A Fresh Start, and What Happened to January?

Can someone please tell me where the month of January went? I feel like I just finished packing my car to move home, and somehow it’s two weeks into Spring semester already. If one thing stands out about college, it’s how quickly time passes. Sometimes I’ll think I shaved in the morning, but then I’ll look and I have a beard (and no, I haven’t yet reached the level of manliness at which I could sprout a thick layer in a single day); I get out of class at one on most days, but the next time I look at the clock it’s almost always five. I don’t get it. Anyways, I realized I haven’t done a blog in a while, so let’s take this chance to catch up.

Break was great. As much as I love school, some rest and relaxation can never hurt. I made the trek back to campus on Jan. 18th, and dove into classes on the 20th. Since then, it’s been a blur. In one of my earlier entries, I wrote about course selection and about how I was one of the lucky ones. My schedule could not have worked out any better – I never have a class before 10 a.m., and my latest class ends at 1 p.m. So yes, it is possible to get the schedule of your dreams.

The first day of classes this semester was similar to the first day in the fall, except it was 12 degrees instead of 85 and I knew where all my classes were. (A quick timeout for an embarrassing story/piece of advice for future college students: find all of your classrooms before classes start. I knew all of the buildings I needed to be in, so I assumed I was set, but I had copied a room number down incorrectly off of my schedule, and I spent an hour hiking up and down Mt. St. James searching for a room that didn’t exist. I had sweat dripping off of me, I was out of breath, and I was thoroughly confused. So please, locate the rooms.)

My Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays start with Spanish (10 a.m.) and end with Philosophy (12 noon). These two classes form the metaphorical bread in what I call the Montserrat (11 a.m.) sandwich. On Tuesdays and Thursdays I have one class, Sociology, at 11 a.m. So far everything is going swimmingly, and I’m happy with all of my choices. For those prospective students who will enter school undeclared, I highly recommend taking a variety of classes. Dabble in as many areas as possible. This will not only help you pinpoint your major down the road, but it will make things more interesting in the present.

All in all, the Spring semester is a fresh start. If it’s as exciting and entertaining as the Fall (which, no doubt, it will be), I’ll be in for a great couple of months. Come back and keep reading, and you can experience it with me.

Oh, and if anyone is wondering what happened to me when I got lost…

I figured out my mistake around the same time the class I was supposed to be attending finished. I had actually walked right past the classroom four times. I swallowed the lump that was my pride and located my Professor’s office to tell him what had happened. Luckily, he told me he too was “directionally challenged”, and not to worry about it. No sweat…Well, except for the actual sweat I worked up during my search.

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