First Impressions

First couple days at the U and I've already had a handful of experiences!

First move-in day Aug 19,2010 and the power goes out… no ac for the entire weekend. The next day my cellphone falls down the elevator shaft and I have to wait half an hour to get it back. (Luckily in one piece) Sat. went to visit the family because my brother was turning 12, and peeled some skin off in a volleyball game. Then Sunday morning the fire alarm wakes me up at 7am in the morning. Apparently somebody tried to hang their clothes on the water sprinkler on the ceiling…not the brightest idea. Therefore a handful of rooms were drenched in water and several students now have to live in the U of U guest hotel for a couple days.

Today was less chaotic…. Thankfully. My writing teacher was direct and to the point, and I can tell I’m going to enjoy her class. If only I didn’t have to take writing at 7:30am in the morning…ugh

My math 1050 teacher was hilarious! I couldn’t stop laughing and all we did was go over the syllabus! He kinda reminded me of Jim Carrey. I liked that he was directly honest. In a class of 200+ students he assured us that he was not going to take roll. Attendee, Homework, and Participation are all optional, but quizzes, tests, exams are a major factor for our grade.

Leap was okay…if I wasn’t dying of laughter in my previous class I probably would have laughed more at the Leap jokes. We played this prisoner game to see which partner would confess. I was kinda lost at first but soon caught on. The lesson was its hard to cooperate with someone unless you trust them.

My last class of today was biology. He was also hilarious, but not as funny as math. I like how my biology teacher used visual presentations as life lessons.
-For example, take a person who can and can’t juggle. The one who can’t can learn the necessary steps to juggle by memorizing it, but still wouldn’t be able to juggle. Now if one practiced then it is possible to be as good as the one that can.
-Example 2, my biology teacher said he could give us our college diploma right then and there, but hoped that we would not take it. A college diploma certificate is only a piece of paper, and it represents the knowledge we have acquired over our college career. Accepting it now would mean nothing.

All in all good first impressions now all I have to do is get my scholarship money from LIA into my UCCU account and then I can purchase my books…until then I’m going to have to wing it this week