Another week posting late and I can only apologise. I already added a phone reminder, because it seems like this is one of the few times where a written agenda is not working for me. Remember how I said last week was crazy? Well, this one was even busier than the last, and life shows no signs of chilling down anytime soon. I’m just holding out until Thanksgiving when I will hopefully be able to sleep and read to my heart’s desire. I am currently working on an essay due this Sunday, an Astronomy problem set due Tuesday, a midterm exam do the Monday after, and a Sociology paper due the next day. Is it even possible to do all those things and also work? And do homework? Well, yes it is, but talk about an unsustainable lifestyle. Apparently taking 5 classes without making one of them credit-non (you get credit for the class but it does not affect your GPA) is not exactly the best idea. Learn from my mistakes.,
Anyway, I promised to talk about the classes I will be taking next semester. Registration for me (and all other seniors) was on Tuesday at 8am. I picked only three classes because I only need one more to graduate, but I don’t want to be enrolled only part-time. The class I still need will fulfil my last two distribution requirements: Natural Sciences and the Quantitive Reasoning Overlay. There aren’t a lot of classes that work for this, but I chose Epidemiology, which sounds interesting and like it might be useful in the future. For my other two courses, I chose a Peace and Justice course on U.S. Public Health described as follows:
A quarter-century ago the Institute of Medicine defined the work of public health as “what we as a society do collectively to assure the conditions in which people can be healthy.” Historically rooted in a commitment to social justice, U.S. public health is now renewing this commitment through 1) an epidemiological shift to examine the social, economic, and political inequities that create disparate health and disease patterns by gender, class, race, sexual identity, citizenship, etc., and 2) a corresponding health equity movement in public health practice. This broad-ranging course examines the above as well as the moral and legal groundings of public health, basic epidemiology, and the roles of public and private actors. Highlighted health topics vary year to year.
It sounds interesting, but there is another Peace and Justice course on Gender, War, and Peacebuilding that sounds interesting. I might end up switching them. My last course is a Spanish Department course called ‘The Making of Modern Latin American Culture taught in Spanish. You may or may not know that Spanish is my first language, but I have not taken a Spanish class since 7th grade. This class makes me slightly nervous, but taking it when I am only taking two other classes seems like the best possible time to do so, My schedule isn’t set yet. I really want to take another class at MIT, so I might have to drop one of these. I also am thinking of maybe taking a design class. I have always loved design, but I have never taken any design classes. I’m obviously running out of time so I might take something like that as well.
I can’t believe that this will be my last semester! I want to take every class offered. Can I make a living out of studying? (Maybe I will)