Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Thoughts of the Day: First Day of Class, 3rd Year at UNC

First Day of Class Reflections:

Most of my classes let out early.

I wore my reversible shorts inside-out on purpose, but I didn't mean to put my underwear on that way, too...

Coffee and tea with Renata and Lucas after French class was wonderful! It was nice to catch up. Lucas is hoping to study abroad in Cairo, Egypt in the spring (I am jealous, why did I not continue with Arabic???). Renata had a great time in Poland and Wednesday is her birthday woot woot! She is having an ambiguous party of some sort on Friday.

A person my friends know is in my women's studies class, and I was surprised to meet her there. Also a person from a group I was in last year is in that class.


Today in my political science class on the analysis of public opinion, I learned that the class counts as a QI (Quantitative Intensive course)... I accidentally signed myself up for an applied statistics class...I had no idea. It wasn't listed on the course description, was it??? Oops. I hope it's still interesting and doable...
I could tell immediately from all the enthusiasm and the project descriptions but lack of real content in the syllabus that the teacher was a graduate student and not a professor. I picked up on that immediately because I myself was like that as a camp counselor. During political science class, we went around the room and said who we were, where we were from, why we were in the class and what our favorite book was. There was a very well dressed male French (?) student who likes Fahrenheit 451, a book by Ray Bradbury for which I wrote an essay that won me $75 in an essay contest when I was 14. I am a fan of Ray Bradbury's writing, it's so beautiful. Anyway, going around and hearing people's book choices, I had a strong urge to snap every time I liked what one of them said and a sudden wave of nostalgia came over me. My eyes nearly teared up as I thought about how much I missed that, sitting in a circle at Lac du Bois, cabin council or réunions de staff where we did snapped our fingers whenever we agreed with or liked what someone said. Good times.

STV Open House is tonight and I am so pumped!!!

Marathon Club starts tomorrow and I am also so pumped!!!

I am so bad at getting homework done, here I am on the computer not doing it...

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