Semester #4

    Usually I write about what classes I am taking at the beginning of the semester, but it didn't work out that way this time. Even though there are only a couple weeks left, I am going to take the time to tell you what I have been learning about these last few months.

Adobe Illustrator
     This was a short one-credit blip I took at the beginning of the semester to learn the Adobe Illustrator program. Illustrator is a digital drawing program that is used in a lot of design work. I had used it a lot in a graphic design course the previous semester, but I was still able to learn some new tricks.

Spanish 210
     This is the third Spanish course I have taken. I think I have progressed a lot since I started! In this course we are learning new grammar principles, as well as building on old ones.

Honors Astronomy
     This course knocks out two birds with one stone for me; it fulfills my honors requirement and also acts as one of my science/math general education courses. Being an honors class, our work is more discussion based and we write papers instead of taking tests. A lot of our discussion is based on recent events and advances in astronomy. At the moment I am working on a project about the recent Cassini mission to Saturn.
     
Art History
     This art history course is looking at different examples of power and propaganda across different cultures. So far we have gone through ancient Mesopotamia, Persia, China, Greece, and Rome.

Photography
     If I had to choose a favorite class this semester, Photography might be it! For the first half of the semester we were working in the darkroom, learning how to work with film and the developing process. That was a fun experience. Now, we are getting using what we learned about analog photography and applying it to the digital realm.