I found out while I was web-surfing during afternoon lab that freshman seminar applications are due by tomorrow night. Last year, I took a poetry seminar with Neil Rudenstein on Yeats, Eliot, and Auden. Unfortunately, I didn't learn that much because Professor Rudenstein didn't say as much as the ignorant freshman around the table did. But I think I'm going to give freshman seminar a second go since I have the chance. If I get in, I can always decide to pass on it later. But if I don't apply, I won't have another chance. My first choice is called Great Books: Ideas and Arguments taught jointly by Robert George and Cornel West on the great classical, medieval, and modern philosophers. My second choice is Who Is My Neighbor? Globalization and the Good Samaritan taught by Eric Gregory. My first choice conflicts with International Relations which I had refrained from taking this semester so I could take it with the professor who's teaching it in spring. But my friend pointed out that I can take International Relations any year whereas I won't be able to take any freshman seminars after spring semester. Still, I don't know that I'll get in (I'm sure Cornel West and Robert George are in high demand), or that the course will be as great as it sounds (Who knows if the professors are as great as they're hyped to be?) But still, I'm excited about courses.

However, I do wish the school year were longer. I can't believe that I already have to think about choosing courses again. I still haven't absorbed what I want to get out of the classes I'm taking right now. Oh, a bonus for Gregory's class--we'll be reading Melville, though perhaps not Moby Dick. I've started on your paper Cliff, but I'll need time to digest. Also, I will need to read the book eventually, epic that it is.

Wow, it's almost midnight. Better stop procrastinating and get to work.