First week of 3rd quarter

Man...2.5 weeks-ish of sitting around a lot makes you sore when you suddenly walk 4 miles in one day! Because I have a break in between all my classes...I will be walking to and from classes almost every time (unless there's a lunch thingy on Tues/Thurs). That's a lot of walking since it's about a mile one way (approx 16 miles/week)! Today I walked probably more than that because I had to detour to the UCen and then to the Registrar's Office and then headed back home. Should be some nice exercise, though. It is getting hot here, though. It was in the low 70's today, but no wind and just full on bright sun. The funny thing about the weather today is the fact it's supposed to rain/drizzle all week. I think Santa Barbara is just mean like that. On the other hand, it'll be nice not to fry while walking to class. Plus, I need to start wearing a hat or something. My face is getting way too much sun. Since it's nice out again, I'm going to try biking on the weekends again. My lovely 6-8 mile ride. It'll be a nice thing to do to get me out of the apartment!

Anyway, I had 2 classes today and the funny thing is that 2 classes are cancelled this week. I don't have my afternoon class on Tues and no morning class on Wed. An already light week (no hw, sort of, yet!) is even lighter!

Natural Resource Economics (ESM 242 - Mon/Wed 9:30-10:45am) should be interesting. It sounds interesting, but I'm a little worried about the extensive Solver usage. I haven't used Solver since the workshop at the beginning of 2nd quarter. So...that should be a nice trial-and-error for the first homework! There is a term paper/presentation in this class, a midterm, and homework. So that's not too bad. Term paper kind of reminds me of my capstone paper, though. So...bad memories are resurfacing, but it should be good -- once a question is picked and the data obtained.

Stats Part B (ESM 206B - Mon/Wed 2-3:15pm) is pretty much the same as last quarter, but the continuation of the class. Three homework assignments and that's it! The homework assignments are pretty labor intensive, but it should be okay.

Tomorrow morning/afternoon (Tues/Thurs 11-12:15) is my Coastal Marine Processes (ESM 254) class. The textbooks remind me very much of oceanography so if it's just that...it shouldn't be too bad of a class. It's supposedly a pretty easy class (so the professor said last quarter, but we'll see once I read this quarter's syllabus). I did look at the syllabus from last year and it's just short writing assignments with a slightly longer paper/presentation, but that's it. Not bad!

Tomorrow afternoon (Tues/Thurs 2-3:15pm) is my 401A class (Group Project A), but it's been cancelled. It's in the afternoon and it's basically to talk about the group project and the proposal we have to write. 401 comes in 3 parts: A, B, and C. This quarter for A I think we're just writing a proposal for our project (not sure) and collecting data and all that stuff. Not sure what classes will be like. We don't have class all the time (they took out some classes based on reviews from past years) so that should be nice.

ESM 207 (Environmental Law and Policy) won't start till May. It's 9 days (including weekends) and at least 3 hours a day. So...that should be interesting. A professor from Duke comes out and teaches it. That class at least has a final and maybe some short assignments (based on previous year syllabus), but we'll see. Intensive courses are nice and horrible at the same time. Nice because you only have the class for a short amount of time, but horrible because you live and breath it along with your other classes too. You're just glad it's finished when it's finished.

Anyway, with that. Time to shower and try and relax early. :)

Oh, one thing. The male shrimp is still in the tank...I decided not to bother returning him as long as I don't see anymore than 3 shrimp in my tank! So...23 birthings/year, here I come! Yes, my 2nd female has a new set of eggs too. The joys of owning a fish tank...