Day 1

Today was wrent in twain. 9:20-Psychology: The teacher is an old passive talkative man who laughs at jokes that nobody else notices are jokes. He should be a good teacher and psyche sounds like it should be easy enough to ace. 10:20-Anthropology: first I went left to the business building, then went right to the other side of campus and never found the building. So I asked a pedestrian where Olin was and she was going there and it turns out Olin is the business building. Keith is in that class and I know a couple other kids' names, but nothing much else about them. But yay! A copy buddy! I would never cheat though. Myers teaches it and I've heard good things. He seems energetic and encourages discussion. Sounds like a moderately tough course for most, but easy for me. I ate breakfast and Josh found me and I had an conversation buddy. 1:00-Economics. I sat down on time and in the right place, but when he handed out the syllabus it turns out it was Finance class. I asked a neighbor, who looked at my schedule, puzzled for a moment, then said, "it's tuesday." "Oh! Frickin' sweet! This is the best day ever. I got up and left. I had escaped a two hour class, so you can guess I had an apple of joy in my stomach. I went up to keith's and watched Almost Famous. At 320 I had EnglishII. This teacher is the perfect teacher for what I want in an english professor. She's always open for conferences, encourages discussion, and is easy to talk to, but on the other hand is serious about grading papers and grading. She seems like she gives out a lot of C's and B's but I should be able to easily get an A based on the amount of time I'll put into writing and my desire to learn. In case you don't know, I like to write, and I'm interested in learning how to write better. However, I had to distinguish myself, in my own eyes, as someone who speaks up in class. There's this difficulty I have with speaking in front of people I don't know. So I volunteered upon her request to read a passage in a poem. I had no qualms deciding to do it and began reading. But suddenly my heart started racing to the point where I could see it beating through my shirt. My adrenaline had kicked in and I grew short of breath reading. I tried to make it through the passage but it only left my voice weak. I took a longer pause to breath, then gulped down my choking adams apple, and finished reading. I don't know what happened. I don't have a problem with public speaking. I wasn't nervous in my mind, but my body went through all the signs of nervousness. It was like my mind was battling my body in a chess game while the class listened. Anyways, I don't know why, but I'm always unable to speak around strangers because it's so uncomfortable for me, but once I know them, it's extremely easy for me to say what is on my mind. Weird, wouldn't you say? It looks as though, despite my resolve to put forth lots of effort at school, I'll still have plenty of free time. This means more raquetball, Halo, poker, lifting, reading and writing. Finally we got some books, also worded as: I got a book because I need it tomorrow for class. As for Psyche, brian lent me his books, and keith his english books, and I'll get the rest online and save mucho dinero. The book was twelve, which vexed me, because it's only 59 pages long and should be worth about eight at the most. Then it was back here for more co-op w/ keith, dinner, and when he's done w/ karate we go weight lift. It should be exactly the same lift schedule as last semester: tues, thurs, sunday, but the people doing karate switched. My room is still really empty, and I keep whining, "I'm soo looonely!" but I'm getting more used to it. The suite is a lot more empty without bob and his stuff taking up space. He was very talkative and always filled the suite with the sound of his voice, making it seem busy and active. Now, silence replaces his comments. It's much more dull around here. I have to leave soon to lift, but I will return later for more of my thinkings.