School Starts Again
Wow, I haven't made a post all summer! Well, since the last time I posted, I've gone home for a month (visiting people in Montreal and Toronto, and Waterloo of course) and been back in Saskatoon for 2.5 weeks. Except for the visit home, things haven't been overly eventful until a week ago.
Just like at Waterloo, Labour Day weekend is full of orientation excitement. But Orientation events actually started the last weekend of August. I went berry picking with some grad students and got a chicken pox scare. Having not known if I ever had chicken pox before, it freaked me out even more. Luckily, tests came back and I have had it before so yay! hopefully, I won't get it a second time. The count down continues.
Last Thursday and Friday was the International Students Orientation. You know me, of course I'm going to volunteer for it. hehehe. And past Monday and Tuesday was the normal Orientation. Things are SOOOOO different here. Personally, I like UW orientation much more. I should note that I still had fun at the orientations and met tons of people. I love this time of year. =) Loads of fun.
I originally thought that Single and Sexy was only done at UW. Why I thought that, I have no idea. But I came here and they have adapted it to suit USask, even changed the name to "The Real World". The story line is exactly the same but something was missing. I don't know if it was because of the technical difficulties or what but things weren't the same. There seemed to be much longer pauses between scenes and ruined the flow of things a bit. And quite a few jokes were ruined because the mic wasn't turned on and people couldn't hear. I thought it was funnier at UW.
The other difference was when the Engineers went on stage to represent their part of the university, they sang the Engineering Hymn, the real version. Even went into one verse of it. I thought they might go for all 40+ verses but thankfully, they only did the first one. I'm so used to the clean-orientation version for orientation week that I was surprised to hear them sing the real version.
Now, classes have started again. I hope I can handle my courses. I'm taking a HCI course, an Image processing course (how I wish I had brought my CS370 notes with me), and a research course. It won't be a light load but it's not very heavy either. I should survive it.... Let's hope all goes well.
Oh yeah, I'm also part of the Grad Student council this year. hehehe. I never thought I'd ever want to be part of a student council but here I am, trying it out. Thankfully, I didn't have to do campaigning and such. I probably wouldn't have done it if I had to campaign. Too much work than I'm willing to do. In any case, it should be a lot of fun doing it. I'm looking forward to the rest of the year.
Just like at Waterloo, Labour Day weekend is full of orientation excitement. But Orientation events actually started the last weekend of August. I went berry picking with some grad students and got a chicken pox scare. Having not known if I ever had chicken pox before, it freaked me out even more. Luckily, tests came back and I have had it before so yay! hopefully, I won't get it a second time. The count down continues.
Last Thursday and Friday was the International Students Orientation. You know me, of course I'm going to volunteer for it. hehehe. And past Monday and Tuesday was the normal Orientation. Things are SOOOOO different here. Personally, I like UW orientation much more. I should note that I still had fun at the orientations and met tons of people. I love this time of year. =) Loads of fun.
I originally thought that Single and Sexy was only done at UW. Why I thought that, I have no idea. But I came here and they have adapted it to suit USask, even changed the name to "The Real World". The story line is exactly the same but something was missing. I don't know if it was because of the technical difficulties or what but things weren't the same. There seemed to be much longer pauses between scenes and ruined the flow of things a bit. And quite a few jokes were ruined because the mic wasn't turned on and people couldn't hear. I thought it was funnier at UW.
The other difference was when the Engineers went on stage to represent their part of the university, they sang the Engineering Hymn, the real version. Even went into one verse of it. I thought they might go for all 40+ verses but thankfully, they only did the first one. I'm so used to the clean-orientation version for orientation week that I was surprised to hear them sing the real version.
Now, classes have started again. I hope I can handle my courses. I'm taking a HCI course, an Image processing course (how I wish I had brought my CS370 notes with me), and a research course. It won't be a light load but it's not very heavy either. I should survive it.... Let's hope all goes well.
Oh yeah, I'm also part of the Grad Student council this year. hehehe. I never thought I'd ever want to be part of a student council but here I am, trying it out. Thankfully, I didn't have to do campaigning and such. I probably wouldn't have done it if I had to campaign. Too much work than I'm willing to do. In any case, it should be a lot of fun doing it. I'm looking forward to the rest of the year.