Classes

Walking into class this morning Professor Cahill says it's his birthday. So, being the chemistry teacher he is he makes himself a birthday candle out oh hydrogen gas and a Pringles can. He keeps talking as the flame burns ever lower with the hydrogen gas running out and all of a sudden the thing blows up. So that woke all of us up to pay attention in class this morning (My chem class is at 8AM for anyone who cares to know). Professor Cahill then moves on to the point of the class today, basic measurements in chemistry and and to convert measurements. With five minutes left of class he decides blowing things up and putting stuff in liquid nitrogen is more fun than significant digits. To demonstrate the funness (that's not a word but bear with me) of liquid nitrogen he goes and pours a bunch of it onto the ground so it spreads across the floor steaming and fizzling. So that was chemistry 121. Mostly review of high school chemistry and blowing stuff up - I think I'll enjoy chemistry considerably more now than i did in high school.

My next class was another interesting one, Beginning Martial Arts As far as I'm aware all of the PE classes take place in Carver Gymnasium. once I arrive there this morning all the doors are locked and there are several other people waiting to get in. A few minutes later there are more. After a little while longer we come to discover that you don't actually go into the gym through the front doors, but through the side doors. It totally makes sense right? Anyway, we get to where we are supposed to be. Our teacher comes in takes roll, hands out the waiver we go over it and sign it; we won't sue, we won't come to class sick, blah blah. With all the paper work over comes the fun stuff. Once all of us were spread out across the gym he enlightened us on the type of martial art we were learning: Kempo. Kempo is an American martial art that has no holds barred, anything that you can do to get out of a situation is okay, any nifty trick from any martial art or style of fighting can be used. What we learned how to do today was to get out of a bear hug type hold or a hold called a Full Nelson. this was way fun because we split into partners and essentially learned how to go from being stuck to lifting our attacker up. If we were actually fighting we would proceed past the lifting up and slam them onto the floor or a wall, however we didn't do that in class. He told us afterward that he's not really supposed to teach anything on the first day but you can do this in just about any clothes so it didn't really matter. and we were still able to leave about 20 minutes early.

Nothing particularly interesting has happened in anthropology yet. I believe that what we learn will be interesting but the class itself will be kind of boring. If that makes any sense...At that moment we are learning about what anthropology actually means and what is involved in participating in it. We are learning about cultural anthropology which apparently is one of four pieces of anthropology as a whole.

Finally, math. this class I think will be pretty easy. Most of it seems to be a review of the past to years which will be good to get back into the math mind set before moving onto completely new material.

So, those are my classes.