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- Orientation happened. I got lost approximately 284732979 times, but nevermind. XD It's just going to take a semester (or two, or three, or four) to figure out where the hell everything is, that's all. So that went pretty okay, minus that. Got a few things done that needed to be taken care of, like I have my student ID and my minors have been declared and whatnot.
- There was some angst about class scheduling stuff before orientation, as some of you on Tumblr might've seen, but it's fixed now and I have my schedule. I did put in for six classes, so I just have to decide if I'm keeping that or if I'm going to take one of those off. I'm of two minds on that, really: I do have to take 18 credits one semester, so I might as well get it over with now while I'm not taking any upper level classes. On the other hand, this is a new school with probably higher expectations, so six classes could be way too much for my first semester here. :/ Anyway, I haven't made the chart yet, but classes include Sociology of Gender, Classics of Western Literature, Women Creating Change, Intro to LGBTQ Studies, Intro to English Studies, and Intro to Writing in English Studies. All are things they're either making me take (see: all the English stuff) or count toward the minors. No fluff!
- Finished the first season of Once Upon a Time, and predicted that they jumped the shark really badly. Sure enough, I'm two episodes into the second season and I'm BORED. I'm not even sure why I'm still watching it, actually, aside from pure masochism.
- Also finished season four of MLP (not as amusing as earlier seasons, not gonna lie, but the best episode by far was the one with Flutterbat. :P), and the new season of Free! has started. I don't really have any commentary on that so far that I haven't put other places- mainly that they're openly begging for AU fic with that ED, and they're trying to make me a Haru/Rin shipper. I don't appreciate the last point. I'll be honest here, I'd probably ship it already except a) Haru/Mako, dude; and b) RIn's teeth freak me out. Like, how is he supposed to do stuff without causing unwanted bodily injury? It's a huge DO NOT WANT for me.
- Managed to finish NPT, somehow, even though I mostly left it to the last minute and I really, REALLY shouldn't have. XD But I had a super seekrit someone look over it and apparently it's not completely terrible, so there's that. XD (Man, I wish I'd realized during Shipswap that you can edit fics right up until they go live. I totally could've traumatized Ai with that Nico/Leo thing. XD) So now it's just Hikago Exchange that's due soon, which I actually have two fics half started for, it's just a matter of which one I finish first. XD Oh, and I have a prompt from Tumblr that I'm working on (at last count, it was over 700 words, oops). And all the fic, basically.
- I also lost my ID at some point? :/ I tore my room completely apart, but I didn't find it, so I guess I need a new one. Good news is that I was able to order a new one online in about two minutes because I wasn't changing any information. The wonders of the internet. XD Of course, we all know that now that I've done that, I'll find the old one in a place it shouldn't logically be- a winter jacket or somewhere I've looked ten thousand times already or something else totally insane, but what can you do. XD On the upside, I have my passport card should I need an ID between now and when the replacement arrives in two weeks or so.
- Facebook is so much more trouble than it's worth, honestly. Ugh. I insta-defriended someone from high school the other night after he wrote a horrifyingly sexist rant that I can basically sum up as "not all men, it's women too, it's your own fault if you dress like that, whine whine whine." I guess that's the one good thing about FB showing me comments people make on other people's pages, which is a practice that normally horrifies me on principle.
- Will probably be scarce the next few days- Kelly apparently managed to fuck up her computer, so guess who gets to make it all better when she comes over with it? *sigh*
Aaaaand now back to "Why the fuck am I doing this to myself: Teen Wolf Edition" XD Yes, I've apparently decided to torture myself with this shit again (I'm on episode 3 of season 1), mostly because I have Amazon Student anyway, so I figure I might as well use it more than once a semester. XD
- There was some angst about class scheduling stuff before orientation, as some of you on Tumblr might've seen, but it's fixed now and I have my schedule. I did put in for six classes, so I just have to decide if I'm keeping that or if I'm going to take one of those off. I'm of two minds on that, really: I do have to take 18 credits one semester, so I might as well get it over with now while I'm not taking any upper level classes. On the other hand, this is a new school with probably higher expectations, so six classes could be way too much for my first semester here. :/ Anyway, I haven't made the chart yet, but classes include Sociology of Gender, Classics of Western Literature, Women Creating Change, Intro to LGBTQ Studies, Intro to English Studies, and Intro to Writing in English Studies. All are things they're either making me take (see: all the English stuff) or count toward the minors. No fluff!
- Finished the first season of Once Upon a Time, and predicted that they jumped the shark really badly. Sure enough, I'm two episodes into the second season and I'm BORED. I'm not even sure why I'm still watching it, actually, aside from pure masochism.
