Second Day of Classes

Today was the second day of classes, and I had three of them.

First up was COSI 100 - Intro to Human Communications. I signed up for this class to improve my public speaking skills, and it looks like I will get plenty of practice. For each class, everyone has to give two 2-3 minute speeches on a short prompt. Maybe I will post my speeches (or outlines of them) on this blog. The instructor for this course seems really good. He's an older guy, and he seems very interested in what Sean would call "The Higher Learning". Today we spent most of the period going around the room and explaining why we were taking the class and what we had learned at Case so far.

Next, I had ENTP 310 - Entrepreneurial Finance. The material covered in this class sounds pretty interesting to me. However, I'm worried that since I'm taking accounting simultaneously, I may have some problems (almost everyone else in the class is a business major who has already taken accounting). Still, I've never been one to back down, and I figure I can teach myself any accounting I need to know. This class is going to require some case analysis, which I usually enjoy. I am somewhat pissed that the professor wants everyone to spend $60 on a bunch of DRMed PDF files which will have no resale value.

Finally, I had EECS 423 - Distributed Systems. This class is being taught by Liberatore, not Podgurski, as I thought. That's probably a good thing. I've never had Liberatore before, but my intuition is that he and Podgurski are about equal in terms of teaching ability. However, Liberatore seems more enthusiastic about teaching, which is worth something. Projects comprise a large portion of the grade, so hopefully I'll be able to write some interesting programs.