Decisions, Decisions

Another joy of winter break is bluebooking. For the uninformed, bluebooking is how we Yalies choose our tentative classes for the coming semester, culling from a herd of hundreds roughly five credits' worth of classes. It is a challenge and a joy, and like a safari in digital format.

I've started this, and find it is now a compulsion. There are so many classes to choose from this semester, but it seems I haven't space for all of them. As an Italian major (which I declared about two weeks prior to the end of the semester), I need a few classes as requisites. One is ITAL 151-- "Advanced Language and Composition." This strikes me as another rehash of grammar type course but with more advanced speaking. I also want to take "Pirandello: Theater Practicum," a course taught by one of my former professors in Italian that looks to be something approaching the Best Class Ever. There's another course that I could take as well, called "War, Literature, and Politics in Renaissance Italy" that seems to be the equivalent of what I want to study for the rest of my life, but it also conflicts with most of my science courses.

And then there's the science courses that I should take; I'm leaning towards Ornithology, because it is raved about by several and seems fairly approachable, and perhaps "The Technological World" or "Movie Physics" will round off my left brain classes.

Finally, I have one or two "free" credits, in which I can choose a class that isn't strictly required. I'd like to take an art history course, or perhaps a straight English or History course. So many sound interesting, it should be a challenge to shop them.

I've worked up a few mock schedules, so hopefully it will all work out in the end. In the meantime, I can only go compulsively through OCI and look at all of my options.