Thursday, September 06, 2007
The Beginning of the End
There's light at the end of the tunnel, finally. Yesterday, I began my last semester as a university student. Only a few short months and five classes stand between me and graduation - and my entry into the so-called "real world." Lots of people keep asking me what I'm going to do, and I can never give them a straight answer because in all honesty, I don't have much of an idea of what comes next. However, I do know what has already happened, and thought I might share with everyone a brief history of my university career.
Courses I'll have taken: 40.
1. Logic: Critical Thinking
2. Basic Concepts in Sociology
3. Basic Concepts of Psychology
4. Introduction to Social/Cultural Anthropology
5. Introduction to World Religions
6. Introduction to Dramatic Arts
7. Anthropology of Gender
8. Brain and Behaviour
9. Introduction to Academic Writing
10. Introduction to Philosophy
11. Social Psychology
12. Methods and Statistics
13. Apocrypha, Apocalypses, and the Dead Sea Scrolls
14. Philosophy of Mind
15. Anthropology of Popular Culture
16. Metaphysics
17. The Hindu Tradition
18. Cognition and Perception: Thinking and Seeing
19. Fundamentals of Movement Studies
20. Introduction to Animal Behaviour
21. Psychology of Crime
22. Deviance, Conformity, and Social Control
23. Human Neuropsychology
24. Introduction to Child Development
25. Dances in the World
26. Psychoactive Drugs, Brain, and Behaviour (independent study)
27. Sociology of Religion
28. Fundamental Neurobiology
29. The Rise and Fall of Satan
30. Stage Makeup
31. Mormonism
32. Applied Child and Adolescent Development
33. Sociology of Youth
34. Neuroanatomy Lab (independent study)
35. Nicotine and Neuron Structure (independent study)
36. Elementary Latin
37. Hormones and Behaviour
38. Learning
39. Social Intelligence
40. Psychoactive Drugs and Neuron Structure (independent study)
Approximate hours spent attending classes: 1,400. Double or triple that for the hours spent completing readings or other homework.
Professors who have taught me: 32.
Professors I've actually spoken to (so far): 16.
Addresses I've lived at at one point or another during university: 8.
Times I've been visited by missionaries at those addresses: 7 (5 Mormons and 2 Jehovah's Witnesses).
Number of roommates I've lived with at one point or another: 8.
Times I've changed my phone number: 5.
Approximate number of textbooks I've bought: 48.
Cost of approximately 48 textbooks: Way too fuckin' much.
Highest GPA for a semester: 3.74.
Lowest GPA for a semester: 3.12.
Times I've logged onto the internet: Hundreds of thousands, almost exclusively for reasons of procrastination.
Boys I've kissed: 3.
Boys I've regretted kissing: 2.
Girls I've kissed: Unknown. I was always too drunk at the time to keep track.
Times I've changed my major: 0
Times I've changed my program: 1
Number of "real" houseparties I've attended: 2. I was miserable at both and boycotted the 3rd.
Labs or tutorial sessions I've attended: 0. I stoutly refuse to register for any course which requires any such extra class time.
Mammals I've killed: 13. (12 rats in a science experiment and 1 gopher that I accidently ran over.)
Memorable moments of university:
Shaving my head for cancer after raising $3,400.
Being hypnotized and forced to sing opera in front of all my friends.
St. Patrick's Day 2005, when Jan and Danielle (literally) dragged me back to my room after too much peach schnapps and green beer.
The day after St. Patrick's Day 2005, when I had the king of all hangovers.
The kegger at Spin in first year.
Receiving 97% and 100% on my Philosophy of Mind midterm and paper, respectively.
Being evicted from our first house in the first month and letting the Hannaford Renting Curse take its course.
My introduction to and subsequent obssession with Facebook.
Randomly going to Denny's with Carling at 2:30 AM and the creation of Snitch 'n Bitch.
Learning to finally stop being a passive aggressive tard and telling two particular people to their face exactly what I thought of them and why they were both jerks.
