added value

okay, just back from my first day of classes ... and i am happy to report that there is an aspect of school that i kinda forgot about.

there was this phenomenon at Boston University, let's call it "the awakening", that happened every spring on the first warm, sunny day of the season. the phenomenon was ... people. all of a sudden, the campus would be swarmed with five times as many students walking around campus - chillin' on lawns, playing frisbee, talking to friends, etc.

where the hell had they been? where did everyone come from? did cloning get developed and no one told me about it (because it would be really great to have extra 'me's to go to class for me)?

what's more ... short skirts and tank tops. it was like Comm Ave. became a fashion show and there were no shortage of attractive people to walk the runway. lots and lots of attractive, mobile hormones. it was sublime.

today ... was a little like that. swarms of young, attractive people milling about campus, strutting their hormones around, bearing their genes for the opposite sex (or same sex, whatever). and i was there with them. glorious, glorious day.

that is, of course, 'til the reality of just how much work i'm going to be doing set in. oh deary me, what did i get myself into?

ugh. and yea!

first contact

i just got home from my first contact with many of the people in my new school program. the professors and the second year students pulled together a potluck get-together. i'm really glad i made it back in time to go to this. it was a treat to meet other students in my program (there are 11 total) and to meet and get advice from 2nd years and recent graduates. it was also good to do this with food and booze.

i'm much more excited now for the semester. everyone i met seems like 'good people' and it looks like we'll have some fun together. and i feel like i learned a lot more about the program tonight which is helpful.

classes start on thursday. it's going to be great to be in a formal learning structure again. remind me of this when exam time comes.