As expected or one would expect, it was pretty boring and non-eventful. We did get to sleep in this morning simply because our first class (ESM 201) was canceled since the professor is out of town. So I got to sleep in about an hour this morning :) ESM 203 (Earth System Science for Environmental Management) started at 11 and it was basically an intro lecture. It's supposedly a very hard class (after talking with second year students that is the consensus), but we'll see how it goes. :) The grade thresholds are pretty interesting...A/A- to 85% and B at 70%. I can't even think about a C because anything below a B (B- and beyond) is considered failing according to UCSB's Grad Division (not Bren). Thank goodness B-'s aren't a normal issue for me!
We had a 15 minute break and got to back into the big lecture hall again for the "Bren Town Hall." It was basically a few key people who were there to answer questions for us and give some information about what they think is great about Bren and what we should do to utilize our time here at Bren. We have a half-hour break now (I'm eating lunch and typing this in our student computer room right now) and then we have math camp from 2-5pm. At 5-6pm is the reception for the entire Bren community. To say the least, it's been a LONG day. I guess it's no different if I had class, then a workshop/colloquia, and discussion after that, but that's even a long day (8:30am to 4pm)!
Tomorrow I come home for Chris's birthday. :) I'm excited to see everyone back home (and the kitties and bunny, especially Jasmine!) and I'll especially be thankful for the cooler weather! I think I may have an issue in the cold...Santa Barbara is much hotter than Monterey (it's 77 now and 62 in Monterey), but it's not SUPER hot either. I am going to have to suck it up and wear more shorts and lighter clothes, though. A bunch of us sat outside in the sun after class for no more than 15 minutes and then went back inside for the Town Hall. I could FEEL myself cooling off in the room. I toasted! I am darker, for sure, but it's not bad. I try to sit in the shade as much as possible (thank goodness Bren's courtyard has lots of trees planted in the middle with benches), but I can't do a whole lot for the fact I bike from one end of campus to the other twice a day. Not to mention my short trips into town to buy stuff (half hour round trip). *shrugs* I must admit it's kind of a novelty to see a blue sky almost everyday...I don't think I've gotten used to it yet and I've been here for 2 weeks now. :) We did have one day of fog (all day) and a few days of it being overcast in the morning, though.
Anyway, I need to go. Gotta go to math camp now. :)
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