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Well I'm all moved into my dorm and have been here for a day. I'm mostly enjoying it. My roommate is pretty awesome so far, and I've met a good amount of people through stupid orientation games and actually talked to a few. I miss home a little now, but it hasn't entirely sunk in yet that I'm here for months and not just for the weekend. I met my adviser/professor of my first year course and he seems very nice and like he'll be a good lecturer. And most of the people in my first year class are pretty cool. Oh, and I have my schedule for sure now!

PHYS 113 Modern Astronomy MWF 12:00-1:00
PSYC 100 Introduction to Psychology MWF 9:40-10:40
PSYC 100 Psych Lab T 1:00-2:30
WGSS 194 Technologies for Representing Gender MWF 10:50-11:50
GEOL 155 History/Evolution of the Earth TR 9:00-11:30

I'm pretty happy with it. I mean, it's exactly what I've expected it would be for months, so no surprises. Thursdays are going to be awesome with only the one class in the morning. And I'm happy that my MWF are in a block so I don't just have like... 40 minutes to do basically nothing.

Anyways, I'm still planning on doing a huge post with pictures of my trip here but they've been piling on the activities, so I don't know when it'll be. It's 2:50 now and I have this thing at 3:30-5:00 which is like... it's called Faces of Mac Community and it's students talking about the multicultural community and such. I might not go to that, actually. Then at 5:00ish I'm having dinner with my parents, which is probably the last time I'll see them until October since they're leaving tomorrow early in the morning.

There's a Casino Night tonight (sadly lacking Jim Halpert, though) that I probably won't go to because I suck at those sorts of games. Plus, my roommate's going to a Counting Crows concert with her cousin so I'll have the room to myself, which will be kind of nice (even though I do really like her, I'm really not used to sharing a room).

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[singingrl.livejournal.com]

Those first few days at college can make you a litle homesick. My best advice would to be join a few on-campus clubs that really interest you and try to talk to anyone sitting next to you in class. It might seem daunting at first, but most of your peers feel the same way you do inside and would be happy to have someone initiate a conversation :) Also, try to go to as many non-lame sounding events as possible those first few weeks. Afterward, you'll find your core group of friends and being homesick will be a distant memory. Good luck with everything!

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Thanks a lot for the advice. My school has a college club fair sort of thing, but unfortunately it's not until Saturday I think, so I have a little while before I can join any clubs. But I'll definitely plan on doing that. I think it will get better when classes start, but classes don't start till Wednesday. It was a little worse yesterday since my roommate was gone pretty much all day, but she's here today and we've talked some, which was good. I'm sure things will be a lot better in a few weeks.

Anyways, thanks again! I appreciate it.