Classes!

Okay, after this, I promise I'll calm down with the torrent of posts. It's just that I have a lot to write about and a little bit of free time right now.

Now. Classes!

My schedule this semester is unlike any I've had before: finally, I have classes that consist purely of my major requirements. This is also the first semester I've been part of a "real" school, not just LSP (which, while they try to make seem like a school, is really just a sorry excuse for a program). And so far, it's...pretty much exactly the same.

In all fairness, I'm not exactly taking the most riveting courses this semester. Research Methods I isn't going to be a big bundle of fun (although the professor actually seems to manage to do a good job of keeping us all awake). And Developmental Psychology, while important, is not my kind of class. We're concentrating solely on development ending in adolescence, and as someone who wants to work only with adults, it's really frustrating (yes, I know that it's important to know the background of what makes people into the fully-formed adults that they are, but I'd still rather concentrate on the cool stuff). Personality Theories has so much potential to be interesting, but the professor is just so boring. It doesn't help that the class is at 9:30 AM, either. Fieldwork I was actually a class that I wasn't looking forward to, but it seems like it's going to be my most useful class. We spent the entirety of last class discussing how to format title pages and use in-text citations in APA style. This sounds duller than the most dull of all possible topics, but it actually is extremely useful: APA style is the iron rule of this major, and no one has ever taken the time to teach it to us before (in all other classes, MLA has been the law of the land, and there are lots of very important differences). The other exciting thing about Fieldwork is that it sets us up for the next two semesters of Fieldwork, where I'll actually get to go out into the real work and work with professionals in the field. I'm really excited and nervous for that!

My other class is the required New Student Seminar, necessary for any first-semester Steinhardt student. It's a class tailored more to freshmen or people that have just transferred to NYU from other colleges, but luckily I'm with all transfers, so they're mostly people that are in my other classes.

That's the other strange thing: I have so many of the same people in all my classes. I've never experienced going to classes with the same people all day, and while it's weird, I know that come midterm and final times, it's going to be awesome. It's also really nice to be able to make friends with people in my own major (I love my Tisch friends, but it's nice to have some people I can talk to that aren't obsessed with themselves).

All in all, I'm really happy with my schedule this semester. It's also allowing me to continue working 20 hours/week, which is super important (if only rent would go away when school started again)!