And the consensus is:

that most of the students don't actually like how the classes are set up, meaning that they don't like all the cameras, microphones and screens. I found this to be quite interesting, not that I mind. I myself am not too sure about all of this either, but for the year there's not that much I can do about it. It is what it is.

In other news, I made a rather startling realization, which took me all to long to notice in the first place. All of my professors are female. This in and of itself is not all that significant, but you must understand that there are absolutely no female professors in the sciences at Dordt College, and now I have nothing but female science professors. It actually makes me feel a little empowered.

What's more is that apparently the CLS professors are more relaxed about titles and we are allowed and encouraged to call them each by their first names. Amazing, huh?! It puts a more personal spin on a potentially non-personal classroom set up. It also helps that each of the professors are making themselves quite easily approachable, which is a really big thing for me.

The other wonderful thing, especially about one of my professors (who also is the director of the program), is that they truly want all of us to succeed. Sonja has expressed time and again her willingness to help us through all of the material. She realizes that there is quite a vast body of knowledge for each of us to learn in this upcoming year, but encourages us to continually stick with the material and that hopefully toward the end of the year it will all finally make sense. She also encourages us to remain patient with ourselves as we delve into the course work, because it may not always immediately make sense (which is true of most things I think, but encouraging to know that I won't be the only one potentially struggling with the material).

So yes, that was my little plug for the professor who is daily becoming one of my most favorite professors of all time. :)

In other news, the video I need to watch for my Microbiology course is loading rather slowly, and I hope I can watch it all tonight yet. On the bright side, at least I get Labor Day off in order to work on all of my copious amounts of piling up homework.

Hope you are all doing well and those of you whom I know are always in my thoughts. For you Dordt students, enjoy your day at school tomorrow!