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[	Current Location	|	my dorm room	]
[	mood	|	pensive	]
[	music	|	Fans	]

WOW. A lot has happened since my last post. I got glasses. They work wonderfully, but I avoid using them unless I need to.  I don't want to grow more dependent on them, they make my eyes feel tired, or lazy, i can't tell which, and yeah that's about it. 

After that I was still at home for a bit.

I've now moved into my dorm for college. I begin the next chapter of my life here at the University of Michigan.  It is disconcerting, exciting, terrifying, amazing, and any number of other adjectives to be going to College. With a capital C.  Moving in was a whirlwind.  We brought up our stuff, stuffed our room full of it, arranged and organized and shifted it.  The whole time I was partially in awe of the fact that I was really going to be living not at my house for a while.  That night Harrison and I walked around the floor and met lots of people. we ended up talking with an RA on the other side of the building from us along with a couple of her residents.  That was very very fun, and I'm so glad we met that RA, Alyssa, and her friend, another RA, Alexandra.  We actually talked with some people and learned some things, and became familiar, if not best-of-friends with those RAs, good people to know for many reasons.  So that was day one.

Day two consisted of.... touring around looking at buildings where classes are, riding my bike around, picking up football tickets, good stuff like that. We met up with a couple of Harrison's friends to hang out with. We went to freshman convocation, which is sort of a welcoming ceremony to the University that says "congratulations, you're all very good students for making it in here. you'll all do great, michigan is great."  we went to artscapade and escapade which were interesting, and crowded.  They basically had lots of advertising for clubs and things, giving away free stuff from businesses, etc. It was pretty fun.

Ok.  This is a continuation of a post I started a few days ago. 

Classes started on Tuesday here at the university of Michigan.  I like my classes so far, and the vast majority of my professors and GSIs. My psych professor and gsi seem unimpressive so far. 

My classes are: Chem 210, 211 (Orgo 1, Orgo 1 lab), Great Books 191, Psych 111, Spanish 276, and a minicourse on cancer (only one credit, minimal homework. Just some reading)  That’s a total of 17 credits.  Great books and Spanish I expect to be primarily different levels of the same sort of thing, writing essays about stuff we read.  In Spanish it sounds like we’ll be reading lots of short stories about which we’ll talk or write papers.  Great books the professor is very knowledgeable, and it sounds like the papers could be lots of “fun” intellectual fun… that is to write.  We’re currently reading the Iliad. I like it for what it is, I don’t claim that I looove it, but I have no major qualms with it, and overall like it.  Spanish our class is small (23 kids), at least some of them I like, our professor is fluent in English and Spanish, I can understand him while he’s blathering on in Spanish, which is good.  Orgo discussion today was daunting, but I think that is primarily due to the fact that I haven’t had chem. Since junior year… I studied some, read the book, did problems tonight, and I now feel vastly more confident and such. 

I feel like guilt, obsession, and confliction are strong players in emotion here at the university, at least in mine.  I feel guilt for not going and reading one of my many books I could, I also feel guilt for not exercising(which I’ve actually done a fair bit of), I feel guilt for not hanging out with people, or for not making more of an effort to go eat with more people… etc.  But that guilt about mutually exclusive (sorta, at the same time at least) things leads to the confliction. I still feel sorta weird walking down the hall and saying heeey I’m gonna come hang out in your room.  Hrm.

I am happy, though.  On the whole I have met many people, re-met some people, my classes interest me, my room is awesome, my hall is in a good location, my schedule is nice, my bike is convenient.  Life is good.

Today was festifall, and I found at least one group that looks interesting. It’s called neurokids, about outreach to 4^th-5^th graders teaching about the brain.  I figure I’ll like that, and also could point me toward other things I may like… yesterday I also went to the waterski club mass meeting, but I’m leaning away from doing it. It’s expensive, and time consuming. Maybe next year, but not this year…

Um so yeah, I really like it here, my glasses are very useful in lecture. Mmk. I’m gonna get to sleep now. ‘night

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more,
From these our interviews, in which I steal
From all I may be, or have been before,
To mingle with the Universe, and feel
What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal.

     -- Lord Byron

I really like this poem. I like both the style and strongly associate with the... message? of the poem. 
(there's probably some awesome word for "the stuff that the poem is saying the whole time through"
 that I don't know, if you do, substitute it in for message back there <--)