn't have a good teacher, I learned a lot and at least I'm thankful for that.
For astronomy, one more thing I'd like to say is that I also made a pretty good friend in this class! I will most likely keep in touch with her, we connected on a lot of things.
Regarding the music club - I'm not sure what to think about it anymore. The club is evidently falling apart, and the current 'presidents' of this club could really care less. It'd be a pity if it did fall apart - I met some pretty awesome people through this club. I'd tell friends that if the 'presidents' finally renounced their titles, perhaps I would consider helping out again because how can you claim to help out when you don't even care?
I also went to one magic club meeting - that's actually where I made my friend in Astronomy. I've always wanted to visit the club again because the people are really cool there - but I never had any time. Perhaps next quarter?
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