It was raining this morning. That was certainly exciting. The most amusing part was watching people try and figure out how they could possibly walk to class without melting. I don't have an umbrella myself. In fact, I can't even remember the last time I owned an umbrella. Or a rain coat.

But I made it to the first class of the day intact and unscathed, so I suppose I must be waterproof. However, Calculus II was a bit of a shock to me. I'm not entirely sure if there was a gap between what I learned and where they want me to be, or if I just literally forgot everything over my huge three month summer, but I nearly had a panic attack. There was a warm-up on the board I had very little understanding of, so I believed it to be a preface to the day's lesson. Nope. It was a review. I foresee a lot of self studying, review, and tutoring assistance in my future until I catch up to the class.

Then began the long four hour wait between classes. I plan on using this time for math homework, but seeing as I didn't really get any, I had to spend it with Tristan puttering around the Student Union. I figured out the last bits of credit hours for majoring/doubling/minoring in various things, so we'll see what my adviser has to say later on.

Chinese was again amazingly amusing. My teacher is very antsy, and you wouldn't think him proficient in Mandarin just looking at him, but the TA came in and he just started blasting chinese at her. It was quite impressive. Then came the actual learning of sounds and letters. Romanization of chinese is very difficult to a casual english speaker. It definitely showed in some of the other students attempts at pronunciation. I may or may not have an unfair advantage, having studied chinese briefly before. But that doesn't make it any less funny to watch and listen to.

Getting home wasn't bad, until I discovered that in my time away from the computer my calc teacher assigned homework. It isn't too bad, I just had a few issues with some of the later problems, which will be dealt with tomorrow. I'm tired of looking at numbers. Leaving the computer, I found my roommate Ramesh and Miggy our neighbor sprawled on the floor with tons of silver strings around them. They were trying to restring her guitar, and it wasn't going as planned.

How many honors engineering students does it take to restring a guitar?

Seven, apparently, because that's how many offered input that didn't resolve the problem at all. This is just another thing to be added to the busy list of the weekend. When will we just be able to enjoy the small vacations between weekdays? Oh right, in four years when school is done. For some people. I don't think I'm ever leaving school. This is just too exciting.


Oh, and a informal tally of my classes:
Intro to Engineering - 40 people, 5 girls
Calculus II - 30 people, 5 girls
Chinese - 14 people, 4 girls
Physics - 150+ people, about 1/3 girls.

What is up with this? Seriously, ladies, science is fun.