Class on days that start with the letter "T"

Well, two weeks in and going strong.

My course work has started at the University of Glasgow and it's proving to be not too terrible a challenge. I have class twice a week for about 5-6 hours on each day. It's nice that we only meet twice a week but for that long period it feels like I'm back in high school. There are eight of us in the Masters program (three gents and five lasses) which has made it pretty simple to get to know people and feel easy around them. I was surprised to find out that many were like me in that they did not have background in TV or Film specializations. Many seem to have chosen this program because of a general love of the movies. That's what got me here.

In each course we watch a movie for the first part of the class - so far I've seen The Man With the Movie Camera, Á Ma Soeur, Citizen Kane, and Babe: Pig in the City - and then usually an hour and a half or so of lecture followed by general discussion of what we hear in lecture and saw in the film.

The course on Tuesday is History of Critical Writing (HoCW), which is pretty self explanatory. The Thursday course is my core course for film journalism. For that we tend to have critics and authors come in a teach a lecture to us about what it is they do and how they've gotten their start. It's nice hearing from people in the business but a little rough hearing about how this may be a dying trade. But I manage to keep my spirits up.

I tend to have to read a lot for each class and that's actually what I'm about to go do. Not a whole lot is happening with either. I have a 2,500 word essay due the 18th of October in HoCW and a 300 word review every week in the core course but neither are too terribly daunting. I'll update more when some more excitement happens.

Cheers!