Hi, so it's already November now. Goodness how time is flying this semester (except when we're actually in class)! I feel really at home here at the University of Illinois. Basketball season is starting, our football team won a game (vs. michigan!!!), life is good. : )
Illinois: 38 Michigan: 13
Illini fans party like it's 1983!
So this week I signed up for classes. I am so thankful to be a James Scholar for that. It would be terrible to have to wait another 2 weeks to sign up for classes and have a ton of trouble getting in any good ones.. I'm an Electrical Engineering major, so I'm taking ECE 190, MATH 241, PHYS 212, and RHET 105. ECE 190 is supposed to be harder than ECE 110, which I'm already in, and the professors aren't supposed to be good at speaking English... MATH 241 is supposed to be EASIER than MATH 231, so I'm excited. PHYS 212 could be weird because I heard that there is a lecture where the professor teaches two classes at once and in one of the classes you have to watch it from a video camera. That would be terrible.. And RHET 105 is just supposed to be a lot of work writing papers that don't mean anything. It'll be 16 credit hours, so that seems good, especially since it's only 4 classes. This semester is like 5 classes plus iFoundry/iTeam stuff. Hopefully there will be less iFoundry/iTeam stuff next semester.. Then I'll have more time to focus on my actual classes.
The iTeam things have really taken a toll on my time, and what gets me is that we aren't even getting credit for it. We get 1 credit hour for Eng 198, iFoundry, and the iTeams. We should get like 4 or 5, based on all the work we do! I was happy when Kevin, my iChair, mentioned that maybe we will just simulate doing the project instead of actually doing it, since it would be a TON of work. I agree, I suppose it would be good experience to go through the motions, though that would even take a lot of time. haha sometimes I wonder what classes other people are taking where they don't have to worry about their time commitments as much as me...
Anyways my group is building a hovercraft for the Eng 198 project. I'm pretty excited to see what we will be able to make it do.
A HOVERCRAFT!?!?!? I gotta see that!
ReplyDeleteFYI I'm in Phys 212 now and we haven't had any of that video camera stuff. I think the class is structured really well, and since you're an EE it'll be a breeze. As a civil engineer, I don't cope as well with electricity....