That actually sounds ace.
I loved classics at school.
( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Sun 17 Oct 2010, 22:23, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

Yeah, but it's really, really, REALLY hard
And at the end of the day, so I'm just knackered by the 3rd straight hour of intense conversation.

Sample of what I have to do:
Mucius augur multa narrare de C. Laelio socero suo memoriter et iucunde solebat nec dubitare illum in omni sermone appellare sapientem. ego autem a patre ita eram deductus ad Scaevolam sumpta virili toga, ut, quoad possem et liceret, a senis latere numquam discederem. itaque multa ab eo prudenter disputata, multa etiam breviter et commode dicta memoriae mandabam, fierique studebam eius prudentia doctior. quo mortuo me ad pontificem Scaevolam contuli, quem unum nostrae civitatis et ingenio et iustitia praestantissimum audeo dicere. sed de hoc alias, nunc redeo ad augurem.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Sun 17 Oct 2010, 22:26, Reply)

yeah luckily our texts had been translated for us.
Really cool skill to have though. How many people in your set?
( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Sun 17 Oct 2010, 22:28, Reply)

depends what lecture
Cicero, about 20. Aristophanes, about 15. The core lecture, about 30.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Sun 17 Oct 2010, 22:30, Reply)

that's a lot of opinions.

( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Sun 17 Oct 2010, 22:31, Reply)

It varies.
Classics and BMGS is quite a small department. There's about 90* a year, and the courses I'm taking (apart from core) are mixed year group.


*including the Ancient Historians and Classical Studies lot.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Sun 17 Oct 2010, 22:35, Reply)

I've got one on Thursday
Over 100.
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Sun 17 Oct 2010, 22:36, Reply)

Our lectures are 150 people or so
Mind you, not much debate needed for physics.
( Tedium Alduce me to interlow myself., Sun 17 Oct 2010, 22:37, Reply)

I don't let anyone else talk

( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Sun 17 Oct 2010, 22:38, Reply)

I often ask really REALLY stupid questions
Or point out the obvious.

Bet you'd lvoe to have me in a lecture.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Sun 17 Oct 2010, 22:39, Reply)

I have a student like that in one of my classes
lovely lad but Aspergers means that he doesn't really have any social boundaries - took him a couple of weeks to get used to me and now I can't shut him up. But...he's incredibly bright - the others in the group are having problems keeping up because he keeps on throwing really complex stuff in, I'm guessing he's half hoping to catch me out...which he probably will at some point!
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Sun 17 Oct 2010, 22:44, Reply)

I'm not quite that bad.
Though I have ended up asking questions, being told to research the answer and give a presentation to the class. I loved that lecturer.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Sun 17 Oct 2010, 22:47, Reply)

The teachers would have hated you at my old school.

( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Sun 17 Oct 2010, 22:56, Reply)

It's better than just NO ONE saying anything.

( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Sun 17 Oct 2010, 22:59, Reply)

They seemed to like it that way.
If at any point you didn't understand something and asked why it was the way it was, you'd get told "it just is" and be expected to commit it to memory. Wonder if that's why the exam results were always such shite.
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Sun 17 Oct 2010, 23:02, Reply)