I chose my classes for next fall

Here are the top two choices I made for classes in the fall. All freshmen take an FYE (First-Year Experience) for the first two blocks. I had to consider my cross-country schedule, so I couldn't sign up for classes with lots of field trips (Microeconomics, Environmental Science) or lots of afternoon labs (General Chemistry). Here they are.

The Search for Islamic Order: Yesterday and Today
Blocks I & II: Political Science 203/History 200
Professor: Robert Lee
Mentor: Zach Falconer-Stout
"In the first block, the course examines the historical development of Islamic societies and orthodoxies . . . The second block confronts the questions of order and disorder in the contemporary Muslim Middle East."

Block I: Elementary Chinese, Block II: Chinese Language and Culture
CN/PA101 & CN/PA250
Professor: Hong Jiang
Mentor: Weston Brownlee
"This course will then pay attention to the relationship between Chinese language and culture; or in other words, the relationship between word and image, poetry and painting. "

French Civilization was a distant third.
Read more here: http://www.coloradocollege.edu/academics/FYE/courses/

Movie Review

This wouldn't post on Facebook, so I'm saving it here.
Review: L'Auberge Espanol
Worth watching/qu'il est bon de voir
J'aurais donné 4 étoiles à part que: 1) Audrey n'apparaît que 5 minutes et 2) Xavier, c'est un con.
I would have given 4 stars, except that:
1) Audrey Tatou appears for about five minutes total and 2) the Xavier character is a total fathead.

My Personal College Preparation List

To Buy
1. laptop
2. surge protector
3. I need to find extra-long dorm sheets with Spiderman on them.
(third on list does not exist.)
4. I need to fabricate extra-long dorm sheets with Spiderman on them.
5. phone unless I'm planning on using only the cell phone
How am I Going to Send All of my stuff down there
- I don't know.
- and what about my mountain bike?
CC's FAQ's
http://www.coloradocollege.edu/reslife/inside.php?page=faqs

College Bound List

New Faces card (done)
Adopt-A-Student, to Tutt Alumni (done)
Advising Questionnaire, to Assoc. Dean (done)
Snapshot Interest Inventory, to Assoc. Dean (done)
Request for Additional Information ?
Enrollment Data Form to Assoc. Dean (done)
Course Registration Form, to Assoc. Dean (done)
Gold Card: Deposit Form/Meal Plan Selection Form, do not send payment (done online)
Res. Life
- $200 housing deposit (done)
- room preference (done online)
Medical, to Boettcher Health Center
- Student Health Record Physical Exam/Medical History (still need Children's Prog. stuff)
- Certificate of Immunization (done)
Insurance, to CC Student Insurance Office
- Enrollment/Waiver Card (done)
- Copy of front/back insurance card (done)
Athletic Insurance/Medical, to Insurance Coordinator
- Form 1 Questionnaire (done)
- Form 2 Secondary Insurance Info (done)
- Form 3 Athletic Insurance Info (done)
- Form 4 Sports Medicine Disclosure (done)
NewStudentOrientationPriddyTrip, send to Office of Campus Activities
- Backpacking/Service Registration Form (done)
- Health Form (done)
- Acknowledgment/Assump. Risks Release (done)
- Indemnity Agreement (done)
FOOT, send to Office of Campus Activities
- Form (going or does XC conflict?)
- $93

Bookstore

Yesterday I bought an interactive text called Mastering Arabic, and I ordered a Yann Tiersen CD called La Valse des Monstres. They are officially off the wishlist.

What are my responsibilities today? Ha !

It's summer and I like it. I'm going to be lazy for a whole month and I like it. Except for pre-season training; I won't be lazy about that. In fact, yesterday I did my first good run on a treadmill. 45 continuous minutes. I'm back!
Let's see. Today I will go to Borders and get some cool books, then I will go swimming, except that I lost my goggles. Toodles.

The objective of this web journal!

This blog serves as one large letter home about my goings-on that anyone can read. It's like an electronic postcard. High-five!
In it, I'll put my goals, wishes, problems, and reflections. I'm going to allow comments on the condition that no one is going to problem-solve anything for me. No. I am going to figure out everything for myself at college.