Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Registering for fall classes!!!

This snuck up on me. Registration for fall term for seniors starts in the morning. Later than now (1:13am). Here is what I'm going to sign up for.

EC 312 - Intermediate Macroeconomics. One of my required classes. I knew I could take this class any term and wasn't really in a big hurry to get it done. The professor that will be teaching it in the fall is one I heard was pretty good. I heard she was leaving and was disappointed that I wouldn't be able to take a class from her, but she's on the fall schedule, so maybe I heard wrong or something. This class is on Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 11:30 to 12:35. This will be my earliest class.

EC 417U - Women in the Economy. This should be a fairly easy class. It's a cluster class (that's what the U means), but not mine. The cluster classes are geared towards non-economics majors as well as majors so they tend to be much less technical. I took this class because the teacher seems to have a good reputation and it's right after my first class - MWF from 12:45 to 1:50.

EC 460 - History of Economic Thought. This is a required class for econ majors. Actually, you pick one class from a list of four. This one sounded the most interesting and it will have the same popular professor who taught the class from last term that got cancelled. There will probably be a lot of work in this class.

Hopefully the texts won't be too expensive.

Maybe I won't change my mind between now and then. And maybe I won't.

I will need to do my senior capstone this coming school year. I need to look into this soon.

UPDATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Apparently I'm not considered a senior yet. Registration is next Wednesday for juniors. 

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Slow garden

It's been almost a month since I planted onions, broccoli, spinach and cilantro. The weather has been kind of cold and it's taking a while for things to take off. The cilantro and the broccoli were old seeds that I got from someone else. The cilantro is doing good but there are only 4 broccoli plants. I need to either buy new seeds or put in something else that I already have seeds for. I bought the spinach seeds last year and it seems to be doing fine. The seeds I got from one of my onions last year started kind of slow and had a low germination rate. I'm probably going to plant more of them though. They were purple onions and I liked them the best. Last week one of my housemate's father brought me a couple of heirloom tomato plants, Georgia Streak and Black Seaman. I planted them last Friday even though I was worried about the forecast of cold nights ahead. I did put cloches on them and will leave them there for at least a couple of weeks. I still want to do one sauce tomato and would like to try San Marzano this time. I might check nearby nurseries this weekend. It has been warmer than expected, and night time temperatures are getting close to being at least 50F, but I'm not going to get ahead of myself. And I'm planting twice as much basil as I did last year. More pesto! I wish pine nuts weren't so expensive. I kind of want to try walnuts instead. Apparently they are a passable substitute and are a lot cheaper. I need to get more fish fertilizer. I'm nearly out.