Preparation

College is fast approaching. I have finally sorted out my schedule.. after much toiling with all my classes overlapping and such.

I don't know how it works with other colleges, but at Oberlin it's rather difficult to get into the classes you want to take, especially as a lower classman because unlike in universities where you go on a special track to reach your major, at Oberlin you can just take random classes from any department and it doesn't really matter because you're exploring your possibilities and the major isn't as important as the liberal artsy degree.

So basically the trade off is that in a university it's very difficult to take classes in fields outside the one you are pursuing, while in liberal arts schools like Oberlin it's much easier to takes classes in all sorts of fields but its harder to take the specific classes you may be most interested in. It's all about exploring your possibilities, and works especially well for those people who have a hard time deciding on a major.

Also, since Oberlin is a smaller school there aren't as many professors which means there aren't as many time slots for different classes. Now, this can prove rather frustrating because the more classes you try to take, the higher the probability that they will overlap. Especially if you take an art class for instance, which each class is three hours long and will almost for sure overlap with something else you want to take. Like, I wanted to take a typography type of design class as well as a drawing class, but I had to drop the drawing class because all three of the offered computer science labs overlapped with it *sigh*

But it's okay since instead I am taking a politics class about interpersonal/world conflict and how to deal with it and whatnot. It has a professor I like and plus politics is related to my interest in journalism so what the heck, it works for me.

So I'm taking calculus, computer science, conversational russian, design as a social process, peace and conflict studies, and hopefully this exco about programming practical stuff or something like that.. I'm mostly worried about calculus and computer science, but I looked up to comp sci prof on rate my professor and he got good ratings so it's all good.

Exco's (experimental college) are classes taught by students. They are awesome, because classes taught by students are really chill and there are quite a few to choose from. Of course, getting into them can be difficult especially if the exco is popular.

Anyways, I've been so stir crazy lately that I think I'm going to explode. At Oberlin there's always events and different people to see and stuff to do. And even if there isn't there's always homework! Plus I am looking forward to decorating my room and seeing my friends. It's hard to see them during breaks because they all go home (and for them home tends to be quite a distance away, like California).

So I am pretty sure I was going to say something more important in this post, but it evades me now.. oh, well, I have been really active on deviantart lately (not so much in posting new stuff but with networking and finding new artists I like) and I've done two digital drawings that I'm pretty proud of, considering my old ones sucked. So I'm getting a decent amount of new people commenting on my art or at least rating it, and I think I'm getting a pretty good number of positive responses, with some super positive ratings every once in a while. ^__^ My deviantart is http://jassele.deviantart.com/

The last few weeks have been pretty uneventful for me. Mostly buying college related stuff, then returning half of said college stuff. Otherwise: playing Fable 2, playing Civilization, browsing deviantart, chatting with my bf, reading a russian book, and sleeping?