Alive and overwhelmed
So I'm here at Yale, and there's been so much trauma/drama/(llama?)that I can't go into it all in detail, but here's a basic outline of what's happened:
-Dell cancelled my laptop order- TWICE! I had to drive out to best buy with my parents to buy a computer and a printer, all in about 20 minutes. It was insane.
-I went to the new IKEA in town (whose recent opening is the talk of the town) to buy a futon and a coffee table for my GIGANTIC common room, and nearly broke my cranium open on one of the metal racks. Turns out, IKEA is like the fancy Swedish version of Home Depot.
-I met my roommates. They're very nice people.
-My residential college is beautiful and I am allowed to have any visitors any time. VISIT ME.
-They waste NO TIME here to party- I was a little too overwhelmed though to partake of the festivities tonight seeing as it was my first night on campus.
-The freshman all met with the dean of the residential college to discuss class selections, and while he made me feel more comfortable he made me even more scared. He explained that 1/3 of our classes go toward our major, another 1/3 toward distributional requirements, and 1/3 to whatever we want. Then he went into selecting classes in each of those categories- basically it's all up to us. WHICH IS SCARY. But I really like it here. He was explaining that we were all selected because we're individuals and by the end of the four years we'll really be able to think as such. I just want to get comfortable and fast. It's weird, looking up to the seniors here now and thinking in awe, "woww...seniors...look at how much they've done!" after just leaving a situation where I was a senior being looked up to, struggling to remember how I felt about seniors as a freshman in high school.
-I learned that assholes are assholes anywhere, they're just smarter more pretentious assholes in some places. This fact in some way though does comfort me, as it somehow puts less pressure on me to adapt; I can learn to adapt to new people here the same way I've learned to adapt everywhere else, it's not a foreign culture. People are the same.
Anyway. Love to everyone. KEEP IN TOUCH WITH ME! I'll do my best to post/write/call but activities for the next couple of weeks are CRAZY. Don't any of you think I'm ignoring or forgetting you. All my lovin'.
-Dell cancelled my laptop order- TWICE! I had to drive out to best buy with my parents to buy a computer and a printer, all in about 20 minutes. It was insane.
-I went to the new IKEA in town (whose recent opening is the talk of the town) to buy a futon and a coffee table for my GIGANTIC common room, and nearly broke my cranium open on one of the metal racks. Turns out, IKEA is like the fancy Swedish version of Home Depot.
-I met my roommates. They're very nice people.
-My residential college is beautiful and I am allowed to have any visitors any time. VISIT ME.
-They waste NO TIME here to party- I was a little too overwhelmed though to partake of the festivities tonight seeing as it was my first night on campus.
-The freshman all met with the dean of the residential college to discuss class selections, and while he made me feel more comfortable he made me even more scared. He explained that 1/3 of our classes go toward our major, another 1/3 toward distributional requirements, and 1/3 to whatever we want. Then he went into selecting classes in each of those categories- basically it's all up to us. WHICH IS SCARY. But I really like it here. He was explaining that we were all selected because we're individuals and by the end of the four years we'll really be able to think as such. I just want to get comfortable and fast. It's weird, looking up to the seniors here now and thinking in awe, "woww...seniors...look at how much they've done!" after just leaving a situation where I was a senior being looked up to, struggling to remember how I felt about seniors as a freshman in high school.
-I learned that assholes are assholes anywhere, they're just smarter more pretentious assholes in some places. This fact in some way though does comfort me, as it somehow puts less pressure on me to adapt; I can learn to adapt to new people here the same way I've learned to adapt everywhere else, it's not a foreign culture. People are the same.
Anyway. Love to everyone. KEEP IN TOUCH WITH ME! I'll do my best to post/write/call but activities for the next couple of weeks are CRAZY. Don't any of you think I'm ignoring or forgetting you. All my lovin'.