so um yeah. it's been a while. i sorta let this thing go. wow- side note, did you known that "sorta" is not red-underlined for being spelled wrong? the computer actually thinks it's a word - neat. sorta. anyways so i have been planning on doing the whole blog thing for a while now, and just now got around to it. so the goal is going to be an update once a week on general life - some of it may be categorized by either the class it pertains to or "social" as i refer to all my non-existant social activities. for this first one, i figure i should give a little something for everything. just note that the classes are listed in the order i go to them through the week, so it makes sense in my head for them to be in this order, even if it makes no sense to you people in reader's land.

physics - his name is Dr. olzwaski or something like that. from boston with a very thick accent. definitely a tenured prof. because i would imagine they wouldn't let him teach otherwise. he's fairly crazy, and has turned the physics class into more of a philosophy class. paraphrase: ~north is only north because we made it that way. once we define north we automatically define south, but east and west could still be different. just because east is on the right for just doesn't mean it couldn't be on the left. if we lived below the earth then east would be to the left and the whole world would be backwards to us.~ crazy. i've taken about 3 pages of notes total so far. not what i would call productive. i typed in bat-shit crazy in google and this caught my eye to describe him.

english - this class could possibly be the end of me. she wants me to write "zero draft" papers about nothing. she says she wants them to be shit, but then grades us on them. i do not find her methods of teaching that useful for me personally. she does not believe in outlines for papers, she'd rather type it all out with the monitor turned off and then print that and cut up the different parts and piece it together. yeah, not working for me. she also had this crazy notion that over labor day weekend we would all go "off the grid" for 24 hours. no tv, no internet, no phones. total BS.

physics LAB - so it's taught by the same guy as in lecture. aana, sydney and i thought this would be a good idea so that there was a cohesive train of thought between the two. that idea failed.

chemistry - by far my most difficult class. there are numerous things that i have to memorize and be able to recite off the top of my head. on the plus side, prof. Varadarajan seems to be a really really good professor, so it might not be too bad. just incredibly difficult. much more than i was expecting since i came out of general chem like it was nothing. this class could be my first truly difficult college class. side note - his picture comes up on google images.

calculus - dull and boring. nothing much to complain about, just the idiots in the class. 100 on first quiz without trying. it is of no great loss when i miss class.

bioethics - could be really fun. if it was actually bioethics. first day of class she decided to inform us that she doesn't go by the course listing, she'd prefer to call it "health care ethics". now, everyone that i have talked to thus far in that class - which is an honors section, so i known almost everyone in there - would not have taken the class if it was called "health care ethics". this is the first problem. the next is that she tends to encourage us to talk in class and give our ideas. but when we do that she then takes what we say and twists them into the point that she was really trying to make. by the time she's man-handled your thought, it is unrecognizable. so although the class seems very simple and straight forward, the prof. maybe the biggest obstacle in the class.

chemistry LAB - my TA is a douche bag and my lab partner is a pot-head. end of story.

"Social" - best decision so far? bring the pool balls. totally worth it and loads of fun to take whoever is around downstairs to the billiard tables. it has been a true success. and i don't even need my cue stick, because they have ones there already - i figured you'd have to "rent" those too. 2nd best thing. N64. it has been a monumental success with everyone this far investing games into it. it's amazing to me in the age of xbox 360, PS3 and Wii, that the N64 is getting the most play time. i'd say the suite life is working out very nicely. i'm getting to cook all sorts of things i never tried before, nad it has been greeted with moderate success. i'm in the market now for a new cookbook, seeing as the only one i have is a vietnamese one. i've definitely made a few things that i will be trying to make a home some time.

it looks like that's all i can muster up right now. um... i'll say a week for the next update - i can't imagine it being as long as this one - but whatever. week...2 weeks. it'll happen eventually. until then.