Initial Considerations and Such

Well I have now had every class at least once (except my analytical chemistry lab) and I think I can give a suitable introduction to my semester experiences, which might be more challenging than I had anticipated.

BIOL 481: This class surprisingly seems to be one of the easier classes to survive this semester, for a variety of reasons. Namely, the professor does not seem overly strict about grading and pretty explanatory about the information in the class. Attendance is not required, so I might indulge on the occasional mental health day.

Anticipated Grade: A

BIOL 383: I mentioned some of my initial considerations yesterday, and after submitting the pre-quiz I am somewhat less sure. I'm pretty sure I can do well on the homework, readings and discussions areas of the course, which is a little less than half of the grade. The exams though I'm not so sure on, considering that on my pre-quiz that is supposed to measure my skills in the prerequisites, I got a 78%. I'm going to have to withhold an anticipated grade until I start getting some grades which can project my long term grade. The prequiz didn't count against us at all (5 points ec), so I cannot really use that as a tool for my skills.

BIOL 409/BIOL 391: These two course kind of go together because one is immunology and the other is immunology lab, and I can tell right now that I am absolutely going to love these classes. The topics already seem incredibly interesting and I can't wait to delve into these fantastic things. Even though the grading scale is much higher than I would like (a 95% is an A, a 90-94% is an A-), I think I'm going to like it so much that I will definitely excel.

Anticipated Grade: A/A

CHEM 451: My professor for this course has gotten nothing but good feedback for his grading and his tests are multiple choice. PLUS, he throws out the bottom two scores. Out of 14. Damn. I'm not too familiar with the material, but I hear he makes it really understandable for his students.

Anticipated Grade: A

CHEM 417: Ooooh. This is a tricky one. A-Chem definitely seems hard and the professor does not seem like one of those accessible types. Not in the sense that he's never there, but rather that he expects that since he understands it, everyone else should understand it too. I don't like that. Plus, I've already started off on the wrong foot with this guy. BUST ASS, RAY!

Anticipated Grade: A-

HIST 411: This one seems kind of squeaky too. The professor seems like a very hard-liner with his expectations, and he said "I've had students come into my classes with all A's and leave with D's from my classes", so that's definitely scary, but the good news is that most of our grade is made up of papers. Considering my last semester success with papers, I should be good to go.

Anticipated Grade: A, but barely.

SPAN 425: This is my class which will work my ass to the bone. Which is good because my ass needs to lose weight. I'm still a little rusty with my Spanish, but from what I hear, this professor gives so much work and is so willing to work with students that it's hard not to do well in her class. This does not prevent me from having some apprehension, so I think I'm going to withhold an anticipated grade from this class too.

FR 101: This one is my yay class-one in which I should get A's very easily, causing me to go yay. I've got the language gene down pat, with my experiences in Spanish and Latin giving me an awesome opportunity to learn French and learn it VERY quickly. I was starting to memorize a lot of our words right away in class.

Perdon, monseiur. (Ok, so spelling is not great)
Oui, mademoiselle, qu'est ce que vous desirez?
Un the au lait, si'l vous plait.
Voila.
Merci
Je vous en prie.

So pretty basic, but I'm getting there.

Anticipated Grade: A.

I already have tons of homework, so I had better get started on that.