Day three of classes. Classes today were: Math, Existentialism, Physics lecture and physics lab.
First was math, same old stuff, easy stuff blah blah. The class will hopefully become more challenging in a few weeks. But it's a good thing that it's easy right now I guess, just so I can transition back into "school" mode.
My existentialism class is going to be extremely depressing, but at least it is interesting. Last night I had to read The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Tolstoy, I didn't really like the book all that much, but the discussion about it that we had in class today was very interesting. We talked about the claustrophobia of life and how through the plot/scene/focus progression in the book we see death's hands slowly constricting around Ivan until he does die. The book gets narrower and narrower in scope, moments before Ivan's death, focusing on it and only it when it happens. The most important moment in our life is death, it is when we evaluate our lives as a whole and judge to see if it had any worth. At least that's what we talked about in class.
Physics lecture was fun again today. I think I'm going to enjoy this class. Professor Burke is a pretty good, if unorganized, teacher and does a good job at keeping attention. He went on some more of his strange little tangents today and I will share some choice quotes with you right now:
Quotes by Professor Burke:
"You're supposed to be free because this is America, but somewhere there is a little Hitler in your mind."
"Try getting high by running or jumping, now THAT's crazy!"
"That's like when you drink too much and walk around Disneyland, things just get screwy"
"It's just simply *AHEM* *HAAAAAAAAM* *GIGIGIGI* *AAAAAR* *YEEEEEOOOOINK*"
He apparently has a movie that is in filming in Wyoming or something that might be released in theaters... crazy stuff.
Finally I had my physics lab (I only had it for about 20 minutes today though, thank god. Otherwise that would have been 5 straight hours of physics) and all that really happened was the TA went over the basics of the class... It's pretty much the same thing as last year. BORING!
First was math, same old stuff, easy stuff blah blah. The class will hopefully become more challenging in a few weeks. But it's a good thing that it's easy right now I guess, just so I can transition back into "school" mode.
My existentialism class is going to be extremely depressing, but at least it is interesting. Last night I had to read The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Tolstoy, I didn't really like the book all that much, but the discussion about it that we had in class today was very interesting. We talked about the claustrophobia of life and how through the plot/scene/focus progression in the book we see death's hands slowly constricting around Ivan until he does die. The book gets narrower and narrower in scope, moments before Ivan's death, focusing on it and only it when it happens. The most important moment in our life is death, it is when we evaluate our lives as a whole and judge to see if it had any worth. At least that's what we talked about in class.
Physics lecture was fun again today. I think I'm going to enjoy this class. Professor Burke is a pretty good, if unorganized, teacher and does a good job at keeping attention. He went on some more of his strange little tangents today and I will share some choice quotes with you right now:
Quotes by Professor Burke:
"You're supposed to be free because this is America, but somewhere there is a little Hitler in your mind."
"Try getting high by running or jumping, now THAT's crazy!"
"That's like when you drink too much and walk around Disneyland, things just get screwy"
"It's just simply *AHEM* *HAAAAAAAAM* *GIGIGIGI* *AAAAAR* *YEEEEEOOOOINK*"
He apparently has a movie that is in filming in Wyoming or something that might be released in theaters... crazy stuff.
Finally I had my physics lab (I only had it for about 20 minutes today though, thank god. Otherwise that would have been 5 straight hours of physics) and all that really happened was the TA went over the basics of the class... It's pretty much the same thing as last year. BORING!
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