Hey all-
Early day today - I picked up my ID badge, so now I am official! Then we had the third day of conferences. The talks were mostly sales pitches for different products, so I was not disappointed to end a little early. Lunch there, and then the fun began. Trying to find my car.... I kind of hate college parking! 40 minutes wandering in the drizzle - I almost started praying for manna to fall from the skies, because I was pretty sure I was never going to be able to leave the parking lot!
In talking to the other two students here, I can really see and appreciate differences between their colleges and Meredith. They tell how they seldom see the professor - just grad students. To try to talk to a teacher, you have to make an appt with the grad student that handles his appts, and Phoenix's entry level bio class had 300 students! You had a clicker with your student number that you clicked to mark yourself "present", and she says that some students had 10 clickers at their desks and marked a bunch of people present, and no one knew the difference. What a difference from where I am from! Small classes, and the professors know you and care about you, and you learn from them every day. AND, you can find your car in the parking lot, because there aren't a thousand other cars sitting there! I have to buy a big garish ribbon or something for my antenna-
Anyway- I was going to try to go to the zoo today, but the weather discouraged me. Then I was going to go to the bookstore and the ATM, but I was so frazzled after getting to the car, that I came home to clean up and change out of my wet shoes. So, maybe I will give the bookstore a look on the way to my first ceramics class. Right now, I think I am going to lay down!
More later-
Leslie
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