My First Day of School--I mean College--I mean...*new* University?
...Calstate LA's classes started today. Here's a summary of how it went for me:
æ I'm late, I'm late---ho~w? I don't think I've ever had this much time to get ready, and still I managed to take my time O.o;
æ Valley Blvd? USO! Totally walked to the wrong direction! I wasted 10 min walking towards Valley Blvd when I should've been walking to Hellmont x.x
æ I arrive on campus, I take freakin' forever to find the right classroom (ET's A wing is constructed in a stupid way >.> too many doors and the hallways are only connected on one end) after asking two equally clueless people; I sit down and take a handout from the nice substitute professor and then I realize this is Psychology & Science? ...What?. I take a look at my schedule: it's the right class room---WRONG DAY. ><;;;;;;; I'm supposed to be in Japanese B, but luckily it was just a short 15 min introduction so I politely sat through the class before taking off to KH. The ridiculous thing about this (as Shirley so nicely pointed out to me at lunch -.-) is that I already went through this wrong day business last night when I thought I had 11:40AM class, but around 3AM noticed that Thursdays class starts at 1:30PM for me -______________-;;;
æ At lunch the lady who sold me coffee laughed in my face when I wanted a "raisin thingy", apparently I remind her of her daughter--I was afraid to ask how old her daughter is =='
æ This cute white & gray cat came and sat right in front of my feet at lunch; it came two-three times and I even tried to feed it but instead it just wanted to stare at me o.o;; Cute, though xD
æ Went in the wrong direction after I came out of the library; took me a while to figure that out though ^^;;;;;;;
æ Came out of my English History class and went the wrong way again, so I had to make a huuuuge circle back to the parking lot.
Haha...I wasn't being modest when I said I have no sense of direction; without a map I'd be totally lost (so glad I was forced to join girl scouts as a kid...this is when you appreciate all the stuff you despised as a kid). Today I made a mental note of how much it'd cost to feed a car, and walking 15-20 min to campus doesn't seem so bad anymore. Especially if you consider the "traffic" we have on campus o.O; and the fact that I can't even park in the driveway (I'd still have to walk a little).
Anyhoo, aside from my hopelessness, today was pretty good. Didn't get much done or anything, but my Japanese class is easy (should've taken Jap C instead, but this way I don't have to study so hard xP) and my English professor has a funny high-pitched voice. And while he went on about the grammar of Old English, Middle English, and New English; I found myself thinking about English grammar in comparison to Finnish grammar (especially with OE, which is really similar). This is weird, 'cause my English should be better than my Finnish (okay, it is) and I should suck equally at the grammar of both. In fact if I had understood that studying The History of English would consequently have me review English grammar rules I don't think I would've signed up for the class (except that it's required for my major so damn...><). When it came to Old English words, I thought many of them looked a lot like Swedish words...xD
Calstate is really different from Menlo--not just in size, but mainly in how there are people everywhere; some alone, some chatting, some on the phone, some talking...It feels like being at the center of a city where there's a lot of action and noise. Today I just watched people go by while talking to Shirley and I thought this is what I like; the privacy of being unknown in a rapidly moving sea of individuals.
æ I'm late, I'm late---ho~w? I don't think I've ever had this much time to get ready, and still I managed to take my time O.o;
æ Valley Blvd? USO! Totally walked to the wrong direction! I wasted 10 min walking towards Valley Blvd when I should've been walking to Hellmont x.x
æ I arrive on campus, I take freakin' forever to find the right classroom (ET's A wing is constructed in a stupid way >.> too many doors and the hallways are only connected on one end) after asking two equally clueless people; I sit down and take a handout from the nice substitute professor and then I realize this is Psychology & Science? ...What?. I take a look at my schedule: it's the right class room---WRONG DAY. ><;;;;;;; I'm supposed to be in Japanese B, but luckily it was just a short 15 min introduction so I politely sat through the class before taking off to KH. The ridiculous thing about this (as Shirley so nicely pointed out to me at lunch -.-) is that I already went through this wrong day business last night when I thought I had 11:40AM class, but around 3AM noticed that Thursdays class starts at 1:30PM for me -______________-;;;
æ At lunch the lady who sold me coffee laughed in my face when I wanted a "raisin thingy", apparently I remind her of her daughter--I was afraid to ask how old her daughter is =='
æ This cute white & gray cat came and sat right in front of my feet at lunch; it came two-three times and I even tried to feed it but instead it just wanted to stare at me o.o;; Cute, though xD
æ Went in the wrong direction after I came out of the library; took me a while to figure that out though ^^;;;;;;;
æ Came out of my English History class and went the wrong way again, so I had to make a huuuuge circle back to the parking lot.
Haha...I wasn't being modest when I said I have no sense of direction; without a map I'd be totally lost (so glad I was forced to join girl scouts as a kid...this is when you appreciate all the stuff you despised as a kid). Today I made a mental note of how much it'd cost to feed a car, and walking 15-20 min to campus doesn't seem so bad anymore. Especially if you consider the "traffic" we have on campus o.O; and the fact that I can't even park in the driveway (I'd still have to walk a little).
Anyhoo, aside from my hopelessness, today was pretty good. Didn't get much done or anything, but my Japanese class is easy (should've taken Jap C instead, but this way I don't have to study so hard xP) and my English professor has a funny high-pitched voice. And while he went on about the grammar of Old English, Middle English, and New English; I found myself thinking about English grammar in comparison to Finnish grammar (especially with OE, which is really similar). This is weird, 'cause my English should be better than my Finnish (okay, it is) and I should suck equally at the grammar of both. In fact if I had understood that studying The History of English would consequently have me review English grammar rules I don't think I would've signed up for the class (except that it's required for my major so damn...><). When it came to Old English words, I thought many of them looked a lot like Swedish words...xD
Calstate is really different from Menlo--not just in size, but mainly in how there are people everywhere; some alone, some chatting, some on the phone, some talking...It feels like being at the center of a city where there's a lot of action and noise. Today I just watched people go by while talking to Shirley and I thought this is what I like; the privacy of being unknown in a rapidly moving sea of individuals.