14 April 2008

Registration is in the Air

The end of the semester is upon us and as the flowers struggle up through the melting frost (yeah right) the time for pre-registration is come. We just got our pre-reg packets which include our yellow card, tons of fliers, other random spammy papers, and the all important course catalog for the 5C's. Here's the idea: Similar to room draw, everyone at Mudd, by class, gets a time slot to register for classes next semester (officially registration isn't until next semester starts, but we pick our classes and everything now during pre-registration). We fill out the provided card with the classes we wish to take (as well as some alternates in case classes fill before we get to register) and have it signed by both our humanities adviser and our technical adviser. When the time comes we stand in a huge and delayed line, skipping classes and playing general havoc with the school to try to get into the classes we need to graduate.

Tentatively, my schedule for next semester looks like this:
  • CS Clinic (cool industry research/work project class)
  • CS Colloquium (get talked at for an hour a week by people doing CS-y things)
  • Computer Vision (taught by Zach Dodds, who is Awesome, about once a decade)
  • Occult and Magical Philosophy (taking it on Pitzer with friends -- fills Humanities reqs.)
  • Some Language Class
    • German -- 4 days a week and I've wanted to take it for a while.
    • Japanese -- possibly quite useful, but 5 days a week and people tell me it's hard/huge time requirement.
    • Chinese -- 5 days a week, but taught on Mudd by a new prof. Fills an on-campus hum req. but new prof is a gamble. I'm not remarkably interested in it.
    • Russian -- 5 days a week. Slavic language may be useful for travel in Eastern Europe.
  • Some Other Class
    • Project Management -- Engineering class, may have overlap with Software Design.
    • Networks -- I don't know much about computer networks and I really should learn.
    • Enterprise and Entrepreneurs -- Econ class on Mudd, fills on-campus hum req. Easy prof.
    • Materials Science & Energy Conversion/Storage -- something cross listed under Chem, Engineering, and Physics. Sounds interesting, but held at 8:00-9:15pm
Pretty cool choices, this semester, all in all. Oh, and for those of you who wondered, VLSI has improved immensely -- we got the microcode done and are just puttering around with optimization now. I still have to start that research paper, but I'm really enjoying myself at the moment.

~KMarsh

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