Enrolment and Registration
Sorry to all that I’ve been delinquent in posting here, but the last week has been crazy hectic. I’ve barely had time to stop and think, let alone write a blog post, so in the next few days I’ll write some updates about the Woking homestay, last few days of Arcadia orientation, and the move-in to my flat here at Queen Mary (with pictures). For now though, I think I’ll talk about English University enrolment and registration. We all enrolled this morning, officially becoming associate students at Queen Mary University of London, which means we get to go through the hell of registration this afternoon.
I never thought I would yearn for the days when I got to use CAESAR, but it has somehow happened. You see, in England, queues are a national pastime. People just love waiting in lines. So, to register, instead of going online like at Northwestern, they set all the international students loose for 2 hours to run to the individual departments and secure classes there bit by bit. Luckily, I had already gotten preregistered for 5 classes. Unluckily, 3 of them meet at the same time. So, on my agenda today is dropping 2 history classes and adding 2 new history classes, dropping an English class, and signing up for a politics discussion section for a class I’m already in. After a little over an hour waiting in line outside the history department office I manage to get classes I’m happy with, then I walk to the politics department and get its registration taken care of quickly. That left English, where I found a friend who had been in line for an hour and twenty minutes and was only about 1/3 of the way through. So I gave up on that. Anyways, the end result of this 2-hour-plus process is that I have a mostly finalised class schedule! woo! I am taking 4 modules and they are:
British Political System: an intro politics class about politics in the UK.
Disraeli, Democracy, and Empire: a class about Britain in the middle of the 19th century, so basically a ton of the good stuff.
British Horror: Film, Television, and Literature: A history class about the golden age of British horror during the ’60s and ’70s. We watch films every week. It will be awesome.
Literatures in Time: Texts and Contexts from the Eighth to the Sixteenth Century: this is an English class where I’ll get all the good old middle English fun stuff. A mixture of Middle English and modern translations.
I really like the sound of my slate of modules, plus I don’t have class on Friday. I am really excited.
Also, just learned today that we have a reading week here…in the middle of the term. So I have November 6 through November 15 without class, I think. (Not entirely positive it’s that week yet.) That’s all I’ll write for this post. Sorry about the excessive nerdy class talk, I’ll write about interesting stuff later, I suppose.
