Almost Thanksgiving

Apparently, I have been a horrible blogger. Has it really been three months since I last posted? Yikes.

I'll try to make this update short since I've got a meeting soon.

Life in St. Cloud has been wonderful. I can't say enough good things about my art history classes and the joy I feel when I'm in them. I just finished an 8-page research paper for my European 19th Century Painting and Sculpture class. Since I love the Impressionists so much, I wrote my paper about the first Impressionist exhibit in 1874. For my Baroque and Rococo class, I wrote a research paper that compared a work by Watteau with a work by Diego Velazquez. (I tried to take advantage of the fact that I could read sources in Spanish, but I didn't find any.)

As far as my Spanish class goes, I feel like I'm barely keeping my head above the water. My comprehension in class is fine, but when I'm doing Internet research for assignments and everything is in Spanish, I have a hard time discerning the meanings of most the words. It's very frustrating. I am reading my textbook, though, and trying to build up my vocabulary as that seems to be what my primary lack is.

My other two classes are not very challenging. Ethnic Studies is fairly interesting, and all we do in my Honors democracy class is write papers and meet once a week to discuss them.

I met with my Honors advisor on Tuesday to see what gen ed requirements I still needed to fulfill. Three of my gen eds from Olivet (Biology lab science, philosophy, and math) transferred but did not initially meet St. Cloud's requirements (or something). I was hoping that my advisor could pull some strings for me since I'm a double major and I would love to get finished in 3 semesters as planned. She thankfully accepted the three credits from Olivet, so now all I need for my gen eds is Communications (speech class) and a non-lab science. It was such a relief to know that I only have to take two more gen eds instead of five.

I still need to meet with both my Spanish and Art History advisors to not only talk about what classes I should take next semester but to discuss what could do with my majors after college. I haven't really thought about it too much... I know that may sound silly, but hey, it took me two years of college before I actually realized what I wanted to major in, so...

Anyway, it's meeting time. I will try to post more art-related news in the future.