My Last Semester
Jan. 18th, 2006 05:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marenceStarted the insanity that will be My Last Semester. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday was the Sound For Film seminar - 12 hours a day of intense learning. I now know how to do location sound for film or video, and how to get around a bit in ProTools. Then a photo shoot on Monday for a gallery show of pictures using media other than regular film - these were taken by an ancient monstrosity of a box camera and will be printed on platinum. Then the actual semester started on Tuesday.
I only have 3 classes for the first half of the semester, which is really good because it looks like Jesus Christ Superstar will be consuming my life for the next 6 weeks. Rehearsals are almost daily until the performances, and they expect us to be off-book immediately. I got a look at the staging last night, and I am going to have to get over my fear of heights because they're putting us up on platforms above and around the seating. Yeah, I'm going to love singing 14 feet above the floor...
My classes seem to be manageable - the English Translations of Foreign Writing class does have 8 books assigned, but they're relatively short. There's also 2 papers, but only 1000 & 1250 words, and that's not terrible. I've volunteered to do the first oral report (10 minute background of the country and socio-political climate of the author's time) because no one else would. This is one of the classes where I already know a lot of what they expect to teach you, and the other students just sit mutely and refuse to give answers or participate in any way, so I end up answering too many of the questions. I feel like an ass, or a Hermoine, but I can't just sit there as the professor's face registers that creeping disappointment at another class filled with apathetic CSU "scholars."
Intro to Early Western Art is another easy one for me, just slides of stuff I already am familiar with. The professor seems pretty interesting, and managed to get almost a dozen students of 60 to raise their hands at various times.
This is one of the disheartening things I see at CSU - the tremendous amount of apathy. Lots of grumbles, but no action about it. Students don't seem to want to learn; they're just doing the minimum necessary to get out with the magical piece of paper that gets them better jobs and therefore better money. Yes, there are people there who are actively learning, and even a small but dedicated percentage of those who get involved in groups and clubs, but so many just don't care. Example - in the last 5 student government elections, out of a population of 16,000 students, less than a thousand ever vote.
OK, enough rants. Off to Trader Joe's.
I only have 3 classes for the first half of the semester, which is really good because it looks like Jesus Christ Superstar will be consuming my life for the next 6 weeks. Rehearsals are almost daily until the performances, and they expect us to be off-book immediately. I got a look at the staging last night, and I am going to have to get over my fear of heights because they're putting us up on platforms above and around the seating. Yeah, I'm going to love singing 14 feet above the floor...
My classes seem to be manageable - the English Translations of Foreign Writing class does have 8 books assigned, but they're relatively short. There's also 2 papers, but only 1000 & 1250 words, and that's not terrible. I've volunteered to do the first oral report (10 minute background of the country and socio-political climate of the author's time) because no one else would. This is one of the classes where I already know a lot of what they expect to teach you, and the other students just sit mutely and refuse to give answers or participate in any way, so I end up answering too many of the questions. I feel like an ass, or a Hermoine, but I can't just sit there as the professor's face registers that creeping disappointment at another class filled with apathetic CSU "scholars."
Intro to Early Western Art is another easy one for me, just slides of stuff I already am familiar with. The professor seems pretty interesting, and managed to get almost a dozen students of 60 to raise their hands at various times.
This is one of the disheartening things I see at CSU - the tremendous amount of apathy. Lots of grumbles, but no action about it. Students don't seem to want to learn; they're just doing the minimum necessary to get out with the magical piece of paper that gets them better jobs and therefore better money. Yes, there are people there who are actively learning, and even a small but dedicated percentage of those who get involved in groups and clubs, but so many just don't care. Example - in the last 5 student government elections, out of a population of 16,000 students, less than a thousand ever vote.
OK, enough rants. Off to Trader Joe's.
