1st day of class, 1st day of confusion

Well, today went well more or less. Could have done with a little less frustration, but oh well - live and learn, right? The day started out very well with my celtic lit class. Small, only about 15 people, topics sound really interesting (we switch off lecture, discussion, lecture, discussion dealing with both medieval welsh lit and early irish lit... awesome). Plus there are a lot of international students who are in the same situation as me (not having celtic civ background), so i feel much more at ease.

The trouble started when i went on to my scottish lit class. This turned out to be a huge lecture, whose form i found out would be 2 lectures with both scottish lit and english lit students getting the same broad english lecture, then friday lecture would be on a specific text for each area, and then a tutorial (discussion section) as well. Not that this wasn't a little offputting itself, but as i looked over the lecture topics they seemed to highly resemble those of my freshmen year english lit traditions course at NU... bottom line = no way northwestern would give me credit for this class which was like one i took for a PRErequisite to declare my english major. So i went to talk with my DOS... conversation as follows:
DOS: Well why did you register for this class in the first place, you are qualified for honors level english courses here.
Me: I wasn't aware of that, no one told me. I just chose from what was offered on the visiting student prospectus.
DOS: Well we should have talked about this last week.
Me: *in head* WELL MAYBE YOU SHOULD HAVE TOLD ME THIS LAST WEEK.
ARGH

Anyways, it's all over and done with now... it just created a bit of a hassle with me running around trying to figure out which honors level courses to take (out of the ones which were still open) and talking to this poor frazzled lady who probably wanted to shoot me. But it's all worked out now(hopefully) SO now i'm taking the following: Celtic Lit still, 20th C. Feminist Fictions (in which we're watching Pretty Woman, sweeeeeet), and Medieval Dream Vision(we'll see how this turns out, its on Thurs...). Since scottish lit was all year, i also added a course called celtic revival lit next semester - this should be perfect since i'm not taking the second part of celtic lit that would cover the more modern texts.

Unfortunately because of all this confusion i ended up missing the first class meeting for the feminist course... i tried to go late, but got lost in the building (which is a huge maze-like tower, currently under construction) and had to give up eventually. Especially frustrating since the honors levels courses only meet once a week (for 2 hrs) and then have a weekly tutorial, that i would have signed up for had i been at class... i guess being a freshmen again definitely has its ups and downs!

Ok, sorry i had to release some frustration on the blog. Hope most of you non-avid Rachel blog checkers skipped over upon seeing no pretty pictures ; )

Off to start reading my first (and only until i find a cheaper used bookstore) book, Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber.

~R