Yay! My writer's block absolved itself! I'm not at home any more! I love all my classes despite the fact that they might kill me this semester with the work load I'm taking on. Whatever, it can't be worse than last year. Plus, if they continue to be as thought provoking as the one I had today, then I'll never have to worry about writer's block again. I wrote a four and a half page, unassigned paper on the religious fanaticism that has lodged itself within our state curriculum. It's incredibly boring and bashes Darwin for being a religious fanatic which makes me happy because I learned something new today.
Tomorrow I run my first workshop. I'm a bit nervous about it and I sort of want the students to like me. Not so much that they like me for who I am but that they like me for my teaching methods and skills. I like to think that I look outside of the box at the implications beyond what is immediately presented and a lot of people don't like me for it. But I'm hoping I can contain all of my enthusiasm about science, at least in front of the other students.
My psychology classes are all really interesting so far, if riddled with work. I have a presentation to do next week for my social psychology class on the flaws in using wives tales and folk lore to perpetuate ideas. It's interesting but a bit much to have in the first week of school. My psychopharmacology class is really interesting too. I finally have the neuropsychology professor, despite being more than half way through my college experience. He's really enthusiastic about his field so it makes the class really interesting. Plus we're talking a bit about what I want to be going into so I'm really enthusiastic about it too. My favorite class so far is psychology of gender. It's basically the psychology of women but to be politically correct, that's what they call it. All we've gone over so far is stereotypes but there so much I want to know about the class that I take it all in. There are three guys in the class (they're the minority at the school anyway so this is actually a huge number) which should make for an interesting dynamic, but I think they're all soft spoken so it could end up being a huge disappointment. There are two classes I haven't had yet, well technically five but I only just signed up for two of them not for credit and one's a lab so I don't think they really count. But I'm looking forward to those too.