Intro Thread

[fantalaimon]

 Here's your opportunity to get to know your fellow SRSers! (SRSians? SRSites? We're open to suggestions.)  Introduce yourself in the comments. Maybe even reply to each other, if you're feeling especially social.

Suggested topics: Other fandoms you're in, other ships you have, what type of fanwork you create, how long you've been in the SPN fandom... Really, you can talk about whatever you want, this mod is not the best at coming up with introduction prompts.

This is, of course, open to everyone, Team Chuck included.

Comments

[fairielore]

My fellow team member, hello! I guess I'm going to go with the really stock question and ask what your favourite book is? Mine is And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie. (I adore Poirot as well, though I've only seen the television show). My classes this term are split between english and history: ancient Greek history and the Middle Ages and one more general course (renaissance to 17th century, focusing on the progression of the idea of the self). For literature, I'm doing earlier 17th century (although so far the books we've done have been far before that - such as Romance of the Rose and Le Morte D'Arthur) and my other one is a course on Milton (we'll be reading the entirety of Paradise Lost).

[caramelkaren]

I feel pretty split between Good Omens and 1984 when it comes to favorite books at the moment (I know, what a range). And I say at the moment because with every book I pick up, who knows if it may end up becoming my favorite instead. I've read an Agatha Christie novel as well, Murder on the Orient Express, and I've been meaning to read more of her works. Then again, my life just seems to be some big "I've been meaning to *insert task here*" I'm too forgetful. I seriously can't wait until I have a semester that's so focused on my major/minor. I'm only a freshman in her first semester, so I'm taking a lot of my gen ed courses right now. At least my professors are all awesome, they make it worthwhile.

[fairielore]

I've read both of those books and definitely place them way up there. I love Neil Gaiman's work in general although I haven't gotten around to reading American Gods yet which seems to be a fan favourite. Shamefully, I haven't gotten around to reading Murder on the Orient Express. I certainly understand being forgetful and not getting around to reading many books - considering how many I go through in a term I have no time or ambition to read anything other than what's on my syllabus. :/ I'm in my third year so I'm past the whole 'take random courses in your first year', which went pretty badly for me because I took some science courses that didn't go well. >____> Although in first year I was considering being a Psychology major, which I eventually decided against. I'm glad your professors are good, that's always the most important. I have one really wacky professor where thus far we haven't done anything course relevant in two weeks.

[caramelkaren]

Yeah, I feel like it's going to be the same way once I have more English courses in a semester, I'm not going to have the motivation to read much else than what's assigned in class. And you reminded me that I have to take a science course at some point, and it'll probably be biology because everyone takes biology it seems, and it's my least favorite science and I don't want this. And that'll probably be next semester as well. Though if everything works out right, after this semester I'll never have to take math again, and that makes me happy. But ooh, that sounds like a terrible professor. I mean, it's one thing to have someone that goes on tangents from time to time (like my French professor), but to not do anything relevant at all in that long? I wish you luck.

[fairielore]

I took biology (which was what I supposed to take for psych) and I sucked at it, so I wish you luck. My former roommate is a chemistry major and I don't envy the courses she has to take at all. I never had to take math - though I would have had to take statistics if I'd done psychology (there's a pattern that leads to why I became an English major). Ehhh... well, I heard as a professor he's pretty easy so I'm not incredibly worried (yet) and he's very funny in class so it kind of feels more like I have an hour and a half break than actual class. What courses are you taking this semester?

[caramelkaren]

Yeah, there's a reason I didn't even go into anything science related. I almost became a chemistry major, but then I realized how much math would be involved, and realized I didn't love chemistry enough to put up with all of it, so that was the end of that. This semester I'm taking an American government course, US History to 1877, French 1 (it's a requirement of the BA program here that we must reach a certain proficiency in a foreign language), excursions math (I don't even know what it is we're learning, it's just all over the place), and two courses entitled Modes of Discourse for the Honors Program I'm in. The one is a public speaking type course, and the other is a writing course designed to be the Honors version of the first year writing course everyone is mandated to take at the university. Again though, it feels like it's all over the place. I mean, the other day our professor showed us a part of a Wagner opera. I don't understand what it had to do with writing, but he seems to be very much an advocate of exposing yourself to as much culture as possible, so I guess I learned something from it.

[fairielore]

Chemistry is a boatload of work so you probably made a good choice there - she had to do math, biology, chemistry, and physics. Yikes! Ah, bonjour! I live in Canada so I've done French ever since I was a kid (and I happen to live in the french part of Canada currently). A public speaking course, ugh. I absolutely hate public speaking and I'd probably take being tortured by Alastair over it... Hmm, I don't necessarily think your professor is wrong to expose people to a lot of high culture, although it's very much 'your mileage may vary'. Classical music doesn't do much for me (other than put me to sleep).

[caramelkaren]

Yeah, that's exactly what I realized I would have to do if I was a chem major, so I just jumped right out of that one! I just don't have enough dedication to chemistry to want to take all those kinds of classes. And my French is pretty basic, I did take some French in high school, but the placement exam put me all the way at the bottom (the only questions in which I actually knew what I was doing were things we had just learned in my high school French 2 class). I wish I was more exposed to French like that, then all I'd have to do is pass the proficiency exam and I wouldn't need to take 4 courses of French. I don't mind public speaking, but I know I'm not the best at it, so it's probably a good thing I do have to take this course. We had to do impromptu speeches, and I did mine on Thursday (the rest will be on Tuesday) and I seriously felt like I was just rambling out shit and not really making a whole lot of coherent sense. I also felt like I was repeating myself a lot. But I seriously had barely any time to prepare, so what do you expect?