I have in my hand the registration form for my third quarter at MIT. The list of classes on here are much different than last year. A full load is four classes, in the Spring semester I took seven, and this semester i’m taking five. So I’m still technically overloaded, but I’m being a smart cookie this time around and making one of my classes my THESIS.
\nMy classes are as follows:<\/p>\n
Media in Transition
Colloquium
Topics in Comparative Media: World Building with Frank Espinosa
Portfolio in Comparative Media (read: Transmedia Storytelling, or THESIS)
Topics in Comparative Media: Comics with Henry Jenkins<\/p><\/blockquote>\nNormally students take a class in the Spring semester that is ful-time dedicated work on the THESIS. I’m starting early, hence my assertion that I am, in fact, a smart cookie. Depending on how things go, I may try and take a class at Harvard or the Media Lab instead of one of these, but we’ll see how it goes. I definitely think I need the time to work on my THESIS.
\nIt’s funny being back. Last year at this time I was beside myself with excitement, going ohmygodohmygodohmygodI’matMIT<\/i>, but this year I’m kind of blase. I’m happy and comfortable and relaxing about my commitments this year, and everybody<\/i> is totally supportive of my new mindset, which is to say no<\/i> to everything I possibly can instead of saying yes<\/i> to everything. This is because of the aforementioned big bad monster looming on the horizon: the THESIS.
\nIn case you hadn’t caught on yet, dear reader, my plan is that every time I mention this particular dreaded beast on my blog it’s going to be in all caps. THESIS. I’m working on my THESIS.<\/b> Today someone asked me about my THESIS.<\/i><\/b>
\nThe only thing better than this would be coding in some kind of rollover that added some booming bass drums every time someone moused over the word THESIS. THESIS!<\/B><\/I> *bum bum bum*
\nSo, yeah. I’m a little punchy. But all things considered, I’ve feeling much<\/i> better about the state of the universe, and totally looking forward to this semester.\ud83d\ude42<\/nobr><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have in my hand the registration form for my third quarter at MIT. The list of classes on here are much different than last year. A full load is four classes, in the Spring semester I took seven, and this semester i’m taking five. So I’m still technically overloaded, but I’m being a smart […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thesis"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s4e5QR-thesis","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}