SPAN 201: Intermediate Spanish I (MWF 9:30am-10:20am) - Gomez

H&PE 350: Health & Safety Issues in Schools (MW 10:30am-11:20am) - Sugarman

MATH 262: Applied Statistics (MWF 11:30am-12:20am) - Smith

CURR 316: Teaching Science & Math to Children (TR 8:00am-9:40am) - Rommel-Esham

CURR 213: The Reading & Writing Process (TR 9:55am-11:10am) - Kreutter

this is insanity. look at my potential schedule for next semester.

1. my only monday class starts at 5:00pm.
2. my tuesdays/thursdays are booked to the max.
3. i don’t have any classes on fridays.

( please note that i have no control over the days/times for three out of the five classes i’m taking. )

this schedule could make or break me. mostly break.

1. i got a 94 on my physics test! this is very very good, since i seriously got the lowest possible passing grade on my last test (69.5). my teacher drops the lowest score, so i’m trying super hard to do well on the remaining tests.

2. i’m sick, again. college has like stabbed my immune system or something, seriously. i’ve been at geneseo for two months, and i’ve been sick twice. UGH.

3. i finally met with my advisor and worked out what classes i’m taking next semester: MATH 222 (calc II), CHEM 103, PSYC 215 (for my major), INTD 203 (for my major), and MATH 140 (for my major). this should be fun. i’ve worked out my schedule would be, and my earliest class will be calc at 8:30! that’s an hour earlier than i have to get up now, ugh. but i’m done by 11:20 on TR, 1:20 on WF, and 5:30 on M (due to my chem lab). i guess it won’t be too bad. although i am taking two more credits than last semester…

so, i got back from orientation today. it was pretty okay. i drove down by myself for the first time, and met up with marie and sruthi when i arrived. we moved into our rooms (which we shared with roommates) and got a folder full of information for the whole two days, plus a free nalgene bottle. the first day was full of too-long lectures and awkward ice-breaker games.

i was glad that there were four of us from my school, because EVERYTHING about orientation is completely awkward. no one knows each other, so everyone looks like a loser at all times. we invited many people to sit with us at meals if they were by themselves.

that night was a “knight out” or something like that (the school mascot is a knight), and there was the “knight spot,” a so-called dance club, and at the union there was ice cream and a stage with a microphone that was supposed to be karaoke, but it didn’t work. after getting annoyed by the scrambling for ideas to replace karaoke, we left and went to see the knight spot. we walked in, looked around at about 40 people awkwardly dancing to “girlfriend” with strobe lights blinding us, and turned around and walked back out. we decided we’d instead sit on the grass outside of the club and talk, and our group of 4 soon turned into a group of 8 people talking about indie music, so it wasn’t too bad after all.

the next day included more lectures, but there was more time in between them to walk around and such. there was also the info fair, at which i acquired many new pens. after that i had my academic advisement, which is when i got my schedule.

- ANTH 100 | Intro to Cultural Anthropology | MWF | 9:30-10:20am | Krumrine
- MATH 221 | Calculus 1 | MWF | 10:30-11:20am | Towsley
- PHYS 101 | Science of Sound-Lecture | MF | 1:30-2:45pm | McLean
- PHYS 101 | Science of Sound-Lab | T | 10:00am-12:00pm | McLean
- THEA 100 | Intro. to the Theatre | TR | 2:10-3:25pm | Garland
- INTD 101 | Harry Potter Goes to College | W | 4:30-5:20pm | Hurlburt

yes, i’m taking a class about harry potter. amazing, yes? it’s only one day, and it’s only one credit. but i needed that one credit, i only had 14 without it.

after the meeting i drove myself and sruthi home. and took a really long shower. because i was sweaty. because it was 93 degrees out both days. and geneseo doesn’t have air conditioning.

SCHEDULE!!!

(( it’s posted on my lj because it’s too wide to fit in this journal ))

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i’m not sure what i think about this schedule. i have a ton of frees on days 1, 2, and 3. but i have none on 2, 4, and 6. this is exactly what happened last year and i hated it. so i’m kind of on the edge. but maybe i’ll warm up to it. day 1 is pretty friggin’ sweet.

i got my schedule today. i’ve got the following things to say about it:

• it sucks
• i have three (!) frees on the odd days, and zero (!) frees on the even days
• mr. porta is awesome
• mr. martz must be new, ’cause i’ve never heard of him
• etc.

kate has absolutely no classes or frees with me. i’m sad.