I had a very fun weekend with friends and then shifted focus right into school yesterday. My first class was at 6pm so I had most of the day free. Well, not really free. My laptop decided to stop letting me log in on Sunday night after I tried to download some software updates. So I took it to the wonderful Geniuses at the Apple store and they were miraculously able to revive it and I got them to just wipe it and re-install the whole OSX since I wanted to start fresh (and all my files were already on my iMac). So I spent most of my day yesterday getting my "technology" set up - fixing the computer, buying ink for my printer (SO expensive!), installing new software, downloading software updates...oh, and doing homework for the classes that I hadn't even started.

My class last night was Financial Analysis. Sounds exciting, eh? It wasn't too bad. The class is SUPER crowded but I don't think it'll be too hard as long as I stay on top of it. We already have a group project due on Monday and so we had to split into our groups last night. My group is quite a display of the international. There are five of us, all female, the other four girls are from India, China, Taiwan and South Korea. Some have been in the US or Canada for a while but others are just "off the boat".  It'll be very interesting to see how we all work together. 

My other adventure has been using the trolley to get to and from school. Revelation #1: It is hot in San Diego in early September. Revelation #2: It gets hotter when you have to climb about 100 stairs while wearing a 25 lb. backpack between your apartment and school. Last night, I made the mistake of wearing jeans and a sweater - thinking that it was about 5:30pm so it should be cooling down. Well, I should have repeated that to myself while I was fanning off the sweat that pretty much drenched my body in the bathroom across the hall from class so everyone wouldn't immediately sit in the desk farthest away from me. This morning I was a bit smarter and opted for shorts, a tank top and flip flops. It still felt a little like I was wearing one of those foil sweat suits at the station this morning but it cooled off a lot faster once I got here. I am really liking taking the trolley even with all the sweating. It is so easy and only takes about 10-15 minutes to get from my apartment to SDSU.  It is especially nice when I overhear other students complaining about how horrendous parking is.

Getting to class this morning was also quite an adventure. I walked over to the business building where the class was scheduled to be only to find a sign that says it has been moved to the other side of campus - right by the trolley station that I just walked from. I made a friend while trying to find the dungeon classroom that the sign said it was in only to find out that it was the wrong class. Goodbye friend!

I sat outside the building for a while, since I was actually there pretty early, and cooled off. At 8:30, I walked down and realized the previously-discovered wrong class was still in session, I hussled back to the business building to find that class had already started and I was the idiot that was walking through the middle of lecture. Apparently there was a class the night before that was the same course number which had been moved to the other room and the sign had not been taken down. So much for getting to class early! Guess I got my morning exercise. 

So after my amazing entrance, I had my Statistics and Economics class in the same room back to back. I have one more class that only meets on Mondays so I haven't had it yet but I really like my professors so far. All men and relatively young and very interested in what they are teaching, which is always a good thing. My classes have a lot of the same people in them so I'm sure I'll get to know my classmates pretty well. There are a surprising number of international students - probably 15 in my class of 40 - mostly from India, Japan and China. 

We got out a bit early today so I'm taking a bit of a break from reading textbooks to write this. I meet with my Finance group this afternoon so I figure I can get a bit of studying done while I am on campus. 

Tomorrow I am back to work for my one day a week gig. It's been surprising easy to almost completely turn off that part of my brain and transfer over to being a student again. I thought I would be a lot more attached and interested on what was going on while I was gone from work. Guess not! 

This weekend my friends and I are taking a quick trip to Las Vegas for my friend's birthday. Should be fun and I promise to have all my homework done beforehand! :) 

Anyway, I should get to that studying and reading now. 

Signing out -

The Reincarnated Aztec