I have successfully survived my first two days of classes. I guess everyone is due a breakdown of how I see this semester turning out and what I think of my classes.

My first class at 9:00 on MWF mornings is Introduction to Modern Philosophy. Although it's a rather large class, I don't anticipate this class being all that difficult. I figure that as long as I do my reading and homework, I should be a-o.k. in that class. There is nothing really all that difficult that I can see tripping me up. The hardest parts with Philosophy classes is that at times they can be really dense. But since it's a larger class, I anticipate the teacher taking things down a notch and breaking things down to the dum-dum level.

I have World Populations at 10:00 on MWF. My teacher is from Africa and speaks with a heavy African accent. But I have had this teacher before so I know exactly what to expect. Although it's a 4000 level Sociology class, there are no term papers due. All that will be required of me is reading, studying, and exams. I think I may have lucked out.

On Tuesdays at 9:30, I have Intro. to Geology to fulfill one of my science core classes. Although not being incredibly excited to be in any kind of science class, I think I picked an easy one since this class is called "Rocks for Jocks" by most students on UNT. Arriving at class today, I saw this come to full fruition since nearly everyone in that class was a jock of some sort. The teacher is your typical science teacher in that he feels that his particular field is THE science field to be interested in. I'm sure you've seen these types of teachers who feel that everything goes back to their subject. "Everything in life can be traced back to rocks." Or a Philosophy teacher saying that all of the questions asked in the world can be traced back to the early philosophers. The teacher in this class has no attendance policy which I can tell is a pretty big mistake. If you don't make these jocks attend class, they aren't going to do so voluntarily. Oh well.

My last class is Intro. to Creative Writing Poetry. This promises to be my most rewarding and challenging class all rolled up into one ball. I don't fashion myself to be any kind of poet, so it'll be interesting finding the inner "beat" in me and getting all my words out on paper.

Although art isn't supposed to be a competition, I've pledged to myself that I'm going to do my best work and be one of the better poets in that class. One thing I don't want to happen to my poetry is that I don't want it to become cliche, so that's why I'll be avoiding:

1. rhyming the words "fire" with "desire."
2. writing cheesy love poems where I compare someone's eyes to something else. There will be no galloping in meadows in my poetry.
3. having all of my poetry be completely depressing. For some reason, people always feel the need to have all of their poetry become this really depressing piece. There is more to life than misery.


That's all I can think of now, but I'm sure more will come to me. That's my first assumption of my classes. We'll see if it changes any throughout the semester.

matt out