- Also finished season four of MLP (not as amusing as earlier seasons, not gonna lie, but the best episode by far was the one with Flutterbat. :P), and the new season of Free! has started. I don't really have any commentary on that so far that I haven't put other places- mainly that they're openly begging for AU fic with that ED, and they're trying to make me a Haru/Rin shipper. I don't appreciate the last point. I'll be honest here, I'd probably ship it already except a) Haru/Mako, dude; and b) RIn's teeth freak me out. Like, how is he supposed to do stuff without causing unwanted bodily injury? It's a huge DO NOT WANT for me.
- Managed to finish NPT, somehow, even though I mostly left it to the last minute and I really, REALLY shouldn't have. XD But I had a super seekrit someone look over it and apparently it's not completely terrible, so there's that. XD (Man, I wish I'd realized during Shipswap that you can edit fics right up until they go live. I totally could've traumatized Ai with that Nico/Leo thing. XD) So now it's just Hikago Exchange that's due soon, which I actually have two fics half started for, it's just a matter of which one I finish first. XD Oh, and I have a prompt from Tumblr that I'm working on (at last count, it was over 700 words, oops). And all the fic, basically.
- I also lost my ID at some point? :/ I tore my room completely apart, but I didn't find it, so I guess I need a new one. Good news is that I was able to order a new one online in about two minutes because I wasn't changing any information. The wonders of the internet. XD Of course, we all know that now that I've done that, I'll find the old one in a place it shouldn't logically be- a winter jacket or somewhere I've looked ten thousand times already or something else totally insane, but what can you do. XD On the upside, I have my passport card should I need an ID between now and when the replacement arrives in two weeks or so.
- Facebook is so much more trouble than it's worth, honestly. Ugh. I insta-defriended someone from high school the other night after he wrote a horrifyingly sexist rant that I can basically sum up as "not all men, it's women too, it's your own fault if you dress like that, whine whine whine." I guess that's the one good thing about FB showing me comments people make on other people's pages, which is a practice that normally horrifies me on principle.
- Will probably be scarce the next few days- Kelly apparently managed to fuck up her computer, so guess who gets to make it all better when she comes over with it? *sigh*
Aaaaand now back to "Why the fuck am I doing this to myself: Teen Wolf Edition" XD Yes, I've apparently decided to torture myself with this shit again (I'm on episode 3 of season 1), mostly because I have Amazon Student anyway, so I figure I might as well use it more than once a semester. XD
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Date: July 6th, 2014 02:55 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: July 6th, 2014 04:01 am (UTC)From:I was serious about that, you know. It was a bit traumatizing to write it. I don't even ship it AT ALL, but that's what my brain decided to go with. Stupid brain.
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Date: July 6th, 2014 04:16 am (UTC)From:no subject
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Date: July 11th, 2014 03:07 pm (UTC)From:(I did read a fic semi-recently where he actually filed his teeth that way when in Australia- and when he came back to Japan and he hooked up with Haru, he kept asking to blow him and Haru was like, NO. XD So it's maybe a little bit headcanon now? XD)
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Date: July 11th, 2014 04:02 am (UTC)From:As for higher expectations... Depends on the university, I guess. I had thought DU was going to be hard ass, but it was actually easier than the community college I went to. Until capstone. Capstone was hell.
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Date: July 11th, 2014 03:19 pm (UTC)From:Yeah, I'm apparently going to be mostly in the Humanities and Social Sciences buildings in the next couple of years. (Ironically, I think most of my classes for fall have me running between the Business and Earth Science buildings all day? I don't even know, man. XD)
Well, okay, I think Sociology of Gender is a 300-level, I'm not looking at the sheet right this second, but everything else is 200 and one of them is a 100. So yeah, I was kind of thinking it'd probably be better to do that now as opposed to later when I've got all 300 and 400 levels. O_o (It's either that or magic $800 from somewhere to take the extra class over the summer. Bleh.)
Huh, that's good to know re: expectations. (Then again, it's a big state university and I know people much less intelligent than myself who graduated, so... I guess it can't be that much harder?) I don't think UAlbany has anything like Capstone, fortunately. I mean, there's Honors English, I guess, but I don't feel the need to do that to myself. XDDD
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Date: July 13th, 2014 03:28 am (UTC)From:The 100 level classes, in my experience, are a walk in the park. If it's the only 100-level you need to take, then taking it with five other classes makes sense. It'll give you that needed break that intro classes provide. Once you hit the 300 and 400 levels, depending on your teachers, it just goes downhill from there. (I may or may not be cynical. The graduating euphoria has already worn off.)
If you know anyone there, ask them what the expectations are. Rate My Professors also has some good info on what the teacher is like in terms of personality and grading. So. ♥♥♥♥