Opinions re: classes so far:

ENGL 202: Intro to Creative Writing
So far, I love it. I feel like I'm learning more stuff about my writing, paying more attention to the words I'm using, trying to make it as intense as possible, in a way. We haven't done that much yet, but my professor specialises in ~Fiction~ and is NOT A POET (i.e. why I avoided taking the publishing seminar, because the professor just does poetry all the time) so... it will be nice having somebody I don't know on a more intimate level reading my works.

ENGL 391: Studies in the Novel I
Sidenote: this class is about 18th-19th century British literature. We're reading from Defoe to Dickens. So when the professor asked, "So what books would you have liked to read in this class? What were you expecting?" a kid put his hand up and said that Catcher in the Rye was missing. I... have no words. Hall was trying to say, "Well... that's American literature. And it doesn't fit into our time period." A HUNDRED YEARS TOO LATE, YOU FOOL. Nevertheless I LOVE this course. Of course I had Prof Hall before, for Brit Lit, so he knows me and I already love him. I think this is how Drew will be when he is older, kind of goofy but a favourite with his classes. Currently reading Moll Flanders.

ENGL 333: Shakespeare I
Okay... so I seriously thought about dropping this class, not because I hate it, but because it would lighten my courseload a LOT. We're doing about a play a week (although it seems we are doing good plays -- off the top of my head: Two Gentlemen of Verona, Merchant of Venice, R&J, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, Richard III, Pericles, King Lear, Measure for Measure, and probably a few others) which I feel like I can handle, but there's also quite a bit of writing. I don't know... this week has just been super-busy because I've been working like EVERY FREE MOMENT I HAVE and thus have been staying awake until past midnight nearly every night in order to do homework. That really sucked.

ENGL 414: Brit Lit, Shakespeare-Neoclassical
Wow, super-diving into material already. We read the first half of Utopia already (must read second half for Tuesday), shall be reading Faustus next (which you guys all already read)... errrrmm we'll be reading Twelfth Night at some point in time and I know we have at least three papers in this class... and at the end we'll be reading Moll Flanders (i.e. what I'm starting out term with). This is my one class with Colton and it's quite nice. I keep forgetting that just because someone has a Southern accent, it doesn't make them stupid (awful as that sounds). Because a lot of people in the upper-level courses are quite intelligent.

HIST 369: Hist. of Modern France 1799-Present
I know I'm really going to enjoy this class; it's all that I missed from Euro, just being in a history class and taking notes and immersing myself in ideas of what French peasants were like and thinking of Nell's interpretation of BREAD RIOTS. Errrrr... yeah.

ENGL 561: CHAUCER CHAUCER CHAUCER CHAUCER CHAUCER CHAUCER
This class. Um. I'm learning how to... be more comfortable in myself. Half the class is in grad school. I am quite clearly (to my knowledge) the youngest one in there. To be honest I don't know whether I'll be able to think/interpret as cleverly as these people, but I can certainly try. Meanwhile, I have been practising my best Middle English pronunciation. So far, not too shabby. Certainly not stuttering all over the place but oh, the reading... I'll have to get used to it. Reading the General Prologue (about twelve pages) took me quite some time, and that's a fairly short excerpt. But I figure that, as I grow more comfortable with the language, I'll be able to read the material faster.

IN SHORT: Everything feels like it's going to be challenging and I've felt so overwhelmed this week due to work/school but luckily I don't work this much next week. I'm so mixed up but I don't want to complain because it's shellfish. I mean selfish.

Also: Amanda is not the horrible roommate I thought she would be. In fact, she feels like just what I needed.