I am officially finished with my first week of university classes. I guess I should do a brief run down of each class.
Animal Science lecture seems like it should be a pretty easy class for me to get an A in. Apparently there are about eight trillion different types of cows and I will be learning how to identify each and every one of them. Before this week, I honestly thought that the only types of cows were black and white ones and brown ones. And those were my highly technical names for them. And my technical jargon for goats? “Oh, look at the little babies!!!”
The animal science lab seems like it will be pretty interesting. We’re going to visit a dairy, a feed lot and a place where they shear sheep. I have never been to any place like that in my life, so it will be an adventure. I also met a couple of kids in this lab who I exchanged numbers with and I think I’m going to join Block and Bridle club with them. Don’t make fun of me for that, I’m an agriculture major!
Chemistry is hard to focus in. The teacher talks super fast and his most used phrase is “but we’ll talk more about that later.” He constantly says that and it drives me crazy. If we’re not going to learn it yet, don’t bring it up! He completely reminds me of Mr. Harvey Korman, the hypochondriac from Scrubs. It’s crazy.
I don’t have too much to say about the chemistry lab yet. The people in there seem okay so we’ll see how it goes.
Government is boring boring boring. The teacher is a question talker so I get so distracted in the middle of taking notes. He just trails off a lot in the middle of thoughts. And he told us on the first day that his tests are multiple choice but very hard. On the plus side, he’s from Chicago and is not too bad to look at so I can’t complain too much.
Principles of Range Management is okay, I guess. I’m only taking it because it’s a requirement for my degree. I get to learn about how to sustain rangelands and in the lab we are learning to identify about a bajillion different types of grasses. There is a quiz on that in two weeks so I have plans to go out there to the ASU ranch thingy with a few girls from class to study those grasses like crazy.
And then there is my required computer class which we will not even talk about. That’s how stupid it is.
So that’s it so far. Me, as a university student. If you had told me five years ago that I would be in west texas riding around in the bed of a truck in the middle of nowhere and trekking through pastures to identify grasses, I would have laughed so hard. But that’s where I am now. And from where I’m standing, life looks beautiful.
You grew up and you sparkled
