First Impressions on my Classes
Jan. 21st, 2003 11:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rushthatspeaksCalculus: will be just fine as long as we do as much review as Cookson says we are going to. Cookson is cool. There are also so many people I know in the class, and my roommate has the textbook, so if I need any help I merely have to choose who to bother. (And yay for not having to buy the huge textbook... thank you, Zara.) Zara says I'll be fine as long as I know how to take a derivative, and that I will know that or else. Okay.
Greek: Onward. More of the same. With actual prose. Time to go back into study-my-ass-off mode.
Roman History: An interesting subject. Professor Scott should be much less flustered once he is no longer having to deal with the sudden room and slide problems caused by having fifty more people than he really expected. I am looking forward deeply to Suetonius, and also to actually having some hard and fast facts about the later Empire.
Mythology: Haven't had it yet. This afternoon.
Athenian Architecture and Monuments: I build a small shrine at the feet of Miller-Collett. My gods, the woman is magnificent. I mean, it is so nice to take a course on Athens which *actually examines* things like what the Romans built in the city, and what the Turks built in the city, and what the restoration projects of the 19th century did, and how the Athenian subway system changed the processes of archaeology, and what aspects of Athens most scholars are either content to ignore or trying their best to ignore, and how much of the present Acropolis has anything to do with authenticity... Every single other course I have ever taken that mentions Athens ends history with Alexander the Great. I mean, Wright used to say things like 'Ignore that, it's Roman', and the Latin side of the Classics department sees no point in studying Athens, because it's, y'know, Greek. This despite the fact that the Roman odeion on the side of the Acropolis is one of the most magnificently preserved monuments in the city. And, I mean, I cannot remember the last time somebody actually offered to give me information on Elgin. He only removed much of the Parthenon statuary, so the people who stop with the Classical era are convinced he has nothing to do with them. I have found a course that a) has a genuine intellectual-historical basis and b) ignores the long-standing no-fly zone between the halves of the Classical Studies department. I am in love. The delightful surprise of the semester. I mean, you gotta love a professor who photocopies her class all of Pausanias, and then doesn't bother to assign it because she knows damn well that all of us who are in any way serious (all of us) will be reading it anyway, probably repeatedly. Purr.
Off to spend way too much money on textbooks.
Greek: Onward. More of the same. With actual prose. Time to go back into study-my-ass-off mode.
Roman History: An interesting subject. Professor Scott should be much less flustered once he is no longer having to deal with the sudden room and slide problems caused by having fifty more people than he really expected. I am looking forward deeply to Suetonius, and also to actually having some hard and fast facts about the later Empire.
Mythology: Haven't had it yet. This afternoon.
Athenian Architecture and Monuments: I build a small shrine at the feet of Miller-Collett. My gods, the woman is magnificent. I mean, it is so nice to take a course on Athens which *actually examines* things like what the Romans built in the city, and what the Turks built in the city, and what the restoration projects of the 19th century did, and how the Athenian subway system changed the processes of archaeology, and what aspects of Athens most scholars are either content to ignore or trying their best to ignore, and how much of the present Acropolis has anything to do with authenticity... Every single other course I have ever taken that mentions Athens ends history with Alexander the Great. I mean, Wright used to say things like 'Ignore that, it's Roman', and the Latin side of the Classics department sees no point in studying Athens, because it's, y'know, Greek. This despite the fact that the Roman odeion on the side of the Acropolis is one of the most magnificently preserved monuments in the city. And, I mean, I cannot remember the last time somebody actually offered to give me information on Elgin. He only removed much of the Parthenon statuary, so the people who stop with the Classical era are convinced he has nothing to do with them. I have found a course that a) has a genuine intellectual-historical basis and b) ignores the long-standing no-fly zone between the halves of the Classical Studies department. I am in love. The delightful surprise of the semester. I mean, you gotta love a professor who photocopies her class all of Pausanias, and then doesn't bother to assign it because she knows damn well that all of us who are in any way serious (all of us) will be reading it anyway, probably repeatedly. Purr.
Off to spend way too much money on textbooks.
