I’m beginning to find Mondays and Wednesdays sort of depressing because they’re filled with anywhere from three to four and a half hours of computer science classes that I’m just not very enthusiastic about. One of them is a database class that I talked my way into depsite not having done the prerequisite - I thought it would be challenging, but it looks like it’s going to be both too easy and not interesting enough to make up for it. The teacher’s great, and it’s certainly not her fault that the class isn’t what I was expecting, but it isn’t - the only material on the syllabus that I don’t already know is material I’m not at all interested in learning (like Access). I’m reluctant to drop the course entirely because I know things can change after the first couple of weeks, but since I don’t actually need the credits, it’s always an option.

My other CS class is more challenging, but also a little frustrating. It’s primarily concerned with data structures and algorithms, which is great, but I’m one of the few people in the class who took the previous course in the series with a different professor than the one we’ve got now - his teaching style is radically different from anything I’m used to in CS, so it’s going to take a little longer for me to feel comfortable in the class. We’re still doing introductory and review stuff from last term now, but I think once we get into the meat of the course I’ll like it more.

I guess the bright side is that I don’t have any 9:30am classes this semester - although once the seminar I’m auditing begins in March, my Mondays and Wednesdays will go from 11am till 8pm.