My first week of school was really scary -- I got so overwhelmed with the teachers explaining the syllabus and the amount of reading we were going to have to do! But now that we've been going a few weeks I'm okay! I've gotten into the groove of keeping up with the readings, participating in classes, my assignments so far haven't been too hard. So I'm doing good! Here are my classes:
History of Mexico: At first I thought this was going to be my worst class, but it's been good. We just finished reading a book about the Spanish conquering Mexico and I learned some things I had never been taught before.
History of Modern Europe: We started out reading this book called The Rhine, which is about the river in Europe that goes through/by Switzerland, Germany, France, Netherlands etc. My teacher is taking an environmentalist point of view for the class, so we'll be learning more about the interaction between people and their environment as we talk about the big events of European history.
Introduction to Political Science: Also a good class -- it's the biggest by far since it's a Freshman-level course. The teacher is really funny, he makes jokes about the NSA watching everything we do and lets people ask questions about current events and things. It will be an overview of how American politics work.
Intro to Political Philosophy: Pretty boring class. I probably don't like it because it's once a week, Friday afternoons. And it's two hours long. If it was a different time I'd probably be okay. I'm not exactly sure what the class is about since I've only been a few times. We're reading The Republic by Plato right now.
Political Research: This class is about learning how to do political research, it's really good so far. One reason I like it is the textbook isn't difficult to understand, unlike some of the other classes' books. The teacher said the first day that it was going to be a really hard class - so far it's been okay!
So that is school for me right now! I'm glad to be back at it, am enjoying it, and hope that I do okay!
