Willst Du Mit Mir Gehn?

So far this summer has been great. It is my first time taking summer classes and I really like the way they work. Most students would gawk at having to attend a class or two over the summer, but I thoroughly like it much better than the semesters. The thing I hate the most about going home and having no school during the summer is that I tend to lose track of things. I get lazy and its always difficult to get back into the swing of things at the beginning of the semester.

I just got done with the first summer session today. I took Calculus 1 and English 102. The final in Calculus was pretty easy. The only thing I was taken off for was because I wrote in the infinity symbol instead of DNE (does not exist) - which I think is dumb, because it's the same thing if x is approaching infinity from the left or the right side. But its cool though, I'm not worried about it. As long as I get an A in the class!

English 102 was actually to my surprise a very good class. Despite having to write a lot of papers and reading responses, the reading material was pretty interesting. Some of the articles were by people like Althusser, Pollan, Singer; just to name a few. The novel we read towards the end of the class is titled Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga. I'm not going to go into what the book is about because that would take another whole blog post! But basically the theme of the class was the Rhetoric of Food. For the final project we were put into groups based on our topic of interest to make a website. My group created a site to inform the general public about the dangers of fast food and how it is affecting our nation and the world. The website consists of a few papers we did in class such as a Food Narrative, Article Summary, and interviews of people with different views on fast food. You can view the website by going here:

http://fastfoodgroup.webs.com

Now that this first session is over, tomorrow will be starting anew with Calculus 2. I am very excited because I will taking the class with a couple of friends and will be able to have a study group again. In the future I will post entries on the progress of the class and possibly a problem here and there.

Also here is a song I really like!