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jecca_mehlota) wrote2007-09-06 10:41 am
jecca_mehlota) wrote2007-09-06 10:41 am
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"Is your handwriting an example of passive aggressiveness?"
First week of classes is over. (It is kind of nice having classes only once a week, even if they are three hours long.)
Two of my professors are awesome, I have decided. The Medical Terminology guy took a major in languages - mostly Ancient Greek and Latin (he took Russian, too, but then was sent to the Solomon Islands and learned Pijin - Solomon Islands Pidgin English - but forgot all the Russian).
So, anyway, though, this means he pronounces things with the Latin accept, which makes me far happier than it has any right to. (He used a hard "c"/"g"/whatever! Hooray!) And instead of saying we cut the -o off the ends of the core words, he says the core word and the suffix have a Battle of the Vowels. O always loses. Sometimes there are I's that get involved. (He calls us repeating a word after him to learn the pronunciation of it "Word Zombie.")
My Human Biology teacher is also very strange! He goes off on tangents a lot, which I think contributed to us only having three pages of notes (one an hour?) to take (I do not mind taking notes, though).
We took down the twelve cranial nerves, and then he had us all copy down a few mnemonics. One of them was basic enough (though these things never help me), just a sentence with each word starting with the letter of each nerve (Oh, Oh, Oh, To Take A Flight! Very Good Vibes - Aim High), and the other was to draw a terrifying man. I made a point of drawing the one in my notes less terrifying (the, er, little person-with-ears is Mithra-me, because I have more fun drawing Mithra than regular humans. I am bemused, but entertained. It was going to be Hisime until I messed up, really), because I want to be able to open my notebook without fearing for my life. Then we had an hour and a half long session of listening to him go on and on about colon therapy (with occasional intervals of what the scientific method is).
Then we very briefly covered Natural Selection, which included this sentence:
"It's a squirrel hoarding nuts for the winter, or a lion hunting the... elk. ...Or... llama?"
(This entry's subject line also came from him, but it wasn't about my handwriting. I suppose it could have been. He was talking about his own, though.)
This promises to be an entertaining semester, at any rate.
(And, for no apparent reason, today I am mute. I do not know why this happens! grah.)
Edit:
And now that I can mention it without Aniko seeing it before her BOX OF HAPPY arrives, haha! YAY TARGET-EXCLUSIVE G1-REDECO MOVIE JAZZ! He is so pretty. His paint apps are a little off in a few places BUT I DO NOT CARE IT IS JAZZ AND HE IS AWESOME. And pretty.
Now I still just need Arcee (actually, I have Target-Arcee! Just not Deluxe) and new!Camaro Bumblebee. And the Robot Heroes. And, er. Then that's it until a good while, as far as I know. er, and six-inch Titaniums. I'm not sure how I forgot those. Not like anyone stocks them anymore, anyway. Even Hasbro's site doesn't have them. I will never own The Fallen of Sunstorm or Ultra Magnus, will I? Sorrow!
Two of my professors are awesome, I have decided. The Medical Terminology guy took a major in languages - mostly Ancient Greek and Latin (he took Russian, too, but then was sent to the Solomon Islands and learned Pijin - Solomon Islands Pidgin English - but forgot all the Russian).
So, anyway, though, this means he pronounces things with the Latin accept, which makes me far happier than it has any right to. (He used a hard "c"/"g"/whatever! Hooray!) And instead of saying we cut the -o off the ends of the core words, he says the core word and the suffix have a Battle of the Vowels. O always loses. Sometimes there are I's that get involved. (He calls us repeating a word after him to learn the pronunciation of it "Word Zombie.")
My Human Biology teacher is also very strange! He goes off on tangents a lot, which I think contributed to us only having three pages of notes (one an hour?) to take (I do not mind taking notes, though).
We took down the twelve cranial nerves, and then he had us all copy down a few mnemonics. One of them was basic enough (though these things never help me), just a sentence with each word starting with the letter of each nerve (Oh, Oh, Oh, To Take A Flight! Very Good Vibes - Aim High), and the other was to draw a terrifying man. I made a point of drawing the one in my notes less terrifying (the, er, little person-with-ears is Mithra-me, because I have more fun drawing Mithra than regular humans. I am bemused, but entertained. It was going to be Hisime until I messed up, really), because I want to be able to open my notebook without fearing for my life. Then we had an hour and a half long session of listening to him go on and on about colon therapy (with occasional intervals of what the scientific method is).
Then we very briefly covered Natural Selection, which included this sentence:
"It's a squirrel hoarding nuts for the winter, or a lion hunting the... elk. ...Or... llama?"
(This entry's subject line also came from him, but it wasn't about my handwriting. I suppose it could have been. He was talking about his own, though.)
This promises to be an entertaining semester, at any rate.
(And, for no apparent reason, today I am mute. I do not know why this happens! grah.)
Edit:
And now that I can mention it without Aniko seeing it before her BOX OF HAPPY arrives, haha! YAY TARGET-EXCLUSIVE G1-REDECO MOVIE JAZZ! He is so pretty. His paint apps are a little off in a few places BUT I DO NOT CARE IT IS JAZZ AND HE IS AWESOME. And pretty.
Now I still just need Arcee (actually, I have Target-Arcee! Just not Deluxe) and new!Camaro Bumblebee. And the Robot Heroes. And, er. Then that's it until a good while, as far as I know. er, and six-inch Titaniums. I'm not sure how I forgot those. Not like anyone stocks them anymore, anyway. Even Hasbro's site doesn't have them. I will never own The Fallen of Sunstorm or Ultra Magnus, will I? Sorrow!
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Classes sound really cool too ^^, glad you got spiffy ones :P.
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Well, two of them are awesome. I am not sure about Nutrition yet. What's that? Yes, I am only taking three classes this semester. Craziness, I know, but, well.
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