First Days at the U
Posted by Andrew | Filed under General
It’s 9:00 in the morning, mountain time, I have just finished my U.S. National Government class and I’m in the Union waiting for the bookstore to receive their shipment of Mac OS X Snow Leopard discs.
I shall sum up my current attitude about the University of Utah in one sentence. I freaking love it here. That’s a lot to say for just one full week of being a student here and I am quite sure that my attitude will be different when I eventually fall behind on homework, am failing a class, and eating nothing but 59 cent packets of Ramen so that I have enough money for my textbooks next Semester. But allow me to explain why I am enjoying myself so much here after my first week.
The first class I had to show up to on Monday morning was U.S. National Government, a sort of introduction to Political Science. It is taught by what I would have to say in a well weathered gentleman who is the proprietor of a major polling institution here in Salt Lake. He seems to yell his points a lot, and our topics after only 3 hours of class time have included the death of Ted Kennedy, healthcare reform, and the confirmation of Jon Huntsman Jr. as ambassador to China and Gary Herbert taking his place as Governor of Utah.
I have an Business Foundations class taught by a guy who looks like a more portly version of Ben Bernanke, so he must know this money stuff pretty well. We spend the entire class talking about History and Philosophy mostly, subjects that people like Andrew Fastow should probably have been more educated in. Oh yes, we learned about Enron. It’s mentioned in the text under the chapter “How to screw your employees over.”
I have a class entitled Earth Environments where we learn mostly about Al Gore. Just kidding, luckily he hasn’t come up in classroom conservation yet. We have been told we will be learning about the different climates and weather patterns of the world and how humans and animals effect those things. We also have to make a presentation on an environmental subject. I think I’m going to do mine on how the Dutch built the Netherlands from swamps.
And of course, my favorite class has to be my Introduction to Film class. mostly because it takes 3 credits worth of time and counts for 4, but also because we get to sit around and watch movies in a theatre. It’s held in an old single screen movie theatre on Fort Douglas originally built for the recreation of troops stationed there. Seriously, it has a ticket booth out front and everything, it’s a very cool building. I should probably get a picture of it next week and post it to my Flickr page. So far, we have watched and discussed two Alfred Hitchcock films, “Spellbound” and “Notorious.”
I could continue on, but I have Financial Aid issues to sort out so that when I buy my copy of Snow Leopard, I can actually afford it. Wish me luck on that, I’m going to need it.
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The Duo Citizen » Blog Archive » A New Semester at the U Says:
January 16th, 2010 at 01:38[...] by Dr. Dan Jones in his U.S. Public Opinion and Elections class. This is the professor I had last semester for Political Science/U.S. Government something or other. I can’t remember what the class was [...]