The Past Month

Okay, so it's been about a month since I last updated this blog, as a couple people have astutely pointed out to me. I apologize for the lack of updates, I've just been busy trying to get a foothold here, both socially and academically, so blogging has been fairly low on my priorities list.

I'm only taking three classes this semester, for a variety of a reasons. Mostly, I was vying for a Social Psychology course and by the time the professor got back to me on whether I was in it, or not, I wasn't interested in any of the other class that fit into my schedule. It works out fairly well though because it means my workload isn't insanely heavy and I won't spend my first semester here being a giant ball of stress.

Currently, my classes are as follows: Ancient Political Thought, Latin, and intro to programming with Python. The workload has just now started getting heavy enough to really be stressful, but with a bit of effort I ought to be able to keep up. Ancient Political Thought is probably the class I have the hardest time with because it touches on two subject I don't much care for: philosophy and politics. I've determined that the reason I don't like philosophy is that I'm inclined towards philosophical thought myself and find a 50+ page dialog defining justice rather irritating when I've already come up with my own personal definition of justice that suits me fine. I'd rather have a philosophy class that asked me to define justice rather than a politics class that forces me to read the definition someone else came up with 2000+ years ago.

Politics, on the other hand, isn't so annoying in itself as it is when people talk about it. I could go on and on about the things that annoy me about political science and politics in general (without mentioning a single candidate or politician, I might add), but I won't because that's not the point of this blog.

Apart from classes, it's been an interesting month. People here are pretty interesting, though to be honest it's pretty much the same demographic that was present in my high school. I haven't made any really meaningful social connections quite yet, but I have met plenty of people and by now a good percentage of people on campus know my name.

It's turning out to be a very beautiful Fall up here. It hasn't been terribly wet and rainy, so I've been able to enjoy mild weather and the changing of the leaves, which is starting to be fairly spectacular. I took a bunch of pictures the first couple of weeks I was here, but has neglected moving them to my computer due to some computer troubles that have yet to be fully dealt with. I'll try to post pictures within the next couple of posts, which will be within the next couple of weeks as opposed to month.

Anyways, that's all I've got for now. Be back soon.