{"id":792,"date":"2014-01-24T18:25:34","date_gmt":"2014-01-24T18:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/class2017\/?p=792"},"modified":"2025-07-08T15:27:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T19:27:13","slug":"792","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/class2017\/2014\/01\/24\/792\/","title":{"rendered":"First Week of the New Semester"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I\u2019ve been rather quiet for the last few weeks, I\u2019ve noticed. There\u2019s a reason for this: I wanted to get through my first week back at school before writing about it (also because I\u2019m ahead of my ESH schedule and don\u2019t want to outstrip myself).<\/p>\n

And first impressions are looking pretty good.<\/p>\n

I still have Latin and History, and I enjoyed those two classes last semester. I\u2019m a bit rusty in my Latin, and I need to remember just where we left off in History, but I am sure that I\u2019ll be back in the swing of things in a few days. Besides, this is Wabash; I\u2019m not going to give up just because I don\u2019t understand something immediately. That\u2019d be something DePauw students would do, and Wabash is better than DePauw.<\/p>\n

School favoritism aside, there are other things I am involved in this semester. As always, I will be attending and reporting on Dork Club meetings (if you missed one of my blogs over break, I got some fancy new toys for the Wabash Space Marines). Also, I have enrolled in two new courses: Enduring Questions and Introduction to American Politics.<\/p>\n

Enduring Questions (or EQ) is a discussion and writing based class where you talk about what it means to be a person and how the mind works (like a philosophy class, but not really). I love writing, and I love talking about how people think (I even psychoanalyse myself sometimes if I\u2019m really bored), so I will enjoy that class. We all need an experience where we analyse just who we are and what our purpose in life is (spoiler: Tiger Food), and I think this will be a good experience for me.<\/p>\n

The other class is Intro to American Politics. I can\u2019t say a lot about this class yet, since we haven\u2019t really done a lot, but I will say it has potential. I tend to be on the \u201cdumb American\u201d side of the political information spectrum, so maybe this class will give me a better perspective to how our country works and what we can do to make it better.<\/p>\n

So, as I said in a previous blog post, I think this year is going to be good; I have a few new courses to get excited about, a few groups that I will continue to support, and other events around campus to look forward to (Like the play- I didn\u2019t get a part, but I\u2019ll still go). And who knows? Maybe something even better will come up and I\u2019ll have an even better time then I imagined I would.<\/p>\n

Yeah, this year will be good.
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