Day 86

Monday April 14

As for the tests, the Art and Architecture test was not a joke. Infact it was a bruiser. I don't know how I did. There was information asked about that I had not studied, nor did I know I was supposed to study. I heard later that 7 people dropped the class after the test. I don't have the option to drop the class nor would I if I could. I just don't quit if it's tough. I could have studied more on Friday, Saturday, or Sunday or the whole previous week. I didn't think it would be that tough, but it was, and next time I will just have to adapt and overcome. I mean that's life.

As for the test in Ivan the terrible, it was a joke I think. There wasn't any surprises and I just wrote down everything that I had studied. Whether that is enough for him is another question though.

The third big thing of the day was that I registered for classes. This went amazingly well. The only downside is that I didn't get into a 2nd philo with Danny as I had wanted. I did get into another good philo though. But next year will be unbelievable. Not only am I only taking four classes and no arabic, but I have a four day weekend. 3 of the classes were on tuesday and thursday and the fourth is a two hour seminar on wednesday. I will have so much more time to do everything else that matters at Notre Dame. I am quite excited about this.

I am most excited about my Wednesday seminar class. Its called Environmental Justice, and there are no tests in it. However, it makes you take actually work on an environmental issue and make some change in the world. Its a project based class. Since this is what I wanted to do for my extracurricular activities, this will fit in perfectly. Basically for my classes, I am taking as many Peace Studies classes as possible in order to try to find something that really strikes my interest and gives me a different option to the Marines. I will also take the Community Organizing seminar for the winter break to see if that path is what I want to do. In summary, next year is going to be unbelievable.