I have my final exam this afternoon, and then I’m finished with my six-week first semester of summer. My three classes — Legal Environment of Business, Global Environmental Issues, and Public Speaking — weren’t anything terribly exciting. I learned more about the mechanics of contract law in the business law class, the professor in the environmental class gave me blessedly free reign to research and write about whatever I want (exempting me from tests and exams in the process), and public speaking wasn’t really public speaking, but instead learning to give speeches to or about middle managers in large corporations.
I played nicely in the first two classes, but in public speaking, I generally ignored the requirements of each speaking assignment and tried to write and speak about something from which I would learn something. Yesterday, for example, we were to speak about a family member or friend who has served as a role model. I gave what amounted to a campaign speech for Harold Washington, former mayor of Chicago. The teacher keeps giving me Bs (and rightly so), but I’m here to learn, not waste my time.
This next semester, which starts on Tuesday, I have another three courses in six weeks. It’ll be another semester of taking whatever classes I could scrape up — zoology, criminology, and “The Internet: Power, Politics and Policy.” The third, actually, I’m quite pleased to be taking — it’s obviously right up my alley. Not only is it taught by a fellow geek, but the course is blog-based which, c’mon, you’ve just got to love.
I’m off to Charlottesville for my three-day break. King Wilkie‘s playing Fridays After 5 tonight, and I certainly don’t want to miss that.