Fortunately, I've always enjoyed science. Science is very connected to the world.
In Geology and Astronomy we learn the physical history of our world, and it's startling and fascinating how different our world, our universe, once was. Michigan, where I'm from, was formed by glaciers carving down from the north, colliding, and then giving up the ghost.
Washington, I recently learned, is a sort of puzzle palace assembled from various pieces of the land breaking off and being compacted, as well as being in a rather active portion of the 'ring of fire.' Geology will be particularly fun (alas that I have to take it in winter!) because Mt. St. Helen's is once again showing some activity.
I look forward to learning the latest in Astronomy. I've kept an eye on the discovery of planets in other solar systems, and it pisses me off that we're letting the Hubble telescope rot given how much we've learned (er, once those mirrors on it were fixed). *stabs Bush* I'm sure that the facts of Astronomy have changed quite a bit since I last studied it. All science has a sort of Sidereal shift, but I studied Astronomy before the Hubble telescope was sent into space.
I wanted to do my science courses earlier, but the math-thing prevented me.
They won't let me take another earth/living world science course for the third option unfortunately, so there I'm stuck with Logic (sigh) or a... a math course (eeek!). Also for my final quarter I have to take a Quantitative Reasoning class (read: math, though I'm thinking Macroeconomics so at least I have that social element), and that utterly abstract science class. Miserable combination, unless they offer a difference science option, say a general SCI100. I'm saving my English 101 for when I have to do such an amalgamation of math. I love the teacher I plan to take this course with, and it's a piece of cake class.
Math is the only subject that I loathe. Disconnected abstractions are just....
Though it was heartening when my math tutor asked if I'd been previously very good at math, because I was picking it up again quickly. I told her that it was always my weakest subject.
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Date: 2004-12-15 09:19 am (UTC)In Geology and Astronomy we learn the physical history of our world, and it's startling and fascinating how different our world, our universe, once was. Michigan, where I'm from, was formed by glaciers carving down from the north, colliding, and then giving up the ghost.
Washington, I recently learned, is a sort of puzzle palace assembled from various pieces of the land breaking off and being compacted, as well as being in a rather active portion of the 'ring of fire.' Geology will be particularly fun (alas that I have to take it in winter!) because Mt. St. Helen's is once again showing some activity.
I look forward to learning the latest in Astronomy. I've kept an eye on the discovery of planets in other solar systems, and it pisses me off that we're letting the Hubble telescope rot given how much we've learned (er, once those mirrors on it were fixed). *stabs Bush* I'm sure that the facts of Astronomy have changed quite a bit since I last studied it. All science has a sort of Sidereal shift, but I studied Astronomy before the Hubble telescope was sent into space.
I wanted to do my science courses earlier, but the math-thing prevented me.
They won't let me take another earth/living world science course for the third option unfortunately, so there I'm stuck with Logic (sigh) or a... a math course (eeek!). Also for my final quarter I have to take a Quantitative Reasoning class (read: math, though I'm thinking Macroeconomics so at least I have that social element), and that utterly abstract science class. Miserable combination, unless they offer a difference science option, say a general SCI100. I'm saving my English 101 for when I have to do such an amalgamation of math. I love the teacher I plan to take this course with, and it's a piece of cake class.
Math is the only subject that I loathe. Disconnected abstractions are just....
Though it was heartening when my math tutor asked if I'd been previously very good at math, because I was picking it up again quickly. I told her that it was always my weakest subject.
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