First Day + Ask For Help!

So yesterday I accomplished most of what I wanted to...

I didn't get to check my schedule until this morning, but I'll get to that later.

I went to my history lecture in the morning, followed by one of my classes. The lecture was pretty interesting and informative. We covered art and architecture history of the paleolithic and neolithic eras, contrasted against some buildings from the gothic era, and I was also presently surprised that many tribal buildings around the world parallel the types of buildings and Hawaiian culture...

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Yeah, I'm weird and think that sort of thing is fun. (I noticed most others looked like they were about to fall asleep)

During the lecture I sat next to a girl I became friends with, which was also fun. Sadly, we had to part ways and head to our next classes.

My next class, also history, is classroom style, and the teacher just went over guidelines and answered questions and explained how to do homework, which, of course, is good. Afterward I met up with my friend from earlier, along with another guy, and I learned that most of the other teachers had pop quizzes and that sort of thing, so thank goodness I lucked out and got the nice teacher. : )

After that I ate lunch with my new gal pal, we went shopping for school supplies, hung out in her dorm, hung out in my dorm while I folded my laundry ( ^^; ), ate dinner, then hung out a bit more. : )

WE HUNG OUT FOR SIX HOURS. :D

Yaaaay new friend! We click really well and that makes me happy. Unfortunately we only have our lectures together (none of our classes : ( ) but that's alright. My best friend in high school / middle school and I only had a couple of classes together the entire time we knew each other, but it still worked out!

After my friend left I went to dormitory council, which is a lot like a student council, but for the dormitories... I got voted to be an officer, so I'm VERY happy because I really want to get involved during college. : ) Sadly, I don't know if I can keep the position because of the time the afternoon meeting is (it MIGHT overlap with one of my classes...) but hopefully everything will be able to work out in the end. : )

It was very, very eventful for my first day, but I had fun all the same : ) ...

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And back to what I mentioned earlier about my schedule!

I didn't know where to go for English, so I went to see the office. I was extremely nervous and I didn't want to get yelled at for asking a stupid question. Went I walked in I explained that my online schedule and printed schedule put me in different classes, and that on the list posted outside the office I couldn't find my name...

We (the lady who was working in the academic office and I) were talking about what could be the reason, and eventually found out that the first two schedules were mistakes, because my first semester of English is waved so I don't have to take it!

The whole issue took, at tops, 3 minutes to solve. She did tell me "Well no wonder! *shakes head* Girl, I'm gonna BITE you!" when I mentioned I took AP English in high school. But she said it with a sort of smile and laughed it off before explaining to me how the credit is automatically used for my first year's first semester of English (I wanted to use it later so I was gonna save it, but that doesn't work... oh well!). She gave me some advice to just drop by the class I would've been in to get the syllabus from the teacher. She said that would be helpful because then I can know all of the books/essays/films that all my classmates in my major will be learning about so I can keep up with all of them (sometimes the design professors use the same reading material or have related projects, is why).

I followed her advice, the teacher didn't mind me being there, and I had been worried about getting yelled at for nothing! And on top of it all I got some good advice too!

Yes, it's college. But it's important to note that if you don't know something, just ask. I felt like in high school I couldn't ask because teachers would reprimand me for not paying attention, but it's different here. (That fact that it's the first week also helps, I think ; ) )

I learned today that you should go ahead and ask the question that makes you FEEL stupid, rather than not know what's going on and do something that IS stupid.