Best. Courses. Ever.

I said in a previous post that I was really looking forward to uni this year. This was mostly on account of one particular course, which is an advanced research based course, with highly exclusive numbers (ie, only accepts 5 people). As I come to the end of my first week of uni - that's right, 2 days a week, I have now gone to the introductory lectures for each course.

Not only was this special course incredibly exciting and potentially a game-changer for me and my understanding of what a normal uni course is, but one of my other courses really surprised me. I've lamented in the past that I'd yet to come across the stereotypical eccentric professor, the one who is supremely amiable and understanding without the condescension, the one who has the perfect ethos of student-lecturer relationship and a strong paradigm for teaching.

This guy isn't exactly it, but he's certainly going to be the closest I get to that idealised professor. This other social psychology course just excites me. I was enthralled just by the way the course was structured and how assessments were made. I was ecstatic about the way he delivered his speech. I was enamored by the course material he presented, and I suspect some of that will stay with me for a very long time to come. If anything, it represents a lot of my first year at uni, where I remember so much from my linguistics courses, just because of how interesting and foreign it was to me.

I have high hopes for this course. As well as the special course.

The other two...? Not so good :P

I noted earlier today that the two good courses were the ones without textbooks and the ones that had them weren't as good. I maintain that that is just pure coincidence ;) Textbooks will cost me an arm and a leg this semester ... not looking forward to it.