What a whirlwind! The past week and a half have passed like a blur. The start of school has hit me like a freight train. Did you know that being junior means no more syllabus day? Well it was news to me. Syllabus day, also known as the best day of the school year, is the first day of class when the teacher reads the syllabus aloud then lets us go early. It's like class minus the learning. But apparently when you hit your third year of college teachers skip the fun part and go straight to assigning homework... whomp whomp. But, I'll get out of the waaaambulence and quit belly-aching because it's really not that bad. For the most part classes are interesting, even if I don't love the subject material. On a scale from can't wait to get there to constantly checking the clock my days go as follows:

British Literature 1 - absolute fave. I took the professor last semester for Renaissance English Literature and pretty much want to be her when I grow up. Plus the reading material is really engaging (even though I leave with the twitches every day from London withdrawal)
Studies in Poetry - my professor kind of looks like a bobble head, in an adorable way. Thus far we've been reading really different poetry which is kind of nice.
Utilization of Technology for Teachers - not the greatest class I've ever taken but we play with iPads all day. Also learned that kindergarten style crafting is not my strong suit in this class. I always thought I was a little crafty but our mini book project today would say otherwise. Hello disaster zone.
Language Studies for Teachers - kind of a snooze, but only fifty minutes long so sometimes it flies... and sometimes it doesn't. We've been going old school all over grammar, taking it back to second grade with classifying nouns and verbs.
Topics in Writing: Writing Center Theory & Practice - welcome to the time warp. Seconds turn into hours. I think I'm going to get whiplash from checking my watch so often. I took the class thinking that it's a writing class and I like to write, plus it might be nice to learn how to work one on one with students. Is that what we're doing? Of course not. Instead we've had to write about our first experience with literature then analyze it. As in analyze our personalities based on some story about reading one time then discuss with the class. Wildly. Uncomfortable. Personally, I'm not huge on sharing feelings or personal reflection but I really want to clam up when I have to share feelings or personal reflection with a room full of strangers. Here goes my mission to convince my teachers that I'm actually a mute.

There's a little recap of my classes. Outside of academia, life is going well. College of Ed. is getting ramped up for our big Scholarship Ceremony on Saturday so there's been a flurry of activity in the Office of Development. Exciting stuff all around.