To Drop Or Not To Drop

*Written Aug 27th, 10:19am*
Central Dining Hall


So I’m meeting a good friend here at Central for some “brunch”, but I got here a little early so I decided to blog a bit about some thoughts I had on my walk here.

My first class of the day is Elementary Greek, a class that is “just getting off the ground here at Appalachian” (according to the professor). I took it because I’m a history major and I thought that taking Greek would be a cool way to learn more about the Greek culture and their history. Now, while that might still be true, I got to class yesterday and the professor made it quite plain that the class was about learning the Greek language. I’m not a foreign language person, at all. My mind just doesn’t work the way it needs to to learn a new language (ask my high school French teacher, Natalie Turner, who now works with App’s International Program), especially one with a different lettering system then English like Greek. So, I’m contemplating dropping that class and picking up another one, I just don’t know what to take. I would prefer to take a history course, but I don’t know what I need to take so I’ve got to do some perusing this afternoon I guess.

*** - By the way, I’m not putting down the Greek class or the professor down at all. If you’re at all interested in learning the Greek language, I highly recommend the course. The professor seemed to know what he was talking about and he very clearly went through the Greek alphabet with us, its just that I’m not good at that stuff...at all.

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Aug 27th 2:30om
The LLC


Went to see my advisor (she rocks!) about switching Greek and I got it all worked out. Instead of taking Greek at 9am MWF I’m now taking Intro to Ancient Mediterranean or something like that on TR at 9:30. Pretty cool switch I think, so I’m stoked it all worked out.