So yea. i know that title was lame, but it was really the only thing i could think to call this entry cause nothing moved me in terms of a title. Anyway, break's over and classes are in session here at EC again. Today was the first day and wednesdays are gonna be fairly easy for me. Class from 9-10 and then free hours for homework and stuff until 7pm when i have an orientation thing for my may term in Greece.
that class thats on wednesday morngins from 9-10 also meets mondays and fridays, and while its a philosophy class, it seems like it should be manageable. the reading should be fine, even if i have to do it 2 times to understand some of the stuff and theorize on it. There's gonna be a crap ton of papers in the class, but most of them are short reflection papers. I'm a good writer so yea, i just need to use alot of good vocab.
Anyway, all my other classes meet for the first time tomorrow or friday, so yea. I feel good that things are back to relative nromalcy here, but at the same time with the papers i'm gonna have for the above class, my english class and the work i'm gonna have outside of class for Human development (more on that later) i dont think i'll be able to volunteer at boys and Girls club in town this semester, which is a shame, cause i liked doing it the past 2 years and i couldnt last semester cause of classes and stuff. It's a shame cause the kids there were fun when i was working there, in spite of a few issues, though the turnover in terms of staff there is ridiculuous.
In other news, i've got a good view from my room at this time of year, when theres like 3-4 inches of snow on the ground. it just looks so nice. Now that i think about it, i should probably recap things since last post. Not much really interesting happened last week on thursday and friday really. Saturday night my folks and i finished a very good movie called Ghost town. It's got Ricky Gervais and Greg Kinnear, and i think its labeled as a romatic comedy, but its more of a comedy than romance, though there is that element between Ricky Gervais's character and the main female lead. It's a good movie, you all should check it out. Sunday AM, i left to come back here cause we had enrollment confirmation on Monday (Enroll confirmation for any non Earlham people who read this is literally where the students show up to one fo the buildings on campus, sign something and leave, comfirming theyre herre this semester). The reason why it was on monday was because they felt the need to have Tuesday be a dya where Faculty and students give a series of teach-ins on stuff they want to do or have done recently on campus, in town or back in their hometowns. While i'm sure it was fun for people who went, i had no interest in it, and thought it was poor planning for them to screw over the student body by bumping enrollment comfirmation up a day. What i think they shouldve done is have community day on the first day of the mid-semester long weekend. Oh and the people in charge of enrollment confirmation, did nto give us adequate notification, they literally sent 2 e-mails, one of which was primarily abotu grades being up on the older student database here. In that e-mail they literally just tacked on the enrollment confirmation date change at the bottom of the e-mail and it wasnt even mentioned in the heading of the e-mail. The second e-mail wasnt even sent until the day before, when most of us were either getting here, or packing to get here on monday. They shoulda sent something along the lines of an APB at the end of last semesters and ahad advisors remind their advisees.
I spent most of tueday catchign up with people and wacthing the last 4 espisodes of a anime i got for x-mas (It has a crap ton of set-up and a few filler episodes that aren't good for anything other than character development, but when it ramped up it was good. even if the death of one of the main characters was a bit bleh), and then Donnie Darko and District 9. I highly reccomend district 9 to people that like action/drama. ITs a brilliant video that feels a bit like a documentary at first.
Back to class stuff for this last paragraph, human development is my last non senior psych class and it should be fun. ITs taught by my advisor, who is awesome and the whole premise in the class is we learn a theory or 2 and then in small groups observe a kid in the community around Earlham and do a big group paper on the child and how they apply or dont to the various psych theories. Should be interesting.
Anyway, this post was way longer than intended, so i guess i'll close it out be saying this. go out and rent/ netflix both District 9 and Ghost Town. and I got a new transformer figure in the mail on monday, and he's awesome.
Anyway, thats it for me this week. if something drastic happens, i'll post again. If not, I'll see you readers on the 20th.