Decapitating rats and finding out I'm okay with it.
I'm sure that's not all of it, but it's pretty impossible to recall the full events of the past three years in one writing session. There's still a semester's worth of new experiences to be had though, so by no means are the lists finished!
Courses I'll have taken: 40.
1. Logic: Critical Thinking
2. Basic Concepts in Sociology
3. Basic Concepts of Psychology
4. Introduction to Social/Cultural Anthropology
5. Introduction to World Religions
6. Introduction to Dramatic Arts
7. Anthropology of Gender
8. Brain and Behaviour
9. Introduction to Academic Writing
10. Introduction to Philosophy
11. Social Psychology
12. Methods and Statistics
13. Apocrypha, Apocalypses, and the Dead Sea Scrolls
14. Philosophy of Mind
15. Anthropology of Popular Culture
16. Metaphysics
17. The Hindu Tradition
18. Cognition and Perception: Thinking and Seeing
19. Fundamentals of Movement Studies
20. Introduction to Animal Behaviour
21. Psychology of Crime
22. Deviance, Conformity, and Social Control
23. Human Neuropsychology
24. Introduction to Child Development
25. Dances in the World
26. Psychoactive Drugs, Brain, and Behaviour (independent study)
27. Sociology of Religion
28. Fundamental Neurobiology
29. The Rise and Fall of Satan
30. Stage Makeup
31. Mormonism
32. Applied Child and Adolescent Development
33. Sociology of Youth
34. Neuroanatomy Lab (independent study)
35. Nicotine and Neuron Structure (independent study)
36. Elementary Latin
37. Hormones and Behaviour
38. Learning
39. Social Intelligence
40. Psychoactive Drugs and Neuron Structure (independent study)
Approximate hours spent attending classes: 1,400. Double or triple that for the hours spent completing readings or other homework.
Professors who have taught me: 32.
Professors I've actually spoken to (so far): 16.
Addresses I've lived at at one point or another during university: 8.
Times I've been visited by missionaries at those addresses: 7 (5 Mormons and 2 Jehovah's Witnesses).
Number of roommates I've lived with at one point or another: 8.
Times I've changed my phone number: 5.
Approximate number of textbooks I've bought: 48.
Cost of approximately 48 textbooks: Way too fuckin' much.
Highest GPA for a semester: 3.74.
Lowest GPA for a semester: 3.12.
Times I've logged onto the internet: Hundreds of thousands, almost exclusively for reasons of procrastination.
Boys I've kissed: 3.
Boys I've regretted kissing: 2.
Girls I've kissed: Unknown. I was always too drunk at the time to keep track.
Times I've changed my major: 0
Times I've changed my program: 1
Number of "real" houseparties I've attended: 2. I was miserable at both and boycotted the 3rd.
Labs or tutorial sessions I've attended: 0. I stoutly refuse to register for any course which requires any such extra class time.
Mammals I've killed: 13. (12 rats in a science experiment and 1 gopher that I accidently ran over.)
Memorable moments of university:
Shaving my head for cancer after raising $3,400.
Being hypnotized and forced to sing opera in front of all my friends.
St. Patrick's Day 2005, when Jan and Danielle (literally) dragged me back to my room after too much peach schnapps and green beer.
The day after St. Patrick's Day 2005, when I had the king of all hangovers.
The kegger at Spin in first year.
Receiving 97% and 100% on my Philosophy of Mind midterm and paper, respectively.
Being evicted from our first house in the first month and letting the Hannaford Renting Curse take its course.
My introduction to and subsequent obssession with Facebook.
Randomly going to Denny's with Carling at 2:30 AM and the creation of Snitch 'n Bitch.
Learning to finally stop being a passive aggressive tard and telling two particular people to their face exactly what I thought of them and why they were both jerks.
Decapitating rats and finding out I'm okay with it.
I'm sure that's not all of it, but it's pretty impossible to recall the full events of the past three years in one writing session. There's still a semester's worth of new experiences to be had though, so by no means are the lists finished!
