studentdriver

I haven't been doing a good job at keeping up with posting on here. Sorry for the one or two of you who actually have occasion to read this thing, then.

Anyway. The Spring 07 semester ended fairly well-- 4.0s all around; I expected that grade in chaos and the last of the mentoring classes, but I was really surprised to pull it off in analysis II. As I told someone at the time, I got through analysis through a combination of mercy and serendipity; my professor decided to drop the test everyone bombed, and (in doing personal research) I happened upon a single example of a concept from the class that happened to be reflected in the final exam. Like, the exact question on the exam was one I'd happened to read the solution to the night before. Pure luck.

So, I'm still at a 4.0 overall, with 90 credit hours done. Whoo-hoo. I owe 12 more credit hours to the math part of things, then it's just a matter of mopping up; speech, another composition class, a couple of other science courses, my "secondary concentration."

I have a while longer to go, however, to finish everything, since I officially declared a "double degree," with the goal now of picking up a degree in philosophy as well as in mathematics. The difference between the "secondary concentration" in philosophy I'd planned on doing and a full philosophy major turned out to be 6 hours... two classes. I figured I'd go ahead and get the full deal. I'm not sure what the distinction a "double degree" has from "double major," but everyone from the liberal arts areas took pains to correct me in my terminology. "Double degree." Yippee. I guess it's to keep things straight in the school's paperwork, since now I'm majoring in something from IU as well as from Purdue.

What's strange is that I have no idea what I'm in for. I've taken no philosophy classes beyond the one logic class. I looked at the philosophy classes on offer, and I'm like "uh..." (Which, frankly, has been my reaction whenever I've tried to read any of the existentialists...) Everyone's patted my back, told me I can do this, so I've tossed my hat into the ring. The philosophy advisor with whom I met was all cheers and smiles, praising my ability to do this, and she was pushing me to begin 400-level stuff this fall... which is flattering and f'ing terrifying. Nice that people who barely know me sense some ability to reason and/or write position papers, but... shouldn't I prove my abilities before they're praised?

So, what's up beyond school? Not much. After a week or three of sleeping in, allowing my sanity to rebuild after this semester, I've managed to go out dancing a couple of times, see a single movie in a theater (Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times), and... yeah, that's it. No real social interaction. Oh, wait, I went to a picnic thing held by the philosophy club... so that's kinda school related. (And, as an aside, I think on a personality level, I'll have more in common with these folks than my fellow math students... I was able to do a little small-talk with a couple of them, which was nice and uncommon, and a good three-quarters of them were vegetarian. Nice!)

Tried a couple more times to get hold of Heather, to no success. I think I've truly been dumped, but I don't have closure, and... yeah. I have no idea what I'm supposed to do about that. I still don't feel comfortable looking around, occasional random flirtations aside. Bleah.

Yay. I'll be 33 this summer... another year older, another year too old to really be out looking for someone...