J. Nathaniel Sloan: Courses and Curses

Much can be gleaned about a person from the details printed upon his class schedule. All of the impulses which together guide and direct someone into taking an interest in a certain subject coalesce during schedule selection, as he is forced to assign various relative weights to the competing attributes so worthy of his attention -- everything from scheduling conflicts to class prerequisites must be considered in its turn.

Of course, it's far from obvious that just because one can make a case for the ability to learn copious amounts of information about a person from his schedule, said schedule should be made public. After all, a description of one's Compact Disc collection fulfills many of these same requirements...

Still, while I shall never give in to the urge to post such a comprehensive music list, the schedule is easy enough and might just come in handy should I ever need to visit a course homepage. :-)

And so, upon further review and without further ado...

Designation	Title	Professor	Comments
Fall 1997
BIOL 52	Introduction to Biology	Dr. Jim Manser Dr. Catherine McFadden Dr. Mary Williams	My final core class! Hurrah!
CHIN 1a	Elementary Chinese	Dr. Jianhsin Wu	Ah... the joys of taking a class five times per week, including thrice at eight o'clock in the morning.
CSCI 121	Software Development	Dr. Wing Tam	Large-Scale Software Design (aka "Software Development"), or "LSD," as it's often called, involves, well, the large-scale design of software. That's all I have to say about that.
CSCI 124	Operating Systems	Dr. Mike Erlinger	Dr. Erlinger teaches us the wonders of the interaction between hardware and software as we delve deep into the secret lives of operating systems.
CSCI 181	Seminar in Computer Science	Dr. Everett Bull	Dr. Bull here presents his introduction to cryptography; there's something fairly unique in being one of five students in a class.
CSCI 193	Computer Science Colloquium I	Computer Science Staff	Wow! Along with its counterparts in other disciplines, this may be the only course offered at the Claremont Colleges whose name contains the sequence "uiu," thus making for a rare find indeed. Well, perhaps rare is an unfortnate adjective to choose" all upper-division computer science majors are required to participate in two years' worth of colloquia.
HIST 183S	Radicals and Reformers in U.S. History	Dr. Hal Barron	Two and a half hours of hum class sandwiched into a single sitting, once a week. Mmmmmm.
Spring 1997
CSCI 110	Computer Architecture	Dr. Bull
CSCI 140	Algorithms	Dr. Ran Libeskind-Hadas