First Day of Classes

I began the class day at an hour I’ve seen very few times in the past year: 8AM! Yes, I’ve gone off the deep-end and I’m taking Major British Writers with Bob Frye. The day began with a scare when Dr. Frye handed out the syllabus. While the 10 pages was intimidating it looks like it will be a fun class for the semester. The scare came from his information sheet. Usually professors will have students fill out our names and contact info for them. Dr. Frye’s sheet was two pages, asking us some fun questions about our favorite and least favorite aspects of literature and the supporting rationale. I thought the first page was fun to answer as it made me reflect on the readings I’d done in the past year. The second page made me laugh out of nervousness. I can’t remember the exact question, but Dr. Frye asked us to write an essay for him (ON THE INFORMATION SHEET!!). The question resembled “Define literature and distinguish between poetry and prose and give examples of each.” Just a little bit intimidating for the information sheet! While it was a little disheartening, I think the class will be marvelous and pretty intense.

My other classes today were Buddhism, Photography, and Sports Nutrition. All three of these are going to be good; however, on Tuesdays I have them all in a row for 5.5 hours straight. I’m sure I’ll write more about them when the semester picks up, but for now, I’m getting ready for my Senior Seminar in Religion which starts tomorrow. Senior Seminar is the class which we had to do pre-reading for over the break!