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September 06, 2006
I started out this morning with an appropriate School for the Dead song in my head.
Classes started up today in a very disorganized and confusing manner. I arrived at UMass by ten this morning because I was told yesterday during a meeting that I would be teaching at that time, but my class still hadn't shown up on the UMass class schedule, so I didn't know where I was supposed to go. Stopping in at the department secretary's office, she discovered that I was supposed to teach two sections of the same class at the same time, so we had to scramble and sort everything out. I now teach only in the afternoons Monday, Wednesday and Friday, once at 1:25 and once at 2:30. It will make my mornings a little easier at least.
The other class I had today was one I am taking: introductory Arabic. I think it's going to be a good course. It's huge- kids kept having to steal desks from across the hall as more and more students poured in.
The one thing that has been freaking me out is that, since I've only attended one class so far, and since I haven't obtained my books yet, I have nothing to do when I get home... I feel like precious reading time is being wasted. Wasted! Because I don't know what to read. This is the one thing that's getting to me, knowing how insane my schedule will be in a week or so, and not being able to do anything about it yet. Hopefully I'll get some work in over the weekend and I'll feel a little more comfortable with everything.
Tomorrow I'll have two more classes: one I have been looking forward to all summer, and one I'm checking out as an option, since another class got cancelled. My schedule this semester will be busy, but hopefully not impossible. We'll find out soon enough.
Posted by kelseyfrost at September 6, 2006 11:23 PM
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