Friday, September 05, 2003
I'm still having trouble with my university email password. I went to the library like it told me to both yesterday and today, but that place makes me uncomfortable. Everybody there knows exactly what they're doing and it doesn't have the friendly silence like in other libraries; instead the silence there makes it seem so...sterile. And as far as I can tell, it's all research. No "pleasure books". Guess I shouldn't be surprised about that one though. The first time I went I followed this girl in the elevator to the fourth floor, then kind of half-followed her down in the aisle. Turns out the one I turned down had a bunch of old books about the french revolution, and behind me were some about some russian war, although I'm pretty sure it wasn't the Bolshevik one. Turned the corner and there was a whole row of shelves on topography and geography. This floor had just about everything except the one thing I was interested in: Greco-Roman period. I did however pick up a large book about costumes/clothing about its history, all the way back to prehistoric times. And I picked up a thin book on post-abortion syndrome (it was the book they had on the subject; go figure). I know I wasn't supposed to re-shelve them but it irks me to just leave a book out, especially if I know exactly where I found it.
The Classics Club had its first meeting today. We're planning to have a showing of Gladiator at the end of the month. As far as I can tell a good lot of them were from the greek class. In fact I think I was the only freshman there. I'm more excited than I sound...honest. The president was pretty hot, but I don't know what he thinks of me since A) I'm a freshman and B) I was having a bad hair day. Everyone there was pretty funny, most of all the head dude person (who incidentally is my mythology professor). It was exciting because the only thing keeping the club alive the past half-decade was the department and the alumni and this year we've had alot of people come so far. Mr. Chaisson was utterly shocked!
I looked up my mythology professor on the website and learned he got a Ph.D. from Yale. A Ph.D.! I didn't even know there was even enough information on the subject to make up a Ph.D.! I looked up the classics program on both the Harvard and Yale websites, and they were both enough to drool over. Unfortunately I'm not going to shell out $40,000+ a year. Now I know what those poor inner-city kids feel when they can only dream of going to a school like that. Guess I'll be stuck working on cadavers in forensic labs the rest of my life. That's exciting, right?
To do tomorrow: go to library and check out Colleen McCullough's Fortune's Favorites and Caesar's Women. See also if they're at the local used bookstore. They sound really good.
The Classics Club had its first meeting today. We're planning to have a showing of Gladiator at the end of the month. As far as I can tell a good lot of them were from the greek class. In fact I think I was the only freshman there. I'm more excited than I sound...honest. The president was pretty hot, but I don't know what he thinks of me since A) I'm a freshman and B) I was having a bad hair day. Everyone there was pretty funny, most of all the head dude person (who incidentally is my mythology professor). It was exciting because the only thing keeping the club alive the past half-decade was the department and the alumni and this year we've had alot of people come so far. Mr. Chaisson was utterly shocked!
I looked up my mythology professor on the website and learned he got a Ph.D. from Yale. A Ph.D.! I didn't even know there was even enough information on the subject to make up a Ph.D.! I looked up the classics program on both the Harvard and Yale websites, and they were both enough to drool over. Unfortunately I'm not going to shell out $40,000+ a year. Now I know what those poor inner-city kids feel when they can only dream of going to a school like that. Guess I'll be stuck working on cadavers in forensic labs the rest of my life. That's exciting, right?
To do tomorrow: go to library and check out Colleen McCullough's Fortune's Favorites and Caesar's Women. See also if they're at the local used bookstore. They sound really good.