danceAP

danceAP yeah so i guess im joining the what im doing this IAP bandwagonâ€"in the month-long lull that is IAP, there isn’t much to talk about besides what you’re doing with your time i actually had no idea what i was doing this IAP until the day it began. this was because i was planning on taking a class to satisfy the culture course requirement for MISTI Israel, but since i had no idea if i had been accepted to the program or not (and was supposed to find out before i left for Christmas break), i couldn’t register for the class. as a backup, i signed up for web.lab, a web development class/programming competition. i thought the class sounded cool, but i wasn’t that motivated to do it since i knew it wouldn’t be the best use of my time. thankfully, on the way to my first day of web.lab, i received an email letting me know that i had been accepted to MISTI Israel! yay!!! i immediately registered for the culture class and dropped web.lab. so everything worked out in the end! i feel adequately busy this IAP, but i still have enough time to hang out with the people i care about. #thriving 17.567 â€" Israel: History, Politics, Culture, and Identity the culture course for MISTI Israel! it’s 10-1 on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and although classes go by quickly, a grueling three hours of class so early in the morning is difficult to handle. all things considered, though, i really enjoy this class; the professor makes lectures engaging and thought-provoking, and the content is fascinating. we have a significant amount of reading to do for each class, but it’s all so informative that i enjoy doing it. i’ve already learned so much history from a variety of different perspectives, which is new for meâ€"my prior history classes were fairly limited in their scope of narratives.   this class is just one of the many options available for satisfying the MISTI Israel requirements. i chose to take it since it was one of the two recommended courses and because i wanted to get it out of the way during IAP so i can focus on more technical classes in the spring. Mocha Moves i thought six hours of dance a week was badyeah, no. i’ve been dancing 1-4 hours a day. a DAY. i have 20 hours of dance this week and i’m only doing seven of the 12 dances!! which means that i’m usually occupied with dance between 6 and 10 every night. i also am choreographing two dances, so i work on those during the day. that’s a lot of dance fam i’m really grateful that i get the chance to do this, though! every dance i’m in is a lot of fun, and the thought of performing them at Mocha Show in February is super exciting. also, this month is a great opportunity to grow as a dancerâ€"chances to dance in so many different styles in such a short period of time are pretty scarce.   UROP i have a UROP in the political science department that involves using natural language processing methods to analyze a hUge archive of documents from the Brazilian dictatorship between 1964 and 85. its a really cool project and im glad i was able to find it last-minute at the start of IAPits possible, guys Cooking i unfortunately didnt cook much during my first semester, but im a new woman this IAP. cooking is so enjoyable tbh. its therapeutic and fun and satisfying since you get to EAT the food you make!! i feel like the typical college student experience is googling things like kimchi omelet and asparagus goat cheese because at some point, you end up stockpiling a lot of random ingredients that you need to use all at once. well, it worksi made some dope broccoli soup by throwing together a lot of ingredients that were about to go bad. we stan IAPs almost over now, but im super super excited for spring semester!! see you then :) Post Tagged #IAP