I'm at my second semester in college right now. While I'm majoring in chemical engineering, I'm also taking every histry course I can. I love history, it's quite fascinating. Right now I'm in Western Civ II, a 2 course history on Europe. (the entire history of Europe, from the dawn of time to modern day, in 32 weeks. Gee, I wonder if they cut out anything ) (Oh, and I would just like to say: You people have a sordid past! ) Anyway, does anyone else like to study history?
I was pretty disgusted to learn I had to do history as part of my course. I never liked it at school, I found it so pointless. However I would have to agree, it is fascinating. Britain, sordid?
A little, I like military history and the such. I avoided Civ like the plauge. The class was so boring that most people failed it cause they couldnt stay awake or force themselves to go in the first place.
Without history we would not be where we are today I love history personally - I would be interested to see how intensive your course must be though. 32 weeks does not sound like long to learn British history - let alone the whole of Europe! Best of luck though - and ENJOY!
Our class is interesting. She talks so fast that there is no time to pause in taking notes, but she starts changing the subject, and she sounds exactly like this: "I love Mary! She had such a tragic life, and she ONLY killed 200 people! she didn't deserve that title, and is anyone else hungry? Bojangles is sounding pretty good right now. So after Mary there was Elezibeth, who makes the 39 articals of religion..." so your notes end up looking something like: "Mary was a sadistic person that Ivey loves, Bojangles is good, after Mary croaked, Elezibeth...." But it is a really interesting class
My wife's undergrad degree is History... She's currently in a dual masters program at the University of North Texas, doing Museum Studies and Library Science. So, sorta indirectly I've taken lots of history classes Personally, I love Economics classes, so that's my odd class choice
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I dig history, especially European history. I DO NOT dig sitting in a classroom learning/reading bout it. History is interesting but I hate learning it in a classroom environment.
Yeah, sure, but I like READING about it, not listening to some bum off the street trying to make minimum wage telling me that Napolian won the battle at Waterlou (or however it's spelled). I like buying books and reading about wars, ancient civilisations can anyone say ROMAN??), and how they used 286s (running DOS, eww), the poor uncivilised bums
