The Results Are In

I'm just about recovered from the stresses of this past semester. I was really happy to find that I didn't do as badly as I thought this semester:

Gothic Art (A)
Early Greek Art (A)
Italian Renaissance and Baroque Architecture (A)
Women and the Law (B)

I was not very optimistic about Early Greek Art and I was a bit more optimistic in Women and Law, but I guess it all worked out in the end. Terror always strikes around finals.

I took Women and the Law to fulfill an elective requirement as well as to get a feel for what it would be like to study law since it was one of my career options after graduation. Although studying appellate cases is interesting, I don't think that I would be satisfied with being a lawyer. At this point, I am even more certain that I would like to continue my education in Medieval Studies.

In order to further that goal, I'm hoping to take the GRE exam this summer. I have not touched mathematics for many years now, so I will need to start brushing up on it soon!

Finals are Finally Over!

I'm so relieved that finals are over...at least for this semester. I'm looking forward to reading some books I have picked out for summer reading:

Paganism & Christianity -- 100-425 CE, MacMullen and Lane
Warriors of God, James Reston, Jr.
The Mongols, Morgan
The Cult of the Saints, Peter Brown
The Theory of the Leisure Class, Veblen
The Virtue of Selfishness, Ayn Rand
Lost Scriptures -- Books that Did Not Make It into the New Testament, Ehrman
Presentation S.O.S. -- From Presentation to Persuation in 9 Easy Steps, Mark Wiskup
The Crystal Cave -- Book One of the Arthurian Saga, Mary Stewart
The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
The Letters of Abelard and Heloise
Montaillou, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
Selected Poems, W.B. Yeats
The Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels
Inventing the Middle Ages, Norman F. Cantor
Saladin, Lyons and Jackson
Brisingr, Paolini

I wonder if I can get through them all... I got most of the books through trading books that I didn't want through BookMooch. Unfortunately I didn't have time to read them because of school, but now I'm going to indulge in books I want to read instead of being made to read assigned books. Yay!

Why, oh why !?

Why did I ever decide to take three art history classes this semester!? I had vowed never to take more than one per semester since I would rather have more time to study a subject in depth than to take on too much information only to know the subject superficially. I guess I was a bit greedy in choosing to do two majors, but I felt that it was a shame to have so much time invested in school and art history classes not to come out of it with a degree in art history. Everything just seemed to have fallen apart around midterms. With all the extra work in Gothic class, there seemed to be little time for everything else. This semester I felt that I was constantly putting out the fire in one class or another as projects, exams and papers were due and by doing so, dropping the ball on the other classes. It was a real balancing act. No, strike that, it was a real juggling act and I'm the clown. In addition, this year I signed up for the Certificate in Historic Preservation so I have a few more required classes I need to take before I graduate, hopefully, with a degree in Medieval Studies, Art History and a Certificate in Historic Preservation.

On the bright side, today I received an e-mail from the librarian at my school asking for book requests. I reviewed my BookMooch wish list to see if the library had any of the books related to medieval studies that I would be interested in looking into once I have time. To my surprise, they seem to be a really well stocked library. I was able to find two books which they did not have, one of which goes for about $300 on Amazon. I figured it was a good library resource for a student with little pocket money and requested that book as well as another one. The nice librarian e-mailed back saying that they have been ordered. Score! ^_^