Monday, January 10, 2011

Welcome Back, Kids!

(One more year until the Mayan Calendar claims our fate.
Better get working on your bucket lists, people.)


With a New Year brings a new semester. With a new semester brings yet another 13 weeks of hard work and stress. This being said, can we make it through yet another year at the University of West Florida?

Yes we can! (Apologies for using the most overused phrase of the 2008 elections. It felt fitting.)

With this semester brings a lot of new changes and goals for me. I hope to finish up my last two Spanish courses so I can get my minor in, well, Spanish. I’ve also started working on coursework for the International Studies minor I’ve recently applied for.

With the first week down, I can’t help but feel like the atmosphere at UWF is a bit…different. It might just be the cold weather or the fact that there are no leaves on the trees.

No but seriously, I feel like there are more people around here. My classes this semester seem unusually large, which is a bit discomforting. More students stuffed in the same classroom will eventually mean less focus on individual students.

Take my Spanish Composition and Conversation class as an example. Approximately 20 students are enrolled in this class right now. When you have a large foreign language class, you know for a fact that not everybody is going to be on the same level, so you have to find that balance and work from there.

Magnifico. This means I have to dumb down my Spanish.

All is not lost though. I have four other courses that will keep me busy.

Good luck to everyone this semester.

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