And the semester begins...

[icarus]

Against all advice and the urging of wildernessguru, I've started up again with sanskritsanskritsanskrit.

I couldn't resist. The professor is one of the country's top experts on ancient Buddhist Prakrit texts. He's also marvelous. You give him linguistic puzzle he's not sure about -- and he lights up. "Oh. Could be." Then he thinks about it, giving his careful attention, weighing the possibility.

I know the class is hard. I know it's really beyond what I can do easily and I may kill my grades. I. Can't. Resist. Plus! He's given me resources to read about the early Indian time period where Buddhism was developing and changing and sweeping India... and climbing over the mountains to Tibet. And this class has someone else in it who is terribly interested in Tibetan Buddhism.

My other class is early Chinese history to 1276. You got it. We're going to cover the period when Buddhism swept across China. *rubs hands together* Yessir. I'm happy. History, I love it. I picked the right teacher, too. She's not insisting that Tibet is part of China, thank god.

(And it's the same period I'm trying to learn about for India.)

The third class is my English tutoring class. I want to learn how to teach. This is giving me a start. I'll also be an official employee of the University of Washington, which will have to look good on Ye Olde Resume.

*glee, glee, glee*

Of course, now that I'm busy, Out Of Bounds is starting to pick up again.

Comments

[enname.livejournal.com]

True, and as long as you don't have any truly hampering personal crises like you did last year, it should positively light going with the not getting so behind that you just can't catch up. You also have a lot of the method you will need for study down and under your belt this time around and so don't have to learn that the hard way too. Hopefully, it should be a little smoother sailing.

He sounds like a fascinating person, truly, and if you have the chance to study with him.. well sometimes that is much more important than the old mark scramble.

You speak to someone who is rather used to the idea of having no information on the time period or people within the time period. It is like doing a lot of history on civilisations that are no longer existing and were wiped out by violence. Very little to go on and a lot of creativity. *notes down book* Thank you for the reference.