This summer, I constantly berated those I visited if they brought me to a used bookstore, esp. a bookstore that had a brilliant display and collection of mythology books. Well, I’m happy to say that going to school at Pacifica will more than satisfy my need for mythological stories.
There are so many freaking books that I want to check out, and not just for classes either…my brain is about to burst because of the possibilities of them all. I’m very very happy here.
The classes were excellent, the first class dealing with the historical study of myth. We spent the day talking about Jung, Campbell, Levi-Strauss, and a few others like Harrison. It was a really good time, very informative. I could have used more examples, but that will come next session when we deal with Freud in that class.
Tuesday we dealt with the Hindu mythic tradition. Man, that rocked. It was a great experience to have the books that were assigned to us read, and then have so much EXTRA information tossed at us to reinforce the readings and give us a broad view of the basics. Next time we are delving more into the epics, and that’s going to be really stupendous.
Today was the only class that I didn’t enjoy as much as the others. I had spent the extra time reading the chapters in the book that were not assigned, and it turns out that she basically covered those chapters today in class. I was a bit bored, but she had some very good example exercises that she gave us that really helped illustrate personal myths and the effects on people’s lives.
As well, I’ve gotta give a shout out to a few of the people in my class. John(who was my roommate), Craig, and Dan were pretty damned cool. A plus is that they are all republicans. The really funny part of this is that each of us had one of the same singular worries when getting to this school:
We were all afraid we’d be the only conservative persons on campus.
Thank God though that there are some people who aren’t so horribly hippy-ish that offer a nice backdrop of common sense. There are some really hippy-ish characters here, but I can deal with them all right, though they do make the classes kind of difficult because of their incessant talking up on points that don’t really concern ANYTHING to do with the lecture. But ‘s ok, ‘s all right.
I really enjoy Pacifica, which is a good thing, as I’ll be spending the fortune that I make in the next 15 years on paying for my 3 years here, and I’ll be out here once a month for the next three years.
Woohoo! Graduate Classes out here are so much better than BSU, and I’m insanely glad of it. I now have a real school to look forward to once a month.
