Midterms/Room Cleanup

First I'd like to correct myself -- the previous post was about the InterCultural Forum which I incorrectly referred to as the International Forum. I'm too lazy to go back and fix it.

Anyhow it's midterm time. Pretty weird that the 12-week is already half over -- it still feels somewhat like the beginning of the semester.

Classes are going pretty well so far. I didn't really notice it at the time when I was registering for classes, but I pretty much have the schedule of a philosophy major now that I look at it. I'm taking Ancient Philosophy, 19th Century Philosophy, and my Freshman Seminar is the Quest for Justice (which is a political philosophy class). It's good stuff.

I can definetely say, though, that my 19th Century Philosophy class is some of the hardest (if not the hardest) material I've ever learned in my life. Maybe part of the issue is that I'm just not accustomed to reading Philosophy. Reading Philosophy is not like reading other things; there have been times when I've spent 5-10 minutes comprehending a single sentence (it doesn't help that single sentences are often 5 lines long).

At any rate, it's a lot different than anything I've really studied before, and a lot more difficult than most things I've ever had to do.

My professor is a cool dude, though.

On Monday I took my midterm in that class. . . I reviewed my notes etc. fairly extensively and, to my surprise, felt that I had a decent hold on all of the questions on the test. By friday (hopefully) I'll see if I'm right :-/

I have another midterm coming up on Friday. . .

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On another note, my room finally got trashed enough that my roommate and I decided it was time to clean it. Jim had the idea to actually CLEAN the room this time (as opposed to organizing everything, picking up trash, etc). I agreed. So, we actually went to the store, bought cleaning supplies, and CLEANED the room.

We went all out; we moved the couch, took out the carpet, etc., and sweeped and mopped all of the floors. We vacuumed the carpet, through away 4 bags of garbage, and organized everything.

Photographic confirmation:

Jim doing something

Middle of the process...

All of our stuff out in the hallway

I didn't take pictures of it "after", but let's just say that 4 hours later, the room was sparkling clean, organized, and smelled like lemon.

--David