School starts once more and it has been going so well! For the first time in my entire college career I don't have an eight o clock class (at least for A quad) and unlike last semester which was four class on Monday, Wednesday, Friday I only have one! My first class was Medieval/Byzantine Art History With our new art historian in the first five minutes of class took a flying leap over a table. He was trying to illustrate how important medieval art history was to our day to day lives. It was definitely a good way to begin the semester. I went and checked my CPO box and found that I had five pac slips (yes, they were for textbooks, but still! I got packages!) retrieved my books and heading out for food. At lunch I ran into every single one of my friends that had been studying abroad or at least studying elsewhere along with a good percentage of my other good friends. It was awesome! It was so good to see people I had missed for a semester, or even people I missed just over break. I went into Saga with nobody to eat with and ended up with three different saga dates. It made me smile. Really the only low point in my first day was chorale. It was not fun to go back to music I didn't like without my chorale buddy who was a big reason I made it through last semester.
Day two of classes (which almost still counts as day one at college since we rotate which classes we take on MWF and TR) was also a lot of fun. I was a little apprehensive going into my Chicago class (it's what it sounds like: a class about Chicago) as I am not able to fit Wheaton in Chicago into my schedule, but there was a good spread of people there, including several others like me who just like Chicago and want to learn more about it. My teacher had us go around the room and say what year we were and what major we are and we tallied it up on the board. I would say there are about 30 people in the class (and there were several who weren't there the first day) and we had over 20 majors in the class. I was really impressed. It's very cool to be in an environment that is that diverse and varied. Next I had psychology 101. I think this is going to be a really fun class. The prof teaching it is really entertaining and obviously knows what he is doing. Finally I had my first Photo 1 class! This was a class I was a little apprehensive about because I took Digital Photography last semester and I learned a lot, but I felt the relationship between my prof and I had ended a little strangely. The first Photo 1 class was at the same time familiar and different in good ways. My biggest complaint about Digital had been that all that we talked about what the technical aspects of the camera equipment and the computer software we had been using. Already the readings we had for this class have covered content of what you are taking pictures of. I have high hopes for this class. :)
All in all this semester is off to a really good start and I am optimistic for the rest of it.
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