Syllabus for August

To encourage myself to finish these tasks, I shall post them to 'the world'. (also, as a personal reference with hope of crossing them out as I go)

Review Arabic:
-Vocab! Everything from 'ministry of economics' to 'fish'
-Practice sentence structure
-Adjectives and related grammar -_-
-Brush up on verbs and tenses
-Remember (memorize) how to make nouns plural. No, really- its complicated as fuck.

Read Madame Bovary (en francais)
-Include brief review of passe simple (dumb)

- If its too unbearable, just listen to mom's audio book for basic plot overview (in english)

-Mental preparation for fourteen weeks of Novack

Remember what numbers are!

-i. e. read some of Stat textbook, understand wtf is going on

Less urgent- non-coursework related tasks- in order of 'importance'

Read Before European Hegemony
-Get ideas for honors project
-Ideas for next summer fellows

-Develop crush on Ibn Battuta
-read related articles
-prepare argument to convince Doughty to be my honors advisor

Apply for Study Abroad
-including CIEE scholarships

-Collect books on how to not die in Morocco

Re-re-re-read drivers manual, visit DMV, pass written test before Aug 20, pass drivers test after Aug 20.......icky

Research Grad school/schools

-cry a little in confusion

-panic

-realize poverty
-other details unknown

Brainstorm ideas for STAND

-calendar for the semester

-ideas to capture and retain freshmen

-make contacts, find speakers

-One Night Stand, can it be done?

Clean (uproot) room

-purge books, clothes, shoes
-Dig out both closets

-recover from ensuing asthma attack