So, without a tremendous amount of fanfare on my part (because I went to an all-day workshop that meant I missed the usually crazy influx of cars to campus), classes at TWU started yesterday. Last night, I went to the first meeting of my mostly-online upper-level undergraduate government course about the law as it relates to women. The course itself is officially named “Law for Women,” which, when I think about it, just seems to contradict wildly the whole point of studying discriminatory law. I mean, doesn’t “Law for Women” sound like “law easy enough for you silly girls to understand it,” rather than “how the law has discriminated against people on the basis of their gender” to you??
Still, it was good. I mean, it was the first day of school and our three-hour class lasted, um, three hours (which is simply not done, you understand). Yet, the professor Jeff Robb was every bit as easygoing, irreverent and intelligent as his faculty profile Web page had let me to assume he’d be. I really think I’m going to enjoy that class … though, not without some serious effort on my part.
The other two classes I’m taking this semester I was able to access online yesterday. I also met with my practicum supervisor last night (after I got out of that three-hour class) to discuss my schedule for the semester. And all of that together, folks, has left me with a palpable sense of latent fear for the insanity sure to befall my next four months. Seriously. This semester is going to kick. my. butt.
It will be a pleasant butt-kicking, naturally, but I nevertheless predict that it’s going to leave me sleep deprived and stressed out. So bear with me. 🙂
Oh, and your review of your professor's bio picqued my curiosity. I'm not sure I get the "easy-going" and "irreverent" part, but he's a dead-ringer for Danny on the West Wing.
Actually, my interpretation was more along the lines of "laws that only apply to women" or "how laws apply differently to women than to men." Like, maybe they'd teach you how to get out of a traffic ticket. And, really, isn't that a much more practical skill to learn than, say, fighting gender bias in the workplace?