Let the constant studying begin

The Fall semester begins tomorrow (for some of us, at least). Some of my big, menacing engineering textbooks arrived this weekend. I've been reading through them a bit and have to say that they are at least more interesting than anything we covered last year. But that's not saying much. That train of thought has led me to the notion of rating my interest in different potential course subjects. On a scale of 1-5, with 1 being complete disinterest, misery, and ranting about the subject's pointlessness and 5 being a subject that does not require effort to pay attention nor feel like "school" or "work." Everybody got that? Okay, here goes:

Last year's subjects:
Differential Equations (a.k.a. Calculus IV): 0 (I would give it a negative rating, but I'm afraid someone would misinterpret the minus sign and think I was just giving it a good grade. The asinine textbook attempted to teach a "math" subject with lots and lots of words! As much as I love the written word, I do NOT learn math through vague paragraphs explaining equally vague concepts about mathematical nonsense.)

Physics II: 1 (Circuits, charges, resistors? Ugh, I don't care. But at least there were fewer lousy X-Y graphs and Calculus equations mixed in than there were in Physics I)

Thermodynamics: 1.5 (Horrifically vague and conceptual -- not just to me, but to all engineering students. Page after page of outlandish equations. And to make matters worse our textbook was written for Hell's Engineering College, where students are tortured for eternity with books that are mostly incoherent and indecipherable.)

Materials Science: 0.5 (The only edge is had over DE was that it was not entirely about insipid Calculus functions and actually covered real-life concepts. Unfortunately, the class came after 3 other back-to-back-to-back classes, leaped around from concept to concept, covered a thousand different annoying and similar equations, and was taught in such a manner as to make it seem like a good way to get information out of captured terrorists. Even though I was utterly disinterested in DE, by the end I didn't mind going to that class -- but Materials was misery. Pure misery.)

Potential Classes, Future Classes, Other Past Classes, Etc:
College Football 101: 5
Advanced Beer Brewing: 5
Victoria's Secret Supermodels Field Study: 5
Animal Behavior: 5
The Works of Joseph Heller, Douglas Adams, and Mark Twain: 5
Straight Forward How-To Make, Fix, Heal, and Perform Everything From Penicillin to Minor Surgery: 5
Comedic Improv: 5
Fantasy Sports Science: 5
Independent Study - Novel Writing: 5
World War II History (without perspective of the "blame America" crowd, i.e. American not presented as a negative entity): 5
Film-making: 4.5
Wine-tasting and Cheese-eating: 4.5
Tomato Farming: 4.5
Straight Forward Specific Explanation of how Medications React With the Human Body (no x-y graphs or equations allowed): 4
Astronomy: 4
Wildlife Biology: 4 (potential for 5)
Firearm Instruction and Safety: 4
Script-writing: 4
Pyschology: 4
Theories of Stephen Hawking: 3.5
Space Exploration: 3.5 (potential for 4 or 4.5 depending on professor and presentation of material)
UFOs and Other Unexplained Phenomenon: 3.5 (loses points because it has the potential to get really wacky and baseless)
Study of Military Aircraft and Seagoing Vessels Throughout History: 3.5
Military Tactics: 3
Rollercoaster Design: 3
Coffee - From the Field to Your Cup: 3
Surviving in the Wild/Surviving Collapse of Civilization: 3
Meteorology: 3
Botany: 2.5
Infectious Diseases: 2.5
Anatomy: 2.5
History of the Olympic Games: 2
Skyscraper Engineering: 2
Aeronautical Engineering: 2
Biology: 2
Property Law: 2
Criminal Law: 2
Economics: 1
Cell Biology: 1
Statistics: 1
Physics: 1
How-To Use Your Graphing TI Calculator: 1
Computer Programming: 0
Calculus: 0
Study of X-Y Graphs: 0
Talking on the Phone With Credit Card Companies: 0
Dealing with Academic and Federal Bureaucracy: 0
Self-Dentistry: 0