It's raining right now! It sprinkled for like 30 seconds yesterday, but definitely was showing signs of a storm to come. The storm came today. I woke up early to walk to class instead of biking. I've biked everyday except the first day of orientation and yesterday when I went back after classes for a specialization meeting (after my horrendous bike ride back from the store, there was no way I was getting on my bike again!). I tell you, it's a rough walk when you can bike the same distance in about 7 minutes. To walk it, it takes about 20-25 minutes at a strong pace. It also gets boring really fast...So I'm glad I downloaded some music and a podcast onto my phone to listen to while I walked the distance. It definitely helped. I just didn't want to bike in the rain since I don't have a rain jacket (I need to invest in one), didn't want water splashed on me, and didn't want to deal with a wet bike when I biked back. Course, I ended up getting damp walking back anyway. My head was dry, though! I also wasn't soaked or anything. I have to go for a group project meeting and I might bike if it looks like this part is over or just a heavy sprinkle as it's been for about an hour now. Yesterday's bike trip to the store was rough because I biked back with a heavy load (my groceries) in my backpack, biked up a slight incline the entire way, and had a strong head wind. It was a LOT of pep talking to get myself back to my apartment.
Anyway, classes are going okay. We're into our third full week of classes. It's just basically keeping up with the homework and reading (not doing a great job at that) and attending classes and workshops. I have found that the hardest class (203 - Earth Systems Science) is the hardest class to pay attention in because it tends to be very technical and dry and hard to follow. The most interesting class, personally, I zone out in the most (210 - Business and the Environment). I think it's because a majority of the concepts I already understand and it's not technical or really difficult. I pay attention the most in 201 (Ecology) and it's kind of funny and sad that I do because I consider it the "least important" class of the 3 I'm taking.
I haven't been doing much outside of school. I think it's mostly because I just want to sit back and relax whenever I get a moment! We don't have that many assignments, but I feel like I'm worked constantly and all day and when I can get a free moment from school, I should really take it. People do say the first few quarters are the hardest for the program and it gets better your second year when you can get away from the core classes and take classes you're really interested in. We'll see!
Anyway, just a quick update on things. I need to look at some reading for Corporate Social Responsibility for my group meeting today. We have a presentation on the pros/cons of it next week and we have to create the powerpoint this week. We're doing our group project on AT&T and Sprint-Nextel.
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