In the fall, I’ll be taking my Senior Writing Portfolio
course, which is a course all Creative Writing majors must take. It’ll be
interesting to have the opportunity to look at how I’ve changed as a writer and
what I’ve accomplished writing-wise over my college career. I’ll also be taking an advanced writing
course. I was torn between Advanced Poetry in the fall and Advanced Fiction:
Novel in the spring, but I’ve ultimately decided on Advanced Poetry. I feel
like my poetry has grown much more while at Susquehanna than my fiction and
that taking another poetry course will be more fruitful in developing my skills
as a writer.
I will also be finishing up my requirements for the Religion
major in the fall semester. It’s so strange to think about how this major is
not something I had ever intended on pursuing when I entered college, considering how much I’ve
enjoyed it and gained from it. My two classes left to take are actually
100-level courses. Because I didn’t plan on taking the major initially, I ended
up taking a lot of upper-level classes that interested me before taking introductory courses. The two courses will be Intro to Judaism and Faiths
and Values.
Beyond these courses for my majors, I still have some
Central Curriculum requirements to complete. The Central Curriculum requires
certain classes in different areas to ensure a well-rounded liberal arts
education. One of the requirements is “Analytical Thought,” which typically
means some sort of math course. I’ll admit that has been something I’ve been delaying
purely because I don’t really enjoy math.
I couldn’t run away from it forever, though, so I’ll finally be taking
Intro to Statistics.
During the Spring, I’ll be doing a Capstone project (a
final project) for my Religion major. Because I’m a double major this isn’t
technically required, but I’m really interested in undertaking a Religion project.
I’ve already talked to my Religion major advisor who’s agreed to advise my
independent project as well. Right now I’m considering doing something on
attitudes towards and alternatives to dating in some subsets of Christian
culture—specifically the idea of “courtship”—and analyzing how people apply
the Bible, which was written in a culture so far off from any of our romantic
norms, to present-day relationships. I’m
really excited about this project. Over break I already started compiling a
reading list for it, even though I have much more immediate work that needs to
be done.I’ll also be finishing off my final Central Curriculum requirement, an “Oral Intensive” course. I thought I was going to have to take Public Speaking, but I found out that Modern Philosophy also counts towards this requirement. I think that should be really interesting since I haven’t taken a philosophy course yet at SU, even though I’m really intrigued by the subject.
I’ll also be completing some of the requirements for the Honors program, taking an English class called Forms of Writing to fulfill my final Creative Writing requirement, and taking the Religion department’s New Testament class for fun.
Next year is definitely bound to be busy, but I think there
will be some interesting academic highlights within all that work!
Another thing I’ve had to arrange for senior year is
housing. As I’m writing this, two friends
and I are still awaiting word on our application for a a 3-person townhouse in 18th Street Commons,
Susquehanna’s newest housing development. It’s technically on-campus housing
but is designed to have a more off-campus feel.
I really hope we get a space at one of these townhouses.
Both my freshman and sophomore years, it felt strange
planning for the next year because time had gone so fast. It has definitely felt
that way again this year, but now it’s even stranger since I’m entering my
final year as a Susquehanna student. It’s
easy to jump ahead of myself and start wailing about how I don’t want to
graduate, this is too soon, etc., that I sometimes forget I do have a whole
year left here. Maybe it’ll be the best one yet.
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