I checked my course registration page at NTNU (ooh!) about an hour ago, and much to my delight I discovered that I’ve been registered for not two but three courses this spring, and that these three combined fill my required term quota of 30 study points.

English Linguistics gives me 7,5 points if I pass it; English Literature: Prose Fiction also gives me 7,5 points; and Knowledge of English Culture (or Civilization, as the fancy buggers are calling it) gives me 15 points. Nice.

However, I discovered this fall that taking a few courses more than required wasn’t beyond me, but rather benfitted me by giving me more work, more stress and thus more incentive to study. So I’ve decided to take the history course Warriors, Monasteries and Catapults (a fun little course about knowledge spread in the Middle Ages) as well. But this is just a 7,5 points course, and I’m looking to add another 7,5 points to this year’s burden. So I’ve skimmed the list of exams this spring, and come up with a couple of likely courses. A couple of introductionary course in religion sounded like fun, specifically Religions of the Past and Middle Eastern Religions, but they weren’t compatible with the lecture schedules of my other courses. Then I took a gander at the history courses, but no. Warriors, Monasteries and Catapults was the only one that was going to work, as the others were either too large (52,5 points is a little too much for me, and I really want to take W, M and C), too awkwardly scheduled, or simply too yawn.

I’d originally planned to take the methodology course in history this spring, as it’s required if you want to take a Master’s Degree, but the lousy cunts (now there’s an image I want to forget as soon as possible) at the Departement of History have moved that course to the fall terms. Starting this term, it would seem, so no love for Terje there.

Next, I thought of perhaps trying the Introduction to Archaeological Theory and Methodology seeing as I’m currently planning to take archaeology as the second subject of this my second Bachelor, but damn it if that wasn’t scheduled to have lectures at the same time as fucking English Civilization.

The same is the case of Basic Old Norse, only it collided with Prose Fiction. Additionally, it’s a 15 points course, but I think I could have handled it. I’ll make a note of this one (too), though, as I imagine it to be potentially valuable if I decide to go for history or archaeology for my Master. I’ll try to take it next year, or something.

Bah, fuck this. I think I’m going to have to settle with only 37,5 points this term (and man, how annoying it is that I didn’t think of taking more courses before last term!), and postpone some of the more interesting and potentially useful courses until later. After all, I’ve still got four terms to spend on Bechelor level courses after this one. :)

Not to mention that unless NTNU make drastic changes to the schedules of these four courses, I’ll only have lectures on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. In other words, go me! :D