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Hey, MIT has a class on Modern Science Fiction! Wicked. "Students investigate various short stories from "the Golden Age" to "neuromantic" and postmodern science fiction: the 1950s to the present. Students write critical essays and their own works of science fiction, and submit critical analyses of each other's efforts in a roundtable workshop environment." And another in Interactive and Non-Linear Narrative: Theory and Practice -- "Techniques of creating narratives that take advantage of the flexibility of form offered by the computer. Study of the structural properties of book-based narratives that experiment with digression, multiple points of view, disruptions of time and of storyline. Analysis of the structure and evaluation of the literary qualities of computer-based narratives including hypertexts, adventure games, and classic artificial intelligence programs like Eliza. With this base, students use authoring systems to model a variety of narrative techniques and to create their own fictions. Knowledge of programming helpful but not necessary.". And -- I'll stop cut and pasting now -- but Digital Poetry! Screw computer science, I'm majoring in writing. :P OK, there are interesting course 6 classes too. More than a few. Yay, college!

In other news: so I have this unexpected day off tomorrow. Anyone wanna do something? -- I should probably, you know, actually call people if I want to get out of the house, but this whole passive thing is so much easier. Later I will, really. :P