New Classes
Last week was my last week of taking United States History Since 1895, and Astronomy. Both of the classes were low difficulty, but high on the amount of work required to pass the class. I learned quite a bit in both classes (except for which star is closest to Earth [it's a pseudo-trick question {the sun}]), and I’m glad that I took the classes.
My next two classes are Speech Communications and E-Security Countermeasures. Both of them should be very easy classes.
I took three years of speech and drama in junior high and high school. Public speaking, debate, acting, and other public performances come easily to me. I’m not as charismatic as JFK (speaking) or Tom Hanks (acting), but I have no fear of doing any of it. I’ve had to do a few presentations in a few classes over the past two years, but I’m assuming that I’ll have to give a speech every night of class for the next eight weeks. I’m ok with that. I think it will be fun to do it.
My countermeasures class is “guided independent study” (GIS), which means that the teacher loads me up with reading and homework to do over the next eight weeks. I have the eight weeks to get it all done, and get my grade. I started working on the reading and homework yesterday afternoon, and I’m almost halfway through with the course already.
In the past, when I’ve taken GIS courses, I’ve always waited until the last week or so to do the homework, and it’s weighed on me the entire time. I’m not going to let that happen this time around. I’m going to see if I can get it all finished by this time next week. If I can pull that off, then the next two months will go smoothly with just a single class to worry about.
