My last round of classes in college!

Man that sounds final! But true it is. My life being defined by 3 academic quarters and a summer of fun is about to face a huge revolution and I don't know what that will look like yet. Until then though, let's talk about my awesome classes this quarter!

Probably the most strange schedule yet, I attend 2 classes M-W-F, 2 classes Tuesday (for now) and 1 class Thursdays. Tonight was the final class for my Tuesday evening class and so from now on I'm only taking 3 courses through the end of the year. What are they you may wonder?

Business Marketing Management: Taught by a fiery and sarcastic man of Indian heritage, this class is extremely project based as we study from case to case about how companies develop brand images and market it. We've done in depth studies of the Colgate Precision Toothbrush, Harley Davidson, Southwest Airlines and many more. We also get to do a gigantic group project where we analyze the market for an upcoming innovative technology at UCSD and suggest a marketing plan. It's a cool class (though lots of work for a class during my last quarter).

Integrating Sustainability into the Workplace: As the sole undergraduate in this class, I feel like I am way ahead of all the 'real people' (i.e. grown ups who have real-person/fulltime jobs) as 1. I go to incredibly innovative UCSD and 2. Sustainability is something I've been educated to think about since high school, most of the concepts aren't that new to me. It's a great experience though to be in a room full of people in positions where they really can implement more sustainable efforts in their workplace and see the difference. The profess wrote to me after the final class "It was a pleasure having you in the class! I appreciated your optimism and enthusiasm. Best of luck to you in driving change via sustainability." Great right! This is also the class that ended today (and that is the reason I have time to be writing this blog!)

Literature of Shakespeare: The Jacobian Period: I'm not a literature major, nor do I know what in the world the "Jacobian period" refers to, I felt that a Shakespeare class was a very good college course to take. The professor is hilarious and we are reading a huge number of Shakespeare's plays. (In the past 4 weeks we've read and written about Othello, Macbeth and King Lear and I have 5 more books sitting on my shelf to be read during our final 4 weeks).

Sociology of Knowledge: This is my ABSOLUTE favorite class. It's amazing. And the professor is one of those individuals who is so incredibly intelligent that sometimes amidst her lecture she gets a new idea and sweeps you away on her wild tangental analysis of the material at hand. She's pretty much become my hero of academia, seriously amazing. In the class we discussing the idea that knowledge is social. The knowledge you acquire and believe is such because you are a social being with many identities that interact in different and overlapping ways based on individual stimulus. It's truly a wonderful course that always has me thinking. Great final course at UCSD. (If you're interested in some of the readings I'd be happy to send them on to you!)

So as you can see, my courses are interesting and I very much am glad with my choices (though they require a bit more work than I would like to be exerting during my final 10 weeks of college). But then again, what is college for if not to learn (at least a little) in the classroom.