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October 1-3

There was a huge problem with my classes.

1) 1. I didn’t get into the two BCS electives that I wanted.

2) 2. Physics got cancelled

What am I supposed to do? I only came here because they offered Physics. If Rochester won’t accept this other class that I’m in as Physics then I pretty much have to take 113 and 114 my senior year or during the summer and that is going to ruin my life and maybe future plans.

Everything here is so disorganized. I changed rooms the first day I moved in and when they gave me the key, the girl did not change my tenancy agreement and so they thought I still lived in my old room. Because move in day was when we were in Spain, they moved all of Susana’s stuff to her old room as well and another random girl in her room. Luckily, my room they remembered that they moved me so they moved the girl that’s supposed to be in my room into my old room (if that even makes sense). I’m just a bit sad that nothing worked out here in terms of classes. If I knew this was going to happen, I would have never studied at this school in the first place.

The courses I’m taking are: Principles of Neurobiology, Reading Faces, Data Acquisition and Analysis (“Physics lab” hopefully), and Kinematics & Dynamics (This will be my Physics 113 if our Physics department is nice enough).

Hopefully everything will be resolved soon!

Now onto the good news: I got into the badminton club team. Yeah, weird right? Never would I have imagined that happening. They have 12 spots each year for girls and this year I think they were accepting three more. There were these two girls who were amazing; they played badminton for the county. I, on the other hand, lost every single game I played that day during “tryouts” (which I had no idea at the time). It just happened that they needed a 12^th member and everyone else wasn’t as good so I got the spot. I start training on Monday and going to games with them (I hope I’m not playing though). It’s a bit embarrassing to play in front of them because they are ten times better than me and it’s very noticeable. Hopefully with the training I’ll get better and we’ll see what happens!

Another club I tried was trampolining. It was so much different than I thought! The trampolines are Olympic size and a lot bouncier and easier to lose your balance than the round ones everyone played on when they were little. I learned how to keep my body and legs straight when jumping and move my arms up and down. It was so much fun! Hopefully if I continue I’ll be able to do a flip and make it look professional haha.

Autumn term week 1

I only have 1 class a day and no class on Wednesdays for this week. It’s a bit weird because the schedule changes from week to week so there is a timetable where you can keep track of everything.

The physics problem got sorted out. I just have to take the 113 final at the end of this semester and if I pass then the credit will transfer as 113 if I don’t pass it’ll be 100. It was a bit hard to remember everything I learned from high school because she went through the beginning chapters so fast, I was lost already haha. My class is pretty much all “freshers” so they just finished taking physics. I guess I gotta read the textbