Back To School!

[sleigh]

Today's the first day of school this semester. Ah, the smell of newly-sharpened pencils and fresh textbooks...

So here's today's question while I'm off trying to scare my Creative Writing students into dropping the course: What was the best class you ever took in school, and why?

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[alces2.livejournal.com]

In high school, probably the independent study course that honors students were allowed to take instead of a second semester of American Government. Everyone got an automatic A. I spent a semester studying South African history from the time the Portuguese happened upon it to just after the Boer War. I found it interesting and entertaining. Although it was also entertaining taking a self-paced Intro to Psychology class in which I finished a semester course in about half a semester. Much of the material seemed to have been taken out of Psychology Today to which I had a subscription and had been reading for a year or two. In college I would have to say the various and sundry Psych courses, Childhood and Adolescent Psychology is the one that immediately comes to mind. We were asked to write papers relating our own life to things we studied. For reasons I never fully understood the professor really liked my papers. I wonder if I would have had more fun had I pursued a degree in psychology and somehow been able to push myself to actually get a Ph.D in it. Modern English Grammar, which I took in summer school, was also entertaining. Small class and I did well in that too. I had fun diagramming sentences in various and sundry ways. I did well well in math and science but I don't think I can honestly say that I had fun although it was fairly rewarding actually completing some of the problems and exercises we had to do, the ones where you had three or four problems and it took you days and many pages of paper to actually solve.