School and such

Hello,

So if you haven't figured it out yet, I am back at school. It isn't too different, really just new classes. Though I had an interesting experience with my dad's car. So I am just going to rant for a bit. Read if you want to, if not then...why did you come here?

So my classes are Intro to Theatre Arts, Calc for the Natural Sciences, Biology 2, and Women's Studies. Each has something to talk about. It is a 16 credit course load (for those of you who don't know an average course load, or at least I am told, is 15). So far it is not too bad, just a lot of reading.

Intro to Theatre has anywhere form 40-100 pages a week of reading. The teacher is ok, very perky and always has the sunny disposition. That is ok, just not for 9 am. She is pregnant so I think I am more intrested to see how big this very skinny lady will get. She has been on broadway a few times and loves all aspects of theatre which is good, but I am sorry for most of it I just don't care. I don't care how they make sets or where they make them. I just don't. I enjoy a good play, I really do, but this is for credit so I just want it over with. I did D.I. for 9 years so I guess that counts as acting but most of it was improv.

Calc for the Natural Sciences is ok. It is just what I thought it would be. I mainly get what has been taughts so far, though I struggled with discrete time dynamical systems. All is well now. The teacher has too many audible pauses for my taste however. It seems like every other word is um or ah. I can't stand it. I sit in the back so when I get something that she is teaching I just talk to John (the guy who I always sit by). He makes it easier to go to class.

Bio 2 is ok. I find the teacher a little annoying just in her voice and laugh and mannorisms. Othere than that its ok, except for I dislike my TA for lab and discussion. So really I just like the suject matter. While not really, we are studying plants. Those aren't my area bio. I just pretend that I am Cari and then I really enjoy it. Soon when we swithch teachers half way though and switch to animals I will enjoy it. I hear we get to disect a fetal pig. I have already done that so it will be smooth sailing.

Women's Studies is going to kill me. We have 70 to 150 pages a week. It is a three hour class once a week at night. The subject matter so far doesn't intrest me and it upsets me that just because I am a female I am supposed to agree with everything the teacher is saying. Here is my real hang up. I am not a feminist. I like men and the advances that they have given to human kind. I like that women have/are working for equality, but seeing as I am a middle class white woman in a mainly democratic state living in a college community, I don't really see much inequality. Sometimes I think that creates reverse discrimination. Here is what I think. To be completely fair and to give the best qualified individual the job/ entrance to college there should be no place to mark down your race or sex. This would mean that everyone has to work and compete with everyone to get what they want. That is the capitalist system, which from what I have taken in the feminists hate. I know it sucks for some but I do believe that those willing to work hard can get ahead.

Other than that life is ok. So here is the tire story. I was picked up by my father and we drove to the Twin Cities together. I dropped him off at the airport and took the car back. I got a flat tire. I heard the flat, it just came out of no where, so I pulled way over on the side of I-35 N. I could see the exit for the other side so I knew what mile marker I was at. Then I did what any rational person would do I called my mommy. She told me to call someone to get help, though I felt perfectly capable of changing the tire myself. I think she was leary of me doing that on the side of I-35, so she had me call the police who put me in touch with the state patrol who patched me over to a wreaker service. When the wreaker service came a man with one arm climbed out of the truck and changed my tire. The flat tire was on the passenger side in the back. He changed the tire, though I helped some and felt like a complete fool because I could have done it myself. So I then asked the guy where at 5:45 at night I could get a new tire, seeing as I didn't want to drive the 45 min back on the doughnut if I didn't have to. He directed me to a place 20 min away, if you drive the speed limit, but the guy told me not to do over 45 mph on the doughnut so it took me a bit longer and a muiltitude of cars honking or fliping me off. When I got to the tire place I met, to put it nicely, some interesting people. The guy behind the counter who apparently was running the place had all of three teeth. He came out and looked at the tire and told me they couldn't patch it and then he went to see if he had that tire in stock. He came back told me they didn't but could have it there in two days. I asked him if I could make it back on the doughnut and he said yes. So I went back driving between 40 and 50 mph. I made it back just fine except very slowly. The next day I called the honda dealership, and they told me to bring the car in. So I did and they told me that they would have to order a new tire, and that if I wanted to go some place else to get the tire that was fine but to make sure they were trained to deal with the computer inside the tire because its a new system and if they screw it up it will cost us a lot more. The honda place qouted me at 200 dollars. So I called around and found that the honda dealership had the best price and are the only ones that can deal with the computer thingy. So the tire will be here soon and they will call me as soon as it comes in. The whole thing was an experience. I was really pissed off that night but now find it all a little funny. Though I find it dishearting that only one person stopped when I was on the side of the road and he only offered to call someone for me, this is after I had called the wreaker.

That is all for now,
Ta Ta