Lots of writing

I haven't felt much like writing in the last week.  My classes all have a lot of writing. Even math has a writing assignment. Having a essay-type writing component is a fairly new thing that has recently happened with many of the classes. I think its a good thing. Anyway...now I have all this writing that I HAVE to do.  I do alright with my writing, but it takes forever to finish something to the point where I am satisfied with it.

So, there will probably be a fewer posts than normal for the rest of the term.

In math this week we studied degrees, radians, arc lengths, and the Laws of Sine and Cosine. There was a ton of new stuff presented today and I started to feel a little bit lost towards the end. Our first exam is on Monday. I need to study some more for this test, but I think I will do OK.

In humanities we have been learning about early Greek culture, pre-Socratic and Socratic philosophers, and the origins of theater. I've been a little disappointed in this class. We keep getting out much earlier than we should. Today, the instructor said she had a sore throat and class got about 45 minutes early. The class is already a short one and is supposed to be 1 hour and 50 minutes long. I wonder if this is going to be normal. It's interesting material though. But this is another wide but not deep class. Mid-term exam is May 5 and our final is a project of some sort that we haven't been told about yet.

We have spent the last two weeks in writing learning about propaganda, logical fallacies, doublespeak, and appeals. I didn't know what to expect from this class, but it wasn't this. I think the instructor is awesome (and cute) and it has been very enlightening learning more about these things. We usually have 2 paragraphs due each class on readings assigned and we have two or more writing exercises during class. We were just assigned our first essay, a 3 to 4 page essay looking at a political speech from any time period and culture and examining the use of one of the four things I mentioned above. The rough draft is due a week from tomorrow. We have a total of only three essays in this class. And there is no mid-term exam or final exam. There will be an in-class review of our third essay as our final. I'm not sure how that works.