Wednesday, March 03, 2010
First day of school today! And they did not go easy on us. Clearly the expectations of honours students are a lot higher. To start, our first day is a five and a half hour stretch of lectures without any breaks! I like how the coordinator takes a personal interest in the students welfare though, I suppose it is possible with a small class size. He suggested a honours welfare night (the terminology reminded me a lot of my army days), I recall that paintball, hand-gliding, skiing were among the options, but he doubted that the dean would approve of any, so he said it's most likely that we'd be going bowling with pizza.
I've been giving my subject selection some thought over the last few days. Wasn't quite sure if I wanted to take all honours year subjects, especially since there were some third year subjects that tickled my interest. But the coordinator told us that he would highly discourage it because more is expected of us, and said he was greatly saddened when an honours student said he wanted to do a 3rd year subject because it was easier.
Now I've directed my attention to my thesis topic, and it is not easy! I thought I had it in my head, but the more I search for a source article, the more I feel naive in my initial ideas. This is going to be a long year.
Dan
10:57 pm
