lotusbiosm | Registration

Wow, this semester has gone by fast. I am now registered for next semester. Although it may change, as I currently have a schedule that goes from 8 AM to 8 PM on Wednesday, and no classes any other day. That's three classes, all on one day. There's time between them, but not enough to go home (I miss living on campus, I really, really do). I can't decide if this is a good plan or a bad one. I may end up switching out of one into a different class. I am currently registered for: Proseminar* in Archeology (8-9:15 AM and 11:10-1 PM), Museum Administration** (2-3:50 PM) and Anthropology in the Museum (6:10-8 PM). Part of me thinks this is good- classes I have to take and want to take, and I could just go hang out in the library between them and do work or whatnot. Then I could work the other days. Maybe I could even get my internship next semester, and take care of that (I have to do two before I can get my degree). But I'd have to be really good about doing work ahead of time, not just the night before class. And I might be awuflly tired at the end of the day.
The actual important part is that I'm registered. This means that a) Alfred sent out my transcript, thereby getting the hold taken off my record so I could register, and b) that this semester is nearly over. It's flown by. If next semester goes as quickly, I'll see my boy in no time.

* Proseminars are sort of indroductory classes in the Anthro dept. You have to take a certain number of them to get your degree. Anthro majors have to take four, I (as a Museum Studies student with an Anthro concentration) only have to take two. I am currently taking Soci-cultural Anthropology, so if I take Arch. I will be done with my prosems at the end of this academic year.

** (there's no way to insert the other handy footnote symbols. Am I an extreme nerd for using footnotes in my livejournal? I think I am) Museum Admin is one of 2 courses required for all Museum Studies students. The other is Collections Management: Legal & Ethical Issues, which I will take next fall.

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[I don't think you are, b/c there's a sliding spectrum for nerdiness. Let's say, for argument's sake, that the extreme left is extreme nerdiness (b/c I don't think that nerds would have extreme amounts of money, and therefore would be less inclined to vote toward the right. Whatever.) So we're saying that extreme left is extreme nerdiness. If you're, let's say, about 7 degrees left of center, I'm something like 343 degrees left of center (for those of you who don't know your quick exponential multiples of seven, this is equal to 7^3). So we're saying that if you were only two degrees left of center, I'd be eight. I like to proof read my entries at least four times, and I have to make sure that every parenthesis and bracket (and brace, though I don't generally use those in writing journal entries, only in mathematical equations [of which I don't really do many anymore, b/c I don't have to]) has its enclosing counterpart. I think you can probably blame it on hereditary, b/c my mother likes to read her emails out loud before she sends them to make sure that they sound okay. But then, she is a best selling author within the fashion industry, so I'm not sure if she should be doing that, b/c as a best selling author, she should have an editor who does that work for her (much like I do for Kristin). Okay, I think that's about all, I have to go and do some work, and then go to see the Beatles, b/c they're in concert tonight here in Florence.]^0=1

Well, I would argue that many nerds make very good money, actually, and use Steve Jobs and Bill Gates as my primary examples. And I'm sure Joss Whedon's not hurting for cash, and he's a different kind of nerd. I do agree, though, that they're more likely to be politically to the left of center, as they tend to be more willing to let people do whatever, and have read massive amounts of sci-fi about what happens when government gets too involved in one's personal life.
So the question lies in what the definition of a "nerd" is, as there are math/scienc nerds and there are humanities nerds. And I am the latter, as is my father (my mother not quite so much, but she is too).
I was reading a post on LJ the other day, and corrected the grammer in my head, so that it said "With whom I do not wish to associate" instead of "who I do not wish to associate with", thereby avoiding ending the sentance with a preposition and placing the pronoun into the correct case. Which I blame on my father, who corrects the newcasters on tv all the time (even though they can't hear him), and has been known to write letters to the local paper regarding their poor grammer (which is, actually, quite atrocious).

If you are an "extreme nerd for using footnotes in [your] livejournal," then so am I, because I totally am wishing that I had come up with that idea first. And I totally concur on the semester flying by--I'm totally unprepared for my junior year as spent at Alfred to be a few weeks short of being over, and study abroad time to be just around the corner. Hurrah Alfred sending out the transcript! -- d'Artagnan

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who's a nerd?

Re: who's a nerd?

Me too!