August 31, 2010
Hello again readers!
Welcome to my second blog post! I
apologize if this is kind of boring, but I am still kind of getting in the
swing of things at school and figuring out what to blog about, so please bear
with me.
This week has been much less chaotic than last week. I feel like things are settling down a lot
and I am starting to get back into school mode.
I kind of forgot about the whole homework thing though, so I ended up
staying up way too late the past two nights working on homework at the last
minute, so I highly recommend doing homework ahead of time and trying not to
procrastinate which is something almost everyone I know struggles with, but
that’s going to be one of my scholastic goals this year- to stop
procrastinating, so wish me luck with that!
Yesterday was a pretty good day. I finished a paper two hours before it was
due (I’m terrible.. I know) and I got to hang out with my friend Brittney for a
little while between classes and we had subs and coffee (both were delicious by
the way!) at the SubConnection/CyberCafe in the Student Center. It was nice to just kind of catch each other
up on our summers and boy problems and how our classes are going and
everything. It was really great :) I’ve missed her a lot. She lived on my floor in Fitzpatrick Hall my
Freshman year and we were friends immediately after meeting in the first month
of school during a black out, but she started commuting last year, so I don’t
get to see her as much as I’d like. I definitely
think living on campus is very important to getting the full college experience
and make a lot of great friends. I
really loved living in Fitzpatrick since it is an all Freshmen dormitory and my
floor was all girls, so I got the chance to meet so many other Freshman girls
who also probably didn’t know anyone at the school yet. This year, I am living in Siena which is
amazing so far. I have some really
wonderful roommates and there are a lot of really sweet people who live in this
building that I am really happy to be friends with.
In my American Literature class, we started reading The Great Gatsby last week which is one
of my favorite books and it’s a fairly easy read, so if you haven’t read it
yet, I highly recommend that you do! I
was really surprised by some of the insights the teacher and my classmates
brought up about the book too. This is
probably the third class I have been in where we’ve studied The Great Gatsby, and it astonishes me
that I haven’t gotten sick of it yet, but it seems like there is always
something new to learn every time I read or discuss it and I notice something I
never really recognized before.
I actually really like all of my classes so far this
semester. I am really excited for all of
the things I am going to learn! My
schedule is a really well-rounded mix too I think. I am taking an English class, Art History,
Philosophy of Good and Evil, Early Christian Writings, and I start a Women in
Crime class in October that I am really interested in seeing what that is like,
because I haven’t taken any kind of Criminal Justice class. I am just kind of trying everything right now
though and hoping something just clicks, so I can pick a major since everyone
always tells me how ridiculous I am for not having one yet haha.
Today was a pretty good day as well except I was exhausted
from staying up late which is my own fault I know… I had classes from 8am until
2pm and probably had three coffees total in that time and I will probably get
more coffee at dinner tonight too or maybe treat myself to a yummy white mocha
latte later in the Griff if I’m feeling some serious self love tonight :-)
There were some really interesting discussions in all of my classes today
though which is very surprising especially for me since I generally prefer
lecture classes, because I do not like to talk much in class and I love taking
notes more than I probably should, but we learned some
really interesting things about art and tools in the stone age in Art History
today and we even got to look at and hold some of the actual tools used by cave
men. It was very fascinating. And I was really excited for our discussion
in Theology class, because we were talking about the earliest Christian writers
which includes Saint Ignatius of Antioch who happens to be the patron of the
church I grew up in, so I felt a really personal connection with the topic and
was simply thrilled to be learning about his life and his teachings and
writings. After my classes, I ordered
some text books off Ohio Link which is a really neat program where we are able
to check out books from other libraries in Ohio and they are sent to our school
for free. I was really happy I was able
to find most of mine on there, so I don’t have to buy all my books this
semester which makes my bank account very happy :-D
I also took some time today just to walk around and enjoy
the sunshine and the campus. And I
highly recommend that anyone on campus does the same, because it is such a
lovely and peaceful little campus to stroll about on :-)
