school school school.. i'm starting to get excited about school already
wow. i just realized how strange my schedule will be next semester... on mwf, i have classes straight from 9:30am to 3:30pm. plus, i plan on continuing to work for role models, which means that i won't get out from school and activities until 5:30pm, at which point i shall surely attack the greasy stands of the O in a manner that no man has ever seen before. on mondays, also, advanced calc eats up 7-11pm.
on t, i have classes 8:30-10:30am. on r, my last class - undergraduate colloquium with ghosh! who is my advisor, and whom i like very much - ends at 11:30am.
this is all a huge relief, as last semester, i had no evenings monday thru friday in which i was even remotely near free before 9:30. even after i schedule time with my old lady, the only day that i will be busy after 5:30 is monday. i will probably go to puccc (physics upper class course center) a lot, but that is perfectly acceptable as course center is for studying and getting help. yay. :D
i have been thinking about trying to save money for a return to guangzhou over winter break of 2005. i'm not sure if there's a university like this in guangzhou, but fudan university in shanghai allows people to study chinese language for any number of weeks as they choose - and if i could do that in guangzhou in order to keep my oral communication fresh, that would be super; it doesn't necessarily have to be for credit. studying chinese exclusively even for just a short period so far has helped me a lot. winter break 05-06 is a few days shy of four weeks long (beginning officially on december 21 and ending on january 16), but i wonder if universities in guangzhou take breaks for the gregorian new year? fudan has classes running continuously. plus i like guangzhou because things are cheep, like footrubs and drinks and clothes, and i'd be able to get around fairly well since i am a native speaker of cantonese and all that. mm. excitement.
in other news, we found a place that will serve you a huge, tasty, healthy bowl of noodles for 3 kuai - that is, roughly 37 us cents. i think we have eaten there three nights in a row.
pgh needs to get a place like that. large bowls of tasty, healthy noodles for 3 rmb would be great, but i would be perfectly okay with large bowls of tasty, healthy noodles for 3 usd.
heh. also i just found out that the drinking age in china is actually 18 for sure. one of our group, who is 20, got asked for id the other night at pegasus.
on t, i have classes 8:30-10:30am. on r, my last class - undergraduate colloquium with ghosh! who is my advisor, and whom i like very much - ends at 11:30am.
this is all a huge relief, as last semester, i had no evenings monday thru friday in which i was even remotely near free before 9:30. even after i schedule time with my old lady, the only day that i will be busy after 5:30 is monday. i will probably go to puccc (physics upper class course center) a lot, but that is perfectly acceptable as course center is for studying and getting help. yay. :D
i have been thinking about trying to save money for a return to guangzhou over winter break of 2005. i'm not sure if there's a university like this in guangzhou, but fudan university in shanghai allows people to study chinese language for any number of weeks as they choose - and if i could do that in guangzhou in order to keep my oral communication fresh, that would be super; it doesn't necessarily have to be for credit. studying chinese exclusively even for just a short period so far has helped me a lot. winter break 05-06 is a few days shy of four weeks long (beginning officially on december 21 and ending on january 16), but i wonder if universities in guangzhou take breaks for the gregorian new year? fudan has classes running continuously. plus i like guangzhou because things are cheep, like footrubs and drinks and clothes, and i'd be able to get around fairly well since i am a native speaker of cantonese and all that. mm. excitement.
in other news, we found a place that will serve you a huge, tasty, healthy bowl of noodles for 3 kuai - that is, roughly 37 us cents. i think we have eaten there three nights in a row.
pgh needs to get a place like that. large bowls of tasty, healthy noodles for 3 rmb would be great, but i would be perfectly okay with large bowls of tasty, healthy noodles for 3 usd.
heh. also i just found out that the drinking age in china is actually 18 for sure. one of our group, who is 20, got asked for id the other night at pegasus.