September 29, 2005 Chris, Yang, and Shelley gave interesting talks about their experiences at Stanford during the A3C Speaker Series. The food came from the truck, which was really great. Chris talked about his “major” crisis. Chinese was interesting today – we learned some expressions and even had to perform a dialogue in front of [...]
September 28, 2005 After bearing another Russian history course and taking notes during an interesting lecture on 19th century conceptions of race, I found myself at the A3C, doing some catch-up reading for CASA (since I moved section to 1) and some other random work. Section for CASA was interesting, but a little burdensome because [...]
September 27, 2005 Second day of classes. History 120A wasn’t any better and Professor Kollman rambled about Russia with some mediocre slides. Lunch was likewise mediocre – stupid buffet food. I miss Tokyo food! Chinese Language 6 – Beginning Conversational Chinese. I’m excited about this course! The intructor is really nice and we only speak [...]
September 26, 2005 First day of classes! History 120A – Russia 988-1762 first. Professor Kollman wasn’t very exciting and she couldn’t get her slide projector working, so it was kind of pointless to go, except to get the syllabus. However, the workload doesn’t seem like too much and only 15 people came today. CASA 88 [...]
September 25, 2005 Eric, Chris, Mariana, Harry, and I had our first taste of Wilbur brunch this morning. I have to say the quality has gone down slightly, with less grab ‘n go juices and bags of food that we normally could have. I got the same thing I usually get though – an English [...]