Wow. My first semester of college is over.

This has been a wild 15 weeks. I’ve done pretty well, considering I really had no idea what to expect. I’ve done well in all of my classes, and I have high (?) hopes for my finals next week. I’ve written a large number of papers, probably more than I wrote my entire high school career, which is nice. I can definitely say that I like college a lot more than high school. There is more freedom, but somehow also a lot more structure. At the beginning of the semester, I knew exactly what I had to do and when I had to do it by, and I loved that.

I liked all of my classes this semester. My professors were all totally rad, and just really cool people, who were passionate about their subjects and easy to understand. They were also just interesting people with interesting lives that I liked hearing about. Dr. Boone knew so much about rock music, and I loved hearing him talk about it. Julie Margolis was a huge nerd and so knowledgeable about physical anthropology and I love her. Professor Woodworth was a really cool guy who had a lot of real world experience and interesting takes on the issues we talked about. They were all great.

I’ve had a good time, and I look forward to the next semester.

Woohoo

    My first week at OSU was crazy busy. I am a commuter, so there was a lot of driving back and forth to and from campus, especially throughout Welcome Week. I got a lot of free sunglasses, which is cool. I also got a lot of free cups, which is even cooler. I like the schedule here a lot more than high school because I never have to wake up before 6, and I only have one class a week before 10 am. Also, so far, anyway, I really like all of my classes and professors. The one I am most excited about really getting started with is History of Rock and Roll, which is a class that is right up my alley. I am also excited by my major, City and Regional Planning. I’ve been thinking about this major since I visited campus last summer, and so far, it’s exactly like I expected and I’m totally into it.

    I grew up in Columbus, Ohio, and my old church is pretty much on campus, so I have always been well-acquainted with the area. I feel like, since it only really has been one week, I am not able to anticipate the workload, but, especially for this semester, if I stay organized, I will be pretty okay when it comes to classes. I don’t think so far that the experience has been very different from anything I expected; I have to take the bus everywhere and I have a weird schedule that no one else has and it is a very large campus and there’s a lot of opportunities for extracurriculars and the classes are more in-depth and fast-paced than in high school. I’m still living at home, so there’s not much of a change there, though I got a car over the summer and completely redid my room, and I only finished hanging everything up yesterday. I’m not eating as much as when I’m always at home, but I’m also not eating as regularly, which is less good. Parking has been kind of tricky, but I think I figured it out. I spend a lot of time in the commuter lounge because it’s quiet and there’s usually not a ton of people in there, so it’s a good place to chill between classes and study. 

    All in all, a pretty fine week.

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