Thursday, May 07, 2009

Changed my honours to SD officially today

I like the sound of the coming year. With Philosophy I'd have been looking at philosophy of language, creativity, mind, and value--all interesting, but only 4 classes a week and all philosophy at that felt a bit funny. With SD, I'm keeping the philosophy value and normatively module, but also doing two biology ones (field work and ecosystems), two SD ones (case studies and a review essay on a topic of my choice), and two geography ones (urban geography and people with an awesome professor, and political ecology with a philosopher-go figure). Sounds fun and exciting and new, so I'm stoked for that. Doing the same thing as this year with 50 credits in the first semester and 70 in the second, but as 20 of those are from the review essay it should be okay.

Also talking quite seriously about creating ZAPS, the Zombie Apocalypse Preparedness Society, for next year--doing film screenings, games of zombie-tag, zombie-related lectures (factual [philosophical zombies, death in different cultures, diseases that change personality, etc] and fictional). Good fun. Also thinking about drama for next year, of course...and work, since I won't be doing ambassadoring again as they're changing the format so it functions more like a real job (regular, non-negotiable hours) and I've gotten a bit bored of it.

Aaaaaand this summer. Still need to talk more with Cheolseung, still need tickets from London to LA. But focusing on exams short term and then the long term, so need to give that a bit more thought.

2 comments:

tsonia said...

Do you know about this? Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance - Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem! (Paperback)
by Jane Austen (Author), Seth Grahame-Smith (Author)

Kevin suggested we read it for the next book group (he was voted down). It's evidently 80 percent Jane Austin and 20 percent changes by Grahame-Smith to take advantage of the zombie stuff...

Next year sounds interesting. Take care.

Paul Wallace said...

Just getting back to the blog as classes ended. Held my last class in the Heidelberg..Caught up with your blogs and the uneasiness that you express. One word of advice: Keep your mind and options open. That is exactly what you are doing so continue to follow your instincts! GP