Week One

So I've been in class all day. And studied all day yesterday (even while I was hanging out with everyone in my room). In all, the studying amounted to sixteen hours until some idiot pulled the fire alarm at 12:40 am and we all had to take to the hills. Poor Jordana (my roomie) was in the shower. I hiked with Lukas over to Josh's in Bullock and what a pain. James and Dan AND Jon and Matt weren't in their rooms! WTF is THAT!?!?

Anyhow, the classes are amazing. US History Since 1865 with Professor Amy Richter. I went to talk to her during office hours yesterday and it was great! I took 6 pages of notes back and front on Reconstruction today. The reading is intense but great. After that, I headed off to Tzila Bitcharone's class. Went to lunch, went to go pick up Bitcharone's book and she wasn't there when she said she'd be so I had to wake up early from my nap and go fetch. Ugh. Well, at least it ended up being somewhat productive because I finished the homework and talked to her about studying abroad in Israel and setting up the program through Clark for Junior year so that I could benefit from the fifth year program and not have to deal with a separate graduate school (assuming I have over a 3.25, which hopefully I will).

Then I went to Napier's class. He wasn't high today! I don't know if that was disappointing or not. But the lecture was great anyway. I'm on the first student led panel discussion on this book called Eva's Man for the class. Apparently, it's about a woman who goes to jail for biting off her husband's penis. I told a few of you about this already. But WOW. Anyhow, we're reading Oreo now and it's great! It's about a girl, half Jewish, half black and black-Jewish relations in America etc etc. Riddled with Yiddush and black slang. It's great, satirical and laugh-out-loud funny.

And Freud's in a bit. I finally finished most of my reading for tomorrow. Just a bit left for Art History (Baroque) and I think I'll call my family in the meantime. *Yawns*