All in all a great time. I'm excited, but it is strange to go to a campus where you know literally no-one. Ok, my cousin Jacqui goes to American, but this happens to be the semester that she's abroad in Rome. I happen to know quite a few people that have gone to American, but none that are students now.
That being said, I give three hearty cheers for departmental orientations. I met some cool people, and managed to mention that I liked 18th c. fashion to the professor who is studying 18th c. women's fashion as an indicator of roles between society and gender. Yes! Too bad I can't take her class.
The classes I do have, however, are matching up to be great. I've had, so far, Enlightenment, which is quite a bit of primary source material, and Historian's Craft, which is basically a course on historiography (the history of studying history -- i.e. studying interpretations of events, biases, etc). My Public History Seminar is tomorrow (today) and I actually have reading to do -- yikes -- but I must mention one more thing before I go.
This was a footnote (!) in my syllabus for Enlightenment. Fabulous. Click on it to see a bigger size.
In all seriousness, though, I'm so excited.
