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practicality ([personal profile] practicality) wrote2005-10-28 08:30 pm

B Term

So, B term has started, with all the ensuing craziness of new classes. Calculus 2 looks like it may be pretty good, even if it's at 8 am. The professor is friendly and funny, even if he looks young enough that I thought he was a TA when he first walked in and started passing the syllabus out. Suspect some of his little quirks or quotes or tangents will end up being appropriated for Isaac. Literature of Sin looks good so far - same professor as my Shakespeare class, but a much better class - the in-class discussion doesn't want make me want to bang my head against the desk repeatedly, although we're reading Titus Andronicus first, which I'm having trouble getting through. Object-Oriented Design Concepts (it's a Java class, really)...I'm not sure yet. Apparently the class is supposed to be really hard, but we haven't done enough to tell yet. The professor has a great sense of humor, though.

MIT apps for Early Action have to be mailed by Tuesday...mine is mostly done, but I'm kind of on edge anyway. Which may be part of the reason I've had about five hours of sleep each night this week x.x Random HP fic rec of the moment - Cartographer's Craft. Set post-HBP, blends seamlessly with canon in the best way possible. I've spent my free time the last few days reading it, including several hours this morning in a nice, quiet, warm computer lab Michelle and I found on the second floor of the library.

And now, a poll for the readers! I'm waffling on a Halloween costume this year, mostly because I didn't have the time or energy to do something big and new. So - I've got professor robes!Lupin, which is always fun, and probably warm enough with something underneath, although I still don't have a stuffed wolf to go with it, or I can make a totally ghetto Virgil outfit and cary around my hardcover copy of a translation of the Aeneid. Thoughts, particularly from anyone I'm likely to be hanging out with?

[identity profile] ext_76778 (from dreamwidth.org) 2005-10-28 05:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Titus Andronicus! My favorite play ever! Dude, if you're having trouble getting through it - have you ever seen Titus? The movie, with Anthony Hopkins? Fantastic movie; watch that first, and reading it will be a breeze.

Also, I vote Virgil, because there are always Harry Potter costumes but I have yet to see a Virgil. Though recognizability is an issue. Still.

[identity profile] ext_25570 (from dreamwidth.org) 2005-10-28 06:20 pm (UTC)(link)
You would be the only Virgil cosplayer EVER, I think. This means you have an obligation to go for it.

[identity profile] ext_297251 (from dreamwidth.org) 2005-10-28 09:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, dood, have to go Virgil. It's no contest, despite how it pains me to say that about the dearest Professor the likes of Harry Potter has ever seen. But Virgil is just so... so Toga-tastic. *nods*

[identity profile] gentlemanfriend.livejournal.com (from dreamwidth.org) 2005-10-29 09:38 am (UTC)(link)
you're taking a Literature of SIN class :D ? that's awesome XD

and.... are your classes all sped up so they only last one term :O? how are you done with Calc 1 already ... ? @@ ? (Cocoa is a bigsuperbrain...)

[identity profile] ext_9476 (from dreamwidth.org) 2005-10-29 03:13 pm (UTC)(link)
This is random, but where do you attend college? I'm trying to do my college research, and I was wondering how much you like wherever you are at the moment. Or, rather, why you'd feel the need to transfer to MIT.

(Anonymous) 2005-11-23 02:22 am (UTC)(link)
Virgil and Remus Lupin rock the house. Good idea going as Virgil. I've been up all night trying to locate some good Dante/Virgil slash, and somehow I stumbled upon tis site.