:) first post in months even though i have a midterm friday
A lot of things have happened, but I just haven't felt the urge to post. Maybe I should start a new journal, hahaha...to record what happens in college.
:) Berkeley has been...paradoxical. On one hand, it's so social because you go outside your dorm and you can find somebody to play Pokemon/Neopets/Gaia/any other immature kid game with, but at the same time, it's sometimes hard to find someone you can really confide in.
I'm in ~
Math 1B (aka "the BC part of BC on crack")
Music in American Cultures (easy and fun :) I love this class)
Psych 1 (exact same book as high school...easy as hell and why the heck did I take this class?! too cautious)
Environmental Science 10 (an intro class...it is awesome)
Math 1B--I have professor Bergman. I don't really like this class. Our poor GSI [who is incidentally cute in that nerdy, smart but clean cut way] ends up trying to teach AND answer questions in the 2 hrs per week that we have section. :/ He grades really easily though, and he's a fairly decent teacher. I think he'd be interesting to know outside of class, as a friend, but alas it is awkward to attempt that kind of thing when he's your GSI. I have an A so far...but the next midterm is likely to kill me.
GSIs are weird. How should one address them? They say "just first name is fine" but it is kind of awkward to do that. I feel like I should at least tack on a -senpai, but alas, nothing like that exists in English. The GSIs here call their supervising professor by the first name...I don't know if it's just a Berkeley thing, but that just feels wrong.
Music is a lovely class. The professor is a master of ppt...not too wordy, clear, not too flashy, AND he lectures at exactly the pace you write.
That's where I met a number of very cool people... :) such as my friend Momo who has a phone that's completely covered with rhinestones. Not to mention her nails...which are covered with 3D stickers...
And I met two fobs there, one of which is the classic rich Chinese playa. Extremely social, always dating hot girls, and spending huge amounts of money on them--there's more fine fragrances in his cupboard than there are sauces. He's nice enough--he wishes me good luck on MSN if my status says I have a midterm coming. But he's half joking, half serious when he squawks when somebody steps on his shoes.
It seems it'd be very tiring to live with, or live up to, that kind of person.
The other fob is a very cute Korean guy who seems...aloof, but still lonely. Maybe I'm overthinking it, but he tends to drift out of conversations and walk off to the side, looking lonely. Language/cultural barrier? Age? He's 21, the rest of us are 18...I doubt it's age. But he's surprisingly kind, even if the first thing he asks about a girl is "is she pretty?"
The shallow fob stereotype...not sure if it's true.
Oh, and race is definitely a big thing here.