That's what sociology and anthropology is about!

It is really odd over-hearing someone say they dislike a prof you have grown to admire.

I was riding the shuttle today and I overheard a guy talking about a professor which I very much like. Let's call him Professor Smith. He explained how he took a religion and society kind of class with Smith, and they were talking about protestants. Smith then talked in class about how if he were to ask a classroom full of protestants (or at least I think it was protestants, it could have been evangelicals... they guy had mentioned both) how many of them had physically felt God act in their lives that they would only get 0-1 people say they had, whereas if you asked a roomful of evangelicals the same thing, almost everyone would say they had. This guy didn't like 2 things about things like this and other things he had come across in class and in reading: over generalized and the wrong stats.

Okay, so I'm not sure about stats, they could be made up and invalid, although I highly, highly doubt it. But the overgeneralized... this guy might think they might be overgeneralized, but it could be that they were just generalizations, which is what anthropology and sociology is about. Groups of people are usually described the same way. There will be exceptions within those groups, but exceptions do not make the rule.

I'm finding out more and more that people are following that idea.

"42?!?!"

I do enjoy The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Craig and I just finished reading the first book. It's better than the movie.

But the real reason for this post is that my request to have Ibero-American History take place of Contemporary Lit was passed! This means I don't have to spend extra money to take a similar course online or something, and still be able to graduate on time!

All that I have to do now is pass all my classes, and finish my 25 page paper for Spanish Senior Sem....

I really should work on that more....

How about now?

Still stressed, but happier.

I have such a wonderful boyfriend. This last weekend we celebrated our first anniversary. He wouldn't tell me exactly what we were doing, but it was still fun. He first took me to Hoolihans and we had dinner, without talking about what he had planned after that. Then afterward, when we were in his car, he blindfolded me and drove around for about half an hour. We ended up at the Mall of America, in front of Build-a-Bear. It was a good weekend.

And that's why I'm happy.

I'm stressed because we started school yesterday. I have 4 classes, 2 of which are night classes. I'm just not ready for school to start again.

That 25 page paper that I have to do.... I've only finished half a page.... and it's kinda due next Friday.... this Friday preferably... but I highly doubt that will happen.

I am still short a class in order to graduate. And the thing is, the class I needed is only offered in the fall every other year. It was offered last fall, but my melt-down made me cut some classes from my schedule and the prof for that class said she'd be more than willing to do a course by arrangement with me this spring. So I was planning on that, but then the dean rejected my petition, because it was under a "choose from" category which is ridiculous because pretty much everything under a Spanish major is in a "choose from" option. So now I have to try to petition to have that class waved and take another one in it's place. *sigh*

But even still, it's not too bad.... at least so far. My position might change once I try to work on homework.