Life and school

Life and school

Just an update on life in general around these parts.

I am enjoying living so close to my campus. I feel so much more plugged in and involved in the university community now. I've met so many new people and gotten to know others that I knew in the past few years so much better. Makes me feel more at home here.

My living situation is at least tolerable. Love the apartment complex I'm in. The manager is kinda rude sometimes, but he has so many responsibilities around campus, I'd be grumpy too. The girl on my side of the apartment is wonderful! Love her. The other two... they are different. Everyone has their quirks, these just seem to have more than average. They're not so bad when they're sipping on their Irish Coffee though. haha. They really are sweet, just shy and home bodies.

School is in full swing now. I've got a ton of homework which I am currently putting off as long as possible. The only class I'm really worried about is chemistry. One of the assignments I have this weekend is on significant figures. I didn't understand those in high school and still don't get it. Unfortunately, my professor is the self-proclaimed "sig fig police" so I've got to get this. I spent probably 30 minutes last night trying to get the problems right and I still have yet to complete the 16 problems correctly. The homework we have is really cool; it's on this software that we put on our personal computers. We do the problems as many times as we like and then we e-mail them to our professor. Me being a perfectionist will not e-mail them until I have a 100 on every assignment. Oh, the woes of perfectionism. *sigh*

Kinesiology-- the only class in my major I'm taking this semester-- is going to be challenging but a joy to learn I think. Besides that, I'm actually going to use what I learn in that class when I FINALLY become a physical therapist. The whole class-- as far as I can tell-- is about how to analyze human motion for errors and then understanding the principles behind the motion to fix the errors. Like I said, challenging due to the amount of physics involved since I never really got physics either, but very interesting, so I'll probably WANT to study for this one. :-)

My Spanish class is fun. Mostly because since I spent my summer in Spain, I don't mind that the professor speaks mostly in Spanish and expects us to do the same. That would have scared me to death this time last year. She even asked if I'd help her and the other Spanish professor grade first year Spanish papers! I feel so honored that these people that know their Spanish so well feel like I know it well enough to critique my fellow students' work. 

My child and adolescent psychology class is going to prove rather interesting, I dare say. We haven't really gotten past the base theories yet, but will this week and I'm really excited. I've started reading ahead in the text and it sounds great. It's a really big class, but I think the professor at least recognizes me; he saw me parking my bike this week and started talking to me about biking. 

Speaking of biking, I'm riding my bike around campus this year to save on gas and to give myself some sexy legs. I think I've started a revolution; the first week of class I saw maybe one other cyclist on campus, but this past week the racks were almost crowded. Yes, I am a revolutionary! I'm always look for a way to challenge conventional thinking. That's why I often don't sit in the same seat class. Always fun to see people get annoyed and puzzle out why their seat is taken and what to do about it. Especially in large classes. 

Well, I think I've babbled enough. I'll go on and on about how tennis is going later as I have too much to say and you cannot bear it now. lol.