The Official Adam Pascal Love Thread, part eleven- Page 36

[Ariella]

Posted: 9/17/06 at 12:54pm

Good luck! There's nothing like this board for procrastinating when there's stuff to be done.

[Atrias]

Posted: 9/17/06 at 12:56pm

Latin is the foreign language I'm best at, probably because I never have to use it in conversation.

[Ariella]

Posted: 9/17/06 at 2:32pm

I wish my school offered Latin.

I have to go to a college fair now. I hope I don't knock any displays down with my crutches. I'm clumsy enough without them. I've automatically crossed all MN colleges off my list ages ago.

Posted: 9/17/06 at 2:33pm

Macalester is really nice, though. :)

[Dancinqueen123]

Posted: 9/17/06 at 4:17pm

I'm considering a MN college. But all of the others are in Illinois. I don't know if I'll ever get out of here.

[sweetestsiren]

Posted: 9/17/06 at 5:51pm

Heh, I don't *know* Latin, but I took five years of it in high school. (So like me to go for the dead language rather than something practical like French or Spanish.) It was a lot of fun for the history/culture aspect. In college I took a couple of semesters of Italian, but I'm not as good with spoken languages as written ones.

[Ariella]

Posted: 9/17/06 at 6:44pm

Hey, Macalester's really close to my school. It certainly is quite nice.

I can't believe it's already Sunday. Weekends go too fast once you're back in school.

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 9/17/06 at 6:52pm

I used to have to sing in Latin a lot. Other than a few Christian-related phrases, I don't know anything.

Ariella, I did the same thing when applying to colleges. I refused to consider anything in Maryland, especially the University of Maryland (where a good quarter of my graduating class went).

[Dancinqueen123]

Posted: 9/17/06 at 7:47pm

Ariella, I agree completely. I feel like I got nothing accomplished this weekend. The same thing will happen next weekend too and probably the weekend after that. Actually, now that I think about it. I have something major going on every weekend until the end of October.

Posted: 9/17/06 at 7:49pm

In three weeks, I'll be getting ready for a certain person's concert.

Uh huh.

I finished my papers. I'm not really satisfied with one of them, but I'll never be satisfied, so...

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 9/17/06 at 7:50pm

I didn't get enough work done today. I'm at the library now, but I also have internet now, soooooo.

I should have taken Latin.

Posted: 9/17/06 at 7:52pm

Hugs for Emcee.

I'm reading SparkNotes for The Iliad. Talk about deja vu.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 9/17/06 at 7:54pm

Group hug! I also overslept, so. Hyper.

I have to read Sparknotes. I hate myself for doing it, but I dunno how my professor expects us to read 400 pages per class session.

[picturetaker9211]

Posted: 9/17/06 at 9:26pm

Aw, I hope you feel better Ariella!

My chorus went to Msuic in the Parks (a music competition that takes place at several different amesment parks) & we had to sing a song in Latin. It wasn't that bad considering most of the words were repetitve. We got 1st place

[Chloe]

Posted: 9/17/06 at 9:27pm

That's extreme, Emcee. How often are the classes? I wish I had studied Latin too.

Lexi, three weeks and an hour from now.

[Mandi Moo]

Posted: 9/17/06 at 9:33pm

I would have taken Latin if it was offered, and I realllllly want to learn German, but my school only offered French and Spanish at the time, and now Spanish is the only thing offered. Meh.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 9/17/06 at 9:34pm

Tuesday/Thursday.

[Chloe]

Posted: 9/17/06 at 9:41pm

I don't remember having any classes as demanding as the ones you and Lexi have described. My toughest assignment was probably reading everything Shakespeare wrote for my class on him. I didn't quite make it through all the sonnets and narrative poems. I think I read all the plays.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 9/17/06 at 9:45pm

It varies, but this novel per session stuff is craaaazy.

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 9/17/06 at 9:51pm

I took 5 years of Spanish. I've retained only enough to be able to watch telanovelas with closed captioning on.

I have a bunch of busywork due this week. Bleh. But next weekend makes up for it.

[Connie2]

Posted: 9/18/06 at 3:15am

GAH! I hate the stupid IMDB Boards.

/end rant

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[CanadianSnowbird]

Posted: 9/18/06 at 6:14am

I took French from Grade 4 to Grade 9, I would've continued but I had a very bad teacher my last year.

College is soo much different than university in Canada. Everything is really hands-on instead of just an information overload. My reading assignments are only around 20 pages per class, and my major assignments have a lot of in-class components.

[Mandi Moo]

Posted: 9/18/06 at 8:37am

Jesus, I'm going to college in Canada.

er...university? Updated On: 9/18/06 at 08:37 AM

[Billboard Girl]

Posted: 9/18/06 at 11:07am

My high school required everyone to take 2 years of either Latin or classical Greek, in addition to 4 years of Spanish, French, or Japanese. I guess it was useful in learning about how language works even if there isn't much use for Latin today.

My brother's in the middle of the college-application frenzy right now. He decided to apply early to NYU, which makes me really happy (he was going to apply there anyway, he just wasn't sure until this weekend if he wanted to apply early-decision).

[Chloe]

Posted: 9/18/06 at 11:24am

Mandi, where will you be in Canada?

Hi Jessica - your high school sounds very demanding. I think it must be useful to learn all those declensions in Latin, since most common languages other than English are still built around them too. We only retain them in our most basic words, what are known as the "irregular" verbs. (Of course they used to be the rule rather than the exception.) You can trace the forms of "to be" back to Sanscrit. The other survivals are mostly in the plurals of certain nouns, like "foot - feet" and "mouse - mice."

Good luck to your brother.