Sunday, September 20, 2009

Fall Term 2009

I'm a sophomore! But I still get mistaken for a freshman. I'm pretty used to it, I think it's a height thing.
My classes this term are Digital Photography, School and Society, and America in the 1960's. I LOVE all of my classes! Digital photography is pretty hard so far, because I'm not very familiar with my camera besides the usual point and shoot. It's been really helpful to have my OWN camera instead of renting one from the school, because I know that everything I'm learning will be 100% applicable after the class ends, because I use this camera for picture taking! Our class is a little dry... we sit in a dark lab for 3 hours twice a week, while our professor reads us Powerpoints. But it could be worse. Our teacher is a really nice guy, so that's a good thing.
School and Society seems like it should be interesting. We are learning about the history of school in American society, and the social/political/economic implications of offering public education. So far so good.
America in the 1960's is SO INTERESTING! Right now we are learn about how events that occured in the '50's triggered events in the 1960's. Our professor is absolutely brilliant, http://www.knox.edu/khamilto.xml Here's a little info about him. He really knows his stuff, and he is obviously very into it. I love his class. The reading is AWFUL though!!! I am a fast reader, and I've been doing about 3 hours a day doing reading just for his class.
I just found this "wikifire" page about my professor- it's pretty funny. Knox students update it kind of like wikipedia:
http://www.thewikifire.org/index.php?title=Konrad_Hamilton


Knox is really good about bringing in events. Last week all my friends and I went together and saw Kyle Cease, a comedian who won something or other on Comedy Central. He was hilarious, and he really liked Knox. He was only supposed to stay for an hour but he stayed for 3 hours, and kept saying he "isn't supposed to do this, but Knox is so full of joy, I just love it!!" So we felt really special. He probably says that to all the schools.
Anyway, here's a little taste of what he was like:




It's raining today, I'm planning on going to watch Knox soccer play against McMurry College.


Kate