All right then, it's about time I wrote a long, detailed post about what I'm going to be forced to endure this term. ::smirk:: Skip it if it bores you to tears; I'll post something fandom-related afterward.

( A rundown of the classes: )

My 'class' today went something like this ( Read more... )

I am officially Not Old. Mwahahaha!

( On Friday I saw the ocean. )

My experiences with Penn thus far have had me wildly fluctuating back and forth between "wow, I am so totally in the right place, I'm ridiculously thrilled to be here" and "Christ on toast, I hate this place, why did I come to this hellhole ( Read more... )

Hey, do you all remember not too long ago when me journal was mostly filled with a bunch of entries about school-related things that everyone skipped over???

...Yeah.

( Probably TMI about my archaeology field class and my course schedule. )

I'm sitting in the middle of the UPenn campus, on my laptop, on the university's wireless network, updating my LJ!

Yes, the sole purpose of this post was to say that.

The incoming anthropology grad students had an informal orientation session this morning. It was pretty uneventful, but I got to chat with the one other new physical anthropology ( Read more... )

My meeting with my new graduate advisor today was AWESOME. She's exuberant, a little bit eccentric, and seems enthusiastic about working with me. She's done field work on many hominid sites in Europe, has worked closely with some of the most famous Neanderthal material, is associate director and manager of the casting (bone/fossil material) ( Read more... )

Whew. I've just emailed one of the profs at UPenn about being my primary graduate advisor. Yes, I should have done this two months ago. I put it off terribly because I've been stressing about the selection of my advisor (a choice between two rather different profs), and about the wording of the email. Well. It's done and sent, and now I'm ( Read more... )

We're not going to talk about last night. Nope. I'd just like to note that both of my roommates are badly hungover today, and I'm not. Nyah-nyah! :P ( Read more... )

I received a letter from NYU today, and, somewhat to my surprise, they didn't accept me. I find it rather bizarre that the #25 and the #37 colleges in the nation didn't take me, and the #4 college did. But frankly, I'm actually quite relieved that NYU didn't make me an offer, because I was not looking forward to having to make such a difficult ( Read more... )