Minor college update: 

I think I'm sold on changing my school (from NYU College of Arts and Science to NYU Steinhardt) so that I can major in Media, Culture, and Communications (MCC). Furthering my belief that college is a series of bureaucratic experiences interspersed with actual learning, I probably won't be able to complete the transfer until Fall 2015. 

I'm still slightly  wary of majoring in something that has "communications" in the title but given the sort of classes I get to take as part of this major, I'm pretty excited. Right now, here are the briefs of the two MCC classes I'm registered for next semester: 

Privacy and Media
This course will explore the philosophical roots of privacy as a deeply held social value and consider how it may conflict with other values, such as freedom of speech, anonymity, efficiency, accountability, and national security.  Our discussions will be situated in leading ethical and legal controversies concerning new media tools (e.g., social networks, mobile apps, digital e-readers, wearable health sensors), practices (e.g., online tracking, behavioral advertising, automated face recognition, video surveillance), platforms (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, and Google Maps), and other topics shaping today's privacy discourse.

War as Media
This course examines the proposition that contemporary war should be understood as media. Was has become mediatized and media has been militarized. This course treats war and political violence as communicative acts and technologies and focuses on how they shape our understanding and experience of landscape, vision, body, time and memory.

Both sound super fascinating and they fit the media criticism track I'm trying to take in college. Apart from those, I'll be taking a class on the history of math and an introductory journalism class. In all, it should be a fun semester and I'll enjoy having Mondays off.