Actually updating on the day I'm supposed to... sweet.
So today, I figured since I went to sleep so early that I wouldn't need an alarm. Whew, almost missed class. Luckily Peter e-mailed me at 9:55am to see if I had left yet, which I clearly hadn't. I threw some clothes on and then went to our class which was pretty short. We just talked about Wedge Theory for climate change and what we thought we should do. We got our tests back. I did well enough that to get a 70% in the class, I need a 27/100 on the paper; to get a 75% in the class, I need a 48/100. I think that I feel pretty good about not having started yet, and will probably just throw some random information together and put my thoughts on the situation at the Cahabar River National Wildlife Refuge. Should be fun. After class, I ran back to my room to take a shower. After that, I grabbed a chicken souvlaki and watched some soccer on tv. Pretty good game: semi-final of the Champions League. I had to leave for class part way through the game though. Heat Transfer wasn't particularly interesting though. We learned about how to finish our code on the problem modeling Hot Dog cooking though so that was cool. After that class, I went to try to be productive for a couple of hours in Sever, but that failed. I then went to meet Ehi and put up stuff on people's doors and get ready for our floor meeting on closing info. It was better well attended due to us calling it mandatory, but everyone still wasn't there. It was short and was followed by Ehi and I hanging out for a bit. I then put stuff back in my room and went to get food. While standing in line watching people come and go--some I knew, some I didn't--I realized that I'm not really friends with all of my residents. Like, I had already come to terms with this fact long ago, but it hit home more while I was sitting there and some residents walked past and others would wave and whatever. While I'm their RA, most of my interaction with them is when something is wrong, or not going the way they want it to, or whatever. Very few people just want to chat for the sake of chatting. They don't want to know anything about my life in particular and they don't really allow time in their ranting for me to find out their story. This poses an interesting problem of whether I'm actually close with my residents or not, but besides that it's just sort of disappointing. I know them well enough to know their cool and I want to know them better, but they should probably focus on the people who are going to be around them for 3 more years more than some non-enchanting kid who leaves in less than a month. Oh well, kind of a lonely feeling on the South 40 when I thought about that, but it's not that big of a deal. I can empathize with that. I then ate my dinner in my room while I watched Modern Family and then came to campus around 10. Me and Tom talked about some design stuff, but it ultimately devolved into me doing some Environmental Lab stuff and now writing this. This week is still crazy, but it feels more manageable to me for some reason. But to make it that manageable, I need to go sleep, so good night.