Changes....shoot, change is everywhere
So, less than one full week into basking in the glory of my new schedule, and I'm making changes. Apparently Dr Wee has nothing better to do at Luther than shoot me down.- Brandon and I recieved emails today informing us that our "Language, Communications and Society" class is in no way similar to the Luther class "English Language/Linguistics".... so we're more or less screwed.
Our options are to A) take some BS class (one of the very few) that the University will let us take in the English Dept., or B) try to kill some other grad requirement.... So option B it is. My new class is a non-lab science, titled "Woodland Ecology". I know, it sounds just like me. No time to complain, I guess I just hope Luther keeps it down this time.
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In other news, some old Notters (97 and 98 Luther Grads) stopped by the flat today while everyone else was gone. I was making some awesome fruit syruppy/jam stuff for our p-cakes, and the doorbell rang, only to reveal two very Norwiegen looking people and their semi-British friend. It was cool to see their reactions to the new and improved flat, but depressing at the same time. They reminisced about Nottingham times gone by, but also told me how isolated they felt as Americans, and how few actual English friends that they had made. Keep in mind that neither of them were involved in societies much, but the thought of only making friends with other Americans studying Internationally was downright lame. They seemed like pretty cool people- what was their problem?
Also strange to note- they hadn't been back to luther since 2001, and were asking about how campus was. Turning on my tourguide charm, I started thinking about all of the things that have started up at Luther since they had graduated in the late 90's.... the answer? A hell of a lot: New union, CFA built in 2002, Brandt remodel, Olson remodel, Larson remodel, Ylvi remodel, Towers somewhat better, Baker Village was built, Marty's has changed quite a bit.... I was shocked at how much Luther has done in the past 10 years, and was surprised that they hadn't been back.
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Tomorrow we "Explore a Village" - we are individually sent to different surrounding towns to learn about the communities and the people that live there. Ryan is actually my partner, and I'm looking forward to the "Amazing Race-eque" quality of being forced to travel in a very unknown area. Our town is called Lothbroosdihf;oansd..... hell I have no idea. I guess we'll find out tomorrow when we stumble downtown to the bus station and manage to find our way there....
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Finally, UNOTT was just voted as top 10 University in the UK and a top 100 in the world... (74th in the world to be more precise.... Harvard Stanford and Yale make up the top 3)
For better reference, here are the schools that WE are better than....
74. University of Nottingham
75. Carnegie Mellon University
76. Lund University
77. Texas A&M University
78. University of Western Australia
79. Ecole Normale Super Paris
80. University of Virginia
81. Technical University of Munich
82. Hebrew University of Jerusalem
83. Leiden University
84. University of Waterloo
85. King's College London
86. Purdue University
87. University of Birmingham
88. Uppsala University
89. University of Amsterdam
90. University of Heidelberg
91. University of Queensland
92. University of Leuven
93. Emory University
94. Nagoya University
95. Case Western Reserve University
96. Chinese University of Hong Kong
97. University of Newcastle
98. Innsbruck University
99. University of Massachusetts at Amherst
100. Sussex University
So take that, US. In other other news, UNOTT's American Studies Dept was named best Am. Studies Dept in the UK as well. So here's to a decent education abroad.....
posted by Kevin @ 8:17 PM
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