Okay after the spending the past semester in the spending the entire time posting about my self important musing about Tokyo, I have decided to kick it up a notch and post something even more self-indulgent, let’s talk about my CLASSES! I will try to make it better by inviting anyone else to do the same.

Thermodynamics: No frills level 300 physics class. Book was under 50 boom boom dollars which is crazy for a physics text and the first problem set was an easy introduction back to physics problem sets and was actually kindof refreshing. Let’s hope it stays that way.

Computer Science 2: We are programming in Java, and let me say, for being famous for bad hygiene and social awkwardness I think computer programmers are really cute. Or at least their puns in Java are. The condensed version is called Espresso, there is another thing called java.beans and I hope to find more!

Film Studies special topic: Body Culture Technology: Do you know what that title means? I sure don’t. When we went around in class we had to say why we picked that class to study. I really had no idea what the class what about (it switched topics while i was in japan). So I said, “The things this course covers seems interesting to me.” As far as I can tell the class is a post-modern look at how technology changes the way we view the distinctions between body mind and space, and using films as texts to see how the common man views this distinction. The interesting thing about it is because we are interested in that we are actually watching what I would consider pretty bad movies, like Hackers. I dunno I am terrified because to me post-modernism basically means I can’t understand it. I looked at a reasonable sample of the 20 or so books we will be using this term and all of them on Amazon have reviews saying that they were incredibly hard reads! YAY! I kindof like the dichotomy of reading incredibly elitist books and watching base movies. I hope I can keep up.

Japanese Literature and Film: Wow… It really frustrates me to have just completed a 3.5 month homestay and trying to seriously study Japanese culture and rid myself of those simple monolithic statements about Japan, to sit in a class filled with Japanophile people mapping how they feel about Japan. It sucks that in a class that is supposed to be a serious study of japanese feminist writers a group wrote that Japan had “Cute Girlz!”. Or the group that spent the whole period making Ninja jokes. Ugh. I know i didn’t make friends when I told someone they were probably better off for not knowing J-Pop. The teacher and I bonded because she lived off the same train line I lived off of in Tokyo. Chuo-sen for lyfe! RESPEK!
Well, I hope someone else does a class thingy!