orientation
So, this week I've started my new life in Anderson. And I've only made two trips down to Indy in that span of time... :)
Yesterday and today we had "new student orientation" at the seminary. It's been just like all other orientations I've had, especially like the other graduate school routine that I've gone through, except that this is all faith-based. Everyone here is of like mind.. and that's nice.
It's been neat to see my dad as more than just a father, too. For 21 years he's been a professor at the seminary, but I've never been able to see that. Now I have that chance, and it's interesting to see his oddities and characteristics come out in how he teaches. He will be team-teaching one class of mine this semester.
My seminary classes start next week: Pastoral Theology, Constructive Theology (I of III), and the History and Geography of Ancient Israel. It'll be a good load, lots of reading to do...that's the part that worries me most, I guess. But it'll be good to learn meaningful stuff again.
I just got done with a battery of tests, psychological tests and personality tests (I'm still an ISFJ, I think, but maybe ISTJ...). It took a good three, three and a half hours to get through everything that they had for us to do. I wonder what I'll learn about myself through them...
One test in particular was constructed well.. it had a series of pairs of statements, and I was to select "A" or "B" if one or the other matched me well. But I could also choose "a" or "b" if both were true but I leaned one way or the other. These were called "forced response" questions, and the instructions said that I was to try to get "A"s and "B"s wherever possible. Kind of interesting to see how I debated with myself and figured out what I really felt..
Oh yeah, and I'm teaching now, too. Three algebra classes....what fun. :) I like it, really. But it's definitely not my focus here..
Yesterday and today we had "new student orientation" at the seminary. It's been just like all other orientations I've had, especially like the other graduate school routine that I've gone through, except that this is all faith-based. Everyone here is of like mind.. and that's nice.
It's been neat to see my dad as more than just a father, too. For 21 years he's been a professor at the seminary, but I've never been able to see that. Now I have that chance, and it's interesting to see his oddities and characteristics come out in how he teaches. He will be team-teaching one class of mine this semester.
My seminary classes start next week: Pastoral Theology, Constructive Theology (I of III), and the History and Geography of Ancient Israel. It'll be a good load, lots of reading to do...that's the part that worries me most, I guess. But it'll be good to learn meaningful stuff again.
I just got done with a battery of tests, psychological tests and personality tests (I'm still an ISFJ, I think, but maybe ISTJ...). It took a good three, three and a half hours to get through everything that they had for us to do. I wonder what I'll learn about myself through them...
One test in particular was constructed well.. it had a series of pairs of statements, and I was to select "A" or "B" if one or the other matched me well. But I could also choose "a" or "b" if both were true but I leaned one way or the other. These were called "forced response" questions, and the instructions said that I was to try to get "A"s and "B"s wherever possible. Kind of interesting to see how I debated with myself and figured out what I really felt..
Oh yeah, and I'm teaching now, too. Three algebra classes....what fun. :) I like it, really. But it's definitely not my focus here..
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