the future
Nov. 8th, 2007 01:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
silentdescantSo here's the deal: next quarter class registration is coming up soon. These are the classes I know I'm going to take:
5 cr - Italian 2
5 cr - Physics (intro or slightly advanced or something, I dunno)
which leaves me 8 more credits. So, another 5 credit class and a 2 or 3 credit one. Let's talk about the 3 credit one first.
The guy I got for my interview (which is tonight omg!!) is the guy from FIRST WA that I'm doing a video project with, and it will be finished around March, I think. There's an option, at school, for a "video production internship" or something like that, and all I have to do is make a write up of the project and have both the person I'm interning for (FIRST WA guy) and the department chair sign off on it. The department chair just happens to be my favorite awesome professor, and I'm about 90% sure he'll let me do whatever I want. I'm equally (if not more) sure that the FIRST WA guy will gladly sign off on it. So that's kind of in the bag already, I just have to talk to them both about it. So that takes care of my 3 credits.
Which leaves the extra 5 credits. There's so many classes I could fill in with. At the top of my list is Writing Fiction and Business of Film & Video, and I'm leaning towards Fiction because I'm going to transfer to college to get more film & video stuff, so it might get redundant. But there's also drawing, photography, more math, chemistry, logic, psychology, sociology, more English/writing/literature, and probably even more stuff, all of which is very interesting to me. Unless I find a perfect and awesome class, though, I think I'll probably do the Writing Fiction one, which is online and taught by a good teacher, I think.
So that kind of takes care of winter quarter. But for spring, this is where it gets interesting (and exciting!!).
I could go to Italy in the spring. There's not even a requirement for Italian, but by then I'll have had Ital 1 and 2, and the study-abroad thing would kind of replace Ital 3. There's a required 5 credit class that's basically cultural studies, and then there's only a few others offered: Foundations of Photography, Psychology of Adjustment, Cross-cultural Psychology, and Art History: Renaissance and Baroque. So if I had to take two of those, maybe Photography and Psych of Adjustment (though all four of them sound interesting). But anyway, I'd live in an apartment in Florence with 5 other girls and we'd get weekends free to go wherever and do whatever.
Suddenly, study-abroad is turning into an actual possibility. It's kinda weird. And how awesome would that be, to go to Italy for a couple months?
But then, when I get back home, it'll be summer, and there won't be any school, and I'll just be getting ready for college (probably hopefully SCAD), which isn't much to do all summer. So, my mom said I should get a job. We only talked about it for a few minutes, but I'm already liking the Starbucks that's down the road from my house, because Starbucks is cool and it's a chain, so I could easily get a job wherever I go to college as well. Or I could apply at the grocery store (which isn't quite as appealing to me but might pay better, I dunno) or Blockbuster (and this one I'm mentioning just because it's working with movies, lol) or something.
But this calls into question the whole timing issue. On the study-abroad website, it says to register for it and buy a plane ticket by January (I think), and that's like, really soon. And then, I'd probably have to apply and interview for a summer job back in winter before I leave for Italy because I live right down the road from a high-school and the kids will all be flocking to summer jobs right when I get home, which isn't a good time to apply and have a decent chance of getting it (at least, I don't think; I could be wrong).
Of course, if I don't go to Italy, I'd need to find 3 classes (plus a 2 or 3 credit one) to take for spring quarter. The only one I know right now is Italian 3. That, again, opens up two 5 credit class slots and there's just so many to choose from. I think there's advanced Fiction and probably more physics if I like it, or, again, psychology, sociology, etc. I'd still be in the same boat with summer jobs, but I'd at least have more time to apply and interview for it.
So anyway, that's only one of the things that's going on in my brain right now. Others include: math midterm on Tuesday, Italian test today (it went okay; better than I'd anticipated), interview and directing tonight, talking to FIRST WA guy about next quarter tonight, and food. Not only do I need to eat something before I leave, but I think I have to bring snacks for the crew as well. I'm thinkin' left over Halloween candy and oranges. That might make a mess though... Well, whatever, one of the guys last week brought bananas.
5 cr - Italian 2
5 cr - Physics (intro or slightly advanced or something, I dunno)
which leaves me 8 more credits. So, another 5 credit class and a 2 or 3 credit one. Let's talk about the 3 credit one first.
The guy I got for my interview (which is tonight omg!!) is the guy from FIRST WA that I'm doing a video project with, and it will be finished around March, I think. There's an option, at school, for a "video production internship" or something like that, and all I have to do is make a write up of the project and have both the person I'm interning for (FIRST WA guy) and the department chair sign off on it. The department chair just happens to be my favorite awesome professor, and I'm about 90% sure he'll let me do whatever I want. I'm equally (if not more) sure that the FIRST WA guy will gladly sign off on it. So that's kind of in the bag already, I just have to talk to them both about it. So that takes care of my 3 credits.
Which leaves the extra 5 credits. There's so many classes I could fill in with. At the top of my list is Writing Fiction and Business of Film & Video, and I'm leaning towards Fiction because I'm going to transfer to college to get more film & video stuff, so it might get redundant. But there's also drawing, photography, more math, chemistry, logic, psychology, sociology, more English/writing/literature, and probably even more stuff, all of which is very interesting to me. Unless I find a perfect and awesome class, though, I think I'll probably do the Writing Fiction one, which is online and taught by a good teacher, I think.
So that kind of takes care of winter quarter. But for spring, this is where it gets interesting (and exciting!!).
I could go to Italy in the spring. There's not even a requirement for Italian, but by then I'll have had Ital 1 and 2, and the study-abroad thing would kind of replace Ital 3. There's a required 5 credit class that's basically cultural studies, and then there's only a few others offered: Foundations of Photography, Psychology of Adjustment, Cross-cultural Psychology, and Art History: Renaissance and Baroque. So if I had to take two of those, maybe Photography and Psych of Adjustment (though all four of them sound interesting). But anyway, I'd live in an apartment in Florence with 5 other girls and we'd get weekends free to go wherever and do whatever.
Suddenly, study-abroad is turning into an actual possibility. It's kinda weird. And how awesome would that be, to go to Italy for a couple months?
But then, when I get back home, it'll be summer, and there won't be any school, and I'll just be getting ready for college (
But this calls into question the whole timing issue. On the study-abroad website, it says to register for it and buy a plane ticket by January (I think), and that's like, really soon. And then, I'd probably have to apply and interview for a summer job back in winter before I leave for Italy because I live right down the road from a high-school and the kids will all be flocking to summer jobs right when I get home, which isn't a good time to apply and have a decent chance of getting it (at least, I don't think; I could be wrong).
Of course, if I don't go to Italy, I'd need to find 3 classes (plus a 2 or 3 credit one) to take for spring quarter. The only one I know right now is Italian 3. That, again, opens up two 5 credit class slots and there's just so many to choose from. I think there's advanced Fiction and probably more physics if I like it, or, again, psychology, sociology, etc. I'd still be in the same boat with summer jobs, but I'd at least have more time to apply and interview for it.
So anyway, that's only one of the things that's going on in my brain right now. Others include: math midterm on Tuesday, Italian test today (it went okay; better than I'd anticipated), interview and directing tonight, talking to FIRST WA guy about next quarter tonight, and food. Not only do I need to eat something before I leave, but I think I have to bring snacks for the crew as well. I'm thinkin' left over Halloween candy and oranges. That might make a mess though... Well, whatever, one of the guys last week brought bananas.