First Week in the Books

I just finished my first week of classes.  Admittedly, it was a short week thanks to the contributions of Dr. King and the fact that my only classes on Fridays are discussions which don't meet during the first week.  Here's a quick rundown:

Geography 360: Quantitative Methods of Geographical Analysis -  Sounds scary right?!?  Basically it is simply a statistics class for both the Geography and Cartography/GIS majors. (I am double majoring in those two.)  I imagine this will be my most difficult class because it has been a while since I have done any significant math.

Geography 377: Introduction to Geographic Information Systems - It is what it sounds like.  This is going to require quite a bit of time outside of class doing projects using GIS software that I have never used before.  This class is the foundation for all the later more interesting GIS courses.  It was important that I made it into this class as if I didn't it would push my coursework back a whole year.  Fortunately I was the last one in.

History 432: A History of Scandinavia since 1815 - Trying to do a little learning about Kelsey's heritage.  Like did you know Finland isn't actually part of Scandinavia?  Or that the King of Sweden during that latter stages of the Napoleonic wars was actually a Frenchman?  Weird.

English 167: British Literature of the 19th Century - I had to take this class for a literature requirement.  I was not excited about this as I figured I would be forced to read some Jane Austen text for the umpteenth time in my life.  I have yet to enjoy any of it.  Then I got the syllabus and no Jane Austen!  Of course the instructor had to talk about her in the first lecture, so I didn't totally avoid it.

LCA 421: Survey of Tibetan Buddhism - My teacher was a Buddhist monk for 25 years then woke up one day and decided he wanted to see what the real world was like.  "It turned out it wasn't as much fun as I thought it would be," he said.  "I didn't know I would have to do so much work."  Should be an interesting class, though there is a guy in the class who is definitely going to be a nuisance.  Already the first day he was asking questions about how the instructor could believe in someone other than Jesus.  If you can't go into this with an open mind, why even take the class?

Gotta get the kiddos to bed so I can start reading the 300 or so pages that I have to get through before school next week.  It begins...