One Week Gone

It’s such a good feeling to have made it through Week 1 without any major mishaps.

I managed to get up early every morning, only oversleeping by ten minutes on one of those mornings. I have since implemented the two-alarm system. I do crazy things to my bedside alarm at that time of the morning. Alarm number two sits on the other side of the room.

I’m enjoying algebra, for now, but it’s taking a bit to get my algebra legs back under me. It’s been nine and a half months since I’ve thought of exponents, factoring, FOIL, etc. Mrs. P, the professor, likes to ask questions of her students and get immediate (and correct) responses from them. For the most part, I’m not one that is able to give those quick responses. I’m usually still processing the problem she just whipped out on the board. We’re already into factoring, one of my favorite things in algebra thus far. I’m just worried about the time when we quit reviewing and start on the new stuff.

German isn’t too bad so far. My prof, Mr. S, is an interesting character. He is willing to do all sorts of contortions in order to get his point across. He did an amazing job of learning nearly everyone’s name in the first thirty minutes of class. My Dutch is serving me well, but coming back to haunt me at other times. Oh, and remember the vegetarian that came for Sunday lunch? I think one of their sons is in my class. I’m still horrified at the whole episode.

Meteorology should be an okay class. I think Mr. B will be a student’s teacher. He still has his experiences as a student fresh on his mind so he knows about the things that make a prof a terrible teacher. He will give us plenty of opportunities for extra credit. He plans to use our top ten quizzes and homework assignments for that portion of the grade. He even gave us a choice between a five-problem quiz worth twenty points each or a ten-problem quiz worth ten points each. We chose ten problems.

Basic Computer Literacy is my Tuesday, Thursday class. It turns out that I only have to show up on Thursdays. Maybe I’ll learn some useful stuff about spam, viruses, and spyware. Almost everything except for the tests can be done at my own pace, on campus or at home. The only former classmate of mine that I’ve seen in any of my classes is a guy from Speech that is in my BCL class.

I met another of Kris’s classmates on Friday. Fortunately, it was only a “Hey” moment because we met on the stairs, surrounded by other students and I was late for German. The meeting was so brief that I couldn’t even describe him. The only thing that I really noticed was that his glasses had photo gray tint on them.

Several thoughts from the week:

If I’m not careful when it’s raining, Hydroplane is one adventure ride I’ll be taking.

New shoes have to be broken in. They can inflict pain until such breaking in has taken place.

Compliments are always nice, even when given grudgingly by a person that rarely distributes compliments.