Did I mention that the designers of our lovely, shiny new E-Learning system FORGOT about Minor subjects?
EDIT: some of them, that is. Some were lucky, but then, it only befits my faculties to be sloppy and unorganised. They always are.
Until today, students could only enroll for courses in their Major subject - in most cases. Minors - pshaw, who even needs those?
I only need one more course in my major, all other courses I need are in my minor subject.
This whole thing is so typical of my university - instead of introducing it little by little, for the new students who enroll this year first of all and then, after a test phase, subsequently for the rest, they do it for everybody at the same time and are dismayed when it does not work - as everybody with a spoonful of brain would have known from the beginning.
For most courses on the syllabus of my lovely German literature minor, it's still not possible to enroll online and I'll just have to come along to the first session and basically see what happens. I hope nobody'll kick me out or anything. Studying in Hamburg is nothing for the faint-hearted, each semester, some new, half-baked plan will amuse old hands and cause younglings to despair.
Today, I'm going to try and get someone to explain to me what I'll have to do when I change from my ordinary Magister-course to the "state examination" teachers have to take in Germany. The courses themselves are pretty much the same, it's just another title and stupendous amounts of paperwork if you want to change your course. The only difference is that you have to take more of everything as a teacher and have to do internships and Latin.
Oh, and I'll get my Latin results today. *crosses fingers*
Anything else? Uh, no. *sigh* Nothing interesting ever happens in my life. Other than waiting for Stine to work properly I am reading a lovely book on "courtly culture". I'd love to be able to go back to the late years of the 12 century and hear what those Minne songs really sounded like.
Couldn't these guys hurry a little with realising that not only church music deserved proper notation? I know that those cunning folks have been using neumes back in the 9th century, couldn't they be a little more liberal and teach those illiterate courtiers not only to write the words but the notes of their songs as well?
It feels so pointless to look at the text of a song without any idea whatsoever what the music sounded like.
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