Dear Blogger,
It has been a while, hasn't it?
This weekend was fairly busy. Friday we had our mural presentation at our teacher's house where he made us blueberry pancakes and we watched everyone's presentations. Then Scott, our teacher, talked about segregation in Hyde Park for a long time. Apparently the university considered abandoning its campus during the early fifties when the neighborhood was beginning to change. (Imagine leaving all those beautiful gothic buildings to rot!) They decided to stay, eventually becoming the saving grace of this neighborhood. But of course, since no segregation story at all is pretty to listen to, Hyde Park's integration comes at a price. This neighborhood, being different (affluent) from the other neighborhoods, they try to keep themselves separate. Meaning that I never noticed it, but there are NO public basketball hoops anywhere in Hyde Park, except in a park near a high school somewhere southeast of where I live... and these hoops are taken down at night. Why? Because the Hyde Park community is taking precautions to keep younger people who might be wandering into the neighborhood with no strong ambitions at the moment, who might then start playing basketball, which might then stand around, which then lead them to become bored, which might then lead them to start trouble. In Hyde Park.
Friday I went to the Great American Six Flags, in Waukegan where my friend Ashly works and didn't have to spend any money, and was in a Zabel Sandwich most of that time. Saturday, I came back into Chicago on the Metra, got back to 1447 at one, left at 6:30 to see The Darjeeling Limited. (Pretty good, no Royal Tenenbaums, of couse. But there were some really touching moments) Got stuck in the middle of downtown Chicago on a Saturday night along with the rest of everyone else in the city, and the trip home on the 6 took forty minutes longer than it usually does.
And because I'm off-campus this semester, and because Drew is also off-campus (sabbatical), I have a stand-in advisor, Mareike Weith. Now, the problem here is that I'm not really a psychology major at all anymore. (I forgot/made a last minute decision to drop that major and didn't have time to switch to Sociology.) So now I have to explain to this woman that I don't really need her advice, and why I was to dumb to change my major.
But here's my potential schedule:
Social Research (MWRF, 9-10) Dimeji Togunde (Required for sociology majors)
Men & Masculinities (TR, 3-4:30) Scott Melzer
Introductory Geology (MWF, 12-1) Beth Lincoln (Science requirement)
LAB (W, 2-5) Also with Beth Lincoln
Social Psych: Soc Perspectives (TR, 10-12) Scott Melzer
Badminton & Tennis (TR, 1-2) Scott Frew
Now, I realize that I have two classes with Scott Melzer. Okay, I do like Scott Melzer. But is it really worth it? I have these modes and categories things to fill, after all. At the same time as Melzer's Men & Masculinities, my old friend in the anthropology department, Hadley Renkin is teaching:
Environmental Anthropology (TR, 3-4:30)
It fulfills the mysterious Environmental category. But it also seems interesting. I have to make that decision.
And Keith also talked me into applying for Summer FURSCA. I have to e-mail someone in the A&S department, probably Scott Melzer, and ask if they'll have me. I'm at a loss, I don't really know what I want to research but that I want to do it. The best thing is to just jump on it, I guess. I'm going to e-mail him very very soon.
Rock & Roll For Toopy,
Steve
It has been a while, hasn't it?
This weekend was fairly busy. Friday we had our mural presentation at our teacher's house where he made us blueberry pancakes and we watched everyone's presentations. Then Scott, our teacher, talked about segregation in Hyde Park for a long time. Apparently the university considered abandoning its campus during the early fifties when the neighborhood was beginning to change. (Imagine leaving all those beautiful gothic buildings to rot!) They decided to stay, eventually becoming the saving grace of this neighborhood. But of course, since no segregation story at all is pretty to listen to, Hyde Park's integration comes at a price. This neighborhood, being different (affluent) from the other neighborhoods, they try to keep themselves separate. Meaning that I never noticed it, but there are NO public basketball hoops anywhere in Hyde Park, except in a park near a high school somewhere southeast of where I live... and these hoops are taken down at night. Why? Because the Hyde Park community is taking precautions to keep younger people who might be wandering into the neighborhood with no strong ambitions at the moment, who might then start playing basketball, which might then stand around, which then lead them to become bored, which might then lead them to start trouble. In Hyde Park.
Friday I went to the Great American Six Flags, in Waukegan where my friend Ashly works and didn't have to spend any money, and was in a Zabel Sandwich most of that time. Saturday, I came back into Chicago on the Metra, got back to 1447 at one, left at 6:30 to see The Darjeeling Limited. (Pretty good, no Royal Tenenbaums, of couse. But there were some really touching moments) Got stuck in the middle of downtown Chicago on a Saturday night along with the rest of everyone else in the city, and the trip home on the 6 took forty minutes longer than it usually does.
And because I'm off-campus this semester, and because Drew is also off-campus (sabbatical), I have a stand-in advisor, Mareike Weith. Now, the problem here is that I'm not really a psychology major at all anymore. (I forgot/made a last minute decision to drop that major and didn't have time to switch to Sociology.) So now I have to explain to this woman that I don't really need her advice, and why I was to dumb to change my major.
But here's my potential schedule:
Social Research (MWRF, 9-10) Dimeji Togunde (Required for sociology majors)
Men & Masculinities (TR, 3-4:30) Scott Melzer
Introductory Geology (MWF, 12-1) Beth Lincoln (Science requirement)
LAB (W, 2-5) Also with Beth Lincoln
Social Psych: Soc Perspectives (TR, 10-12) Scott Melzer
Badminton & Tennis (TR, 1-2) Scott Frew
Now, I realize that I have two classes with Scott Melzer. Okay, I do like Scott Melzer. But is it really worth it? I have these modes and categories things to fill, after all. At the same time as Melzer's Men & Masculinities, my old friend in the anthropology department, Hadley Renkin is teaching:
Environmental Anthropology (TR, 3-4:30)
It fulfills the mysterious Environmental category. But it also seems interesting. I have to make that decision.
And Keith also talked me into applying for Summer FURSCA. I have to e-mail someone in the A&S department, probably Scott Melzer, and ask if they'll have me. I'm at a loss, I don't really know what I want to research but that I want to do it. The best thing is to just jump on it, I guess. I'm going to e-mail him very very soon.
Rock & Roll For Toopy,
Steve
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