First Week of University

University...
My first week at Uni...
What could possibly go wrong?

September 4th, 2012
This day was orientation day for all new students. We were split up into faculties and then into tour groups. We went to a bunch of science buildings and I found out where I need to go for labs and lectures. We also went to a few presentations (a faculty of science presentation, a time management presentation (a bunch of groups showed up late for that, oh the irony!) and a small skit play thing (apparently at university parties, you notice all the different flavours of chips there are)

Then there was the opening convocation which was slow.
Got to listen to Craig Kielburger though.
Now the method I use to determine whether a speaker is good or not is by how well they can hold my attention without me trying. When I listen to someone, I don't want to force myself to pay attention (I have a feeling I'll be doing that with my professors at one point or another), they should be able to grab my attention and hold it. Don't get me wrong, he's inspirational, amazing, selfless and all that, he even met Mother Theresa, I mean who gets to do that? But technically by my standards, he wasn't that great of a speaker.

Oh yeah and then there was free food and free swag everywhere and I got awkwardly cornered by a Christian group that wanted to invite me to their BBQ and that got really awkward really fast.

September 5th, 2012
Welp...I showed up late for my 1st University lecture ever (Math 100) by a few minutes and every seat in the house was taken (that's 200) and I had to sit on the stairs (I lost all sense of feeling in my ass). Then after the lecture, there were a bunch of students who lined up to meet the professor (who has a wicked accent by the way) and I immediately thought "kiss-ups" and then I thought "wait, I'm supposed to do that too..."
Math 100 is looking slightly bleak, mainly because I haven't done any math for 2 months and I can't remember a lot of the precalculus skills.
English was kinda reminiscent to high school, mainly because the actual classroom is smaller than every high school classroom I've been in and there were upwards of 40 or so people crammed in there.
Physics was the first class where I actually had to take notes...can't wait for the rest of them...

September 6th, 2012
The great thing about university is you can set your own classes so I didn't need to go to class until 11. Life is good...
In Computer Science (CSC110), my teacher started typing out a bunch of gibberish (well to me it was), it was like he was speaking a whole other language...which he was...and it was Java.
In hindsight, it was a bad idea to scrunch together a bunch of classes with only 10 minutes in between to get to each one because for each class, there is a group of wait listed students who want a piece of the pie and they come in early and hog all the seats so getting good seats is a hit and miss.

The general vibe I'm getting at university is not exactly a comforting one but hey it's only been 2 days. In lectures, I'm alright, apart from the 200+ people sitting in the same room, squeaking in their chairs. But outside of class, it's completely different. Unless you've made a substantial amount of new friends, you feel kinda isolated and alone (or at least I do). Its not exactly easy to make new friends either when every time I turn around, I see a Claremont grad, which is nice to see a familiar face but it also hinders the process of making new friends.
Can't really help but feel that if I HAD chosen UBC, I'd have at least 20 gazillion new friends instead of here where I have made none yet. But again it's only been a few days, I'll start worrying about being antisocial 3 months from now if I still haven't made any new friends

September 7th, 2012
So Math, blah, been there done that, we're moving slower than I thought we would, not that I'm complaining.
English, writing a diagnostic essay, which is basically an essay to diagnose how terminally ill our English skills are after summer.
And that's it
I ended at 12:20
and I do that every Friday for this entire semester
Admit it....you're jelly

Oh yeah and there's these weird washrooms at the Student Union Building (SUB) that are multi-use, genderless washrooms. Basically there are no boys or girls washrooms so its a bit awkward...yeah
My friends decided to go to the washroom together...yeah...