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(d/dt) [6 courses + 3 labs + no hot guys in classes = 1 long semester]

So school started up on Wednesday, as we are all too aware. Since it would take me forever to recap everything that happened, I decided to include the primary highlights (in bulleted form, for your reading convenience):

• Day 1: Got lost. Interpreted "T BW" as "Tory Basement West" when in fact it stands for "Tory Breezeway". Late for first class by 10 minutes. Arrived at second class on time, only to find single seat availability since apparently all other 99 people show up for that class early. Nearly had panic attack of epic proportions when prof announced there would be no review of prerequisite courses, and in addition, expected us to apply all techniques learned in these aforementioned courses "quickly and ruthlessly" otherwise we would have "immense difficulty" in the course. Moment of unexpected happiness at finding that my lock had not in fact been cut after failing to remove it from locker last year. Waited around for 2 hours. Arrived at third class. Nearly fell asleep while prof recited course notes verbatim. Went home.
  
• Day 2: Arrived at 8 AM lecture. Moment of unexpected happiness when class ended 10 minutes early. Arrived at second lecture. Took an instant dislike to format of notes. Arrived at third class. Nearly fell asleep while prof recited course notes verbatim. Decided to try be proactive and find out what was coming ahead in other courses. Was almost on the verge of tears when reading requirements for EE 340 lab. Went home.
  
• Day 3: Paid $18 (a complete ripoff) for EE 340 lab kit. Nearly ran into random guy. Hung out with some of you non-geers for a while (!). Went back for third class. Found it to be the identical to the first lecture of EE 280 (prerequisite course) <--(not that I'm complaining though! I needed the review, lol). Went home at 2:00 (Yay!).

So course-wise, that was basically it. I decided to be kind and omit the parts about people in my courses since I know you probably won't want to hear my litany of complaints about that. Seriously speaking though, I think material-wise hopefully it'll be a lot more interesting this year. I like learning how this stuff relates to practical situations, like in my power course, and even though our EE 340 lab consists of 2 mini-design projects, I think that will help me in understanding things in the long run. Or, if anything, I'll learn how much work a real project entails. So far, I really like my profs too. I'll have to wait to pass judgement on the guy who read the notes verbatim on the second day (the prof who did that on the first day stopped yesterday when we started reviewing the prerequisite course's material thankfully). Anyway that was about it. I hope all of you had a great first week, and I hope the next goes even better.