Friday, July 18, 2008

A Steve update

Yo! I hope everyone is having a fantastic Friday morning. Those of yall that saw the new Batman movie, congrats you beat me to it! I am sure that everyone is exactly where they belong, which in my case is a real good place. So I told yall Id keep you updated with my school status and CSUN info in general. Considering that you guys are the only friends I have that really care I really hope you dont mind me occasionally filling you in with random school updates. The truth is Ive never been so excited to be going to school in all my life. So heres the latest update....

I got into every class that I wanted! Although for some reason they are not offering the math class that I needed this semester, which is a bet of a setback for my plans, but it shouldnt effect anything as long as I get it taken care of before I graduate in 2010. So instead guess what I decided to do? You guessed right gentle souls, I pretty much went English crazy!!! Yay!!!! Sorry, the English dork in me couldnt contain myself. I enrolled in Shakespeare, Creative Writing basics, Popular Culture and American Fiction, Short Story construction, and a random Astronomy lab that I needed to pick up. Im so excited to be taking classes again in my true passion, English, more specifically, writing! Ohh I cant wait to read through all my favorite Shakespeare plays and poems, it should serve as great inspiration for my own poetry. Not to mention the short story course, that should be awesome (considering that Im currently working on a short story)! That is of course assuming that I have good professors, but Im choosing to be optimistic on this issue. For one Ive had great English professors at the community college level (mostly Vista) so Im assuming that the English dept over at CSUN has to be at least the same in terms of quality, and most likely, they should be even better. CSUN is known for its Humanities so I have no doubt that I shall be grilled thoroughly by these guys. I cant wait!
In addition I was awarded enough Financial Aid to cover the entire cost of my first year! Yay!!!!! Sugoi!!!! Mexico is still on baby!!! If not I would have tapped into my savings, but since I got the grant now I foresee pyramids in 09 foso! Im really happy that everything seems to be unfolding exactly as I imagined it would, which hasnt always been the case in my life, I guess it just took the right timing, and motivation. For me school is more than just the education I get out of it, its about the knowledge that Ill be able to share with others once Im done, and I think that more than anything has enabled me to have such fantastic school "luck" as of late. Thanks for all the support and advice over the years, I think I finally got a handle on the school aspect of life and its in large part to the never ending support of my fellow scholar gamers. Here's to the future, to the circle that never begins, and never ends.

5 comments:

Cyrusse said...

That's great news, and I'm glad you're excited about school. I'm still in denial/marginally traumatized by the whole grad school application process, but I need to get moving since it's suddenly most of the way through July. How the hell did that happen? Be as much of an English dork as you want, we're not going to judge. You know I have tendencies in that direction as well. Your new assignment is to invent the pee-sonnet. gogogo

Lorigga said...

Why so serious? =)

honestly, The Dark Knight really messed with my head...it really spoke to the inner cynic in me which has gotten a lot more air play over the last month or so...which is amazing since it's a comic book movie!

Anyways, congrats on getting all the classes you wanted, as well as getting financial aid!

I'm just curious, how many units do all those classes add up to?

as much knowledge as you'll acquire in school...it'll be secondary to all the knowledge you'll learn about yourself and your mind.

Lorigga said...

just wanted to mention, I'm planning on playing WoW tonight. My Priest is still at 43 (maybe 44) I have my 22 warior, a 10 hunter, and a 5 Druid...

So yeah...I'm planning on hopping on later so if anyones interested just give a call (I may be at the gym around 7-ish).

No worries if you all have other plans though. It's always cool grouping with the cup community.

I really want to make a Batman reference here...but I don't want to spoil A THING!

Black Crow said...

ya sorry I had to miss out on WoW last night because I was seeing Dark Knight. I loved it! Very dark, many times after Joker come on screen I would be breathless.

The units add up to 13. With 5 classes Id like to see more unit representation but the astronomy is only 1 unit.

Lorigga said...

You know, at like 11:00 (cause I didn't get home till 10:00 after the gym...my body is very thankful for that) I thought to myself, Crow is probably watching TDK! Which takes precedence over WoW any day. And sure enough you were. K, now we need to get Cyrusse up to speed so we can make references (and discussion) beyond disappearing pencils. That movie had a ton of messages!

About the units, I must admit, I was concerned by the number of classes you listed. But before I could even imagine what the workload would be like for you I had to ask about units. 13 is great! I think considering you're transitioning from community college to a four year academic institution (and you're right, CSUN does have good humanities, especially english, I'm not biased at all...).

It's kind of odd that astro is 1 unit...crazy. Cool though.

Why so serious? =)