Hello all!
Well the last week was full of classes, meetings, and the like. Philosophy is driving me quite insane: if anyone wants to discuss moral theory and/or animal rights, I'm ready. Psychology has provided more than the usual amount of interesting material: I was really rather shocked to see how many people in my psych class claimed (in response to a query from our lecturer) to believe that George W. Bush either planned or was aware of plans for the September 11th attacks before they happened. It was probably 1/3 to 1/2 the 300 people in the lecture.
In other kiwi news, the legislature here has been debating the controversial "smacking bill" which would basically prohibit all physical punishment of children. I think the idea is to make it harder to get away with serious child abuse, but needless to say it's causing a lot of controversy.
Socially, there have been rock concerts, dances, Charmed marathons . . . life is good.
Kiwi lesson of the week:
Anything you ever hear is from Australia was probably in reality stolen from New Zealand. (e.g. Russell Crowe *before he started assaulting people with telephones)
until next time
Sunday, March 11, 2007
Friday, March 2, 2007
Photographic proof
Hello everybody,
Things are good here. I just finished my first week of classes and pretty much enjoyed them. For those who are interested, I'm taking a psychology class, a mandatory statistics class, a philosophy class (ethics), and Spanish. I'm really enjoying the philosophy class already, and the others are still kind of in introductory mode. Next week I'll have considerably more class time because we'll be breaking into small groups for weekly sessions in addition to the big lectures. My smallest class (3rd year Spanish) has probably 30-40 people in it while my Stats and Psych classes both have about 350 students.
Campus has been very lively over the past week. Wednesday and Thursday were the clubs information days, so the quad was covered with displays. There have also been all sorts of activities and shows sprinkled througout the grounds. This weekend, I hope to get myself organized.
That's all for now, folks. Until later.
on the way down the hill to the city
my dorm
the nice old building on campus
looking down at the city from the cable car station above the university
Civic Square with suspended artwork
Things are good here. I just finished my first week of classes and pretty much enjoyed them. For those who are interested, I'm taking a psychology class, a mandatory statistics class, a philosophy class (ethics), and Spanish. I'm really enjoying the philosophy class already, and the others are still kind of in introductory mode. Next week I'll have considerably more class time because we'll be breaking into small groups for weekly sessions in addition to the big lectures. My smallest class (3rd year Spanish) has probably 30-40 people in it while my Stats and Psych classes both have about 350 students.
Campus has been very lively over the past week. Wednesday and Thursday were the clubs information days, so the quad was covered with displays. There have also been all sorts of activities and shows sprinkled througout the grounds. This weekend, I hope to get myself organized.
That's all for now, folks. Until later.
on the way down the hill to the city
my dorm
the nice old building on campus
looking down at the city from the cable car station above the university
Civic Square with suspended artwork
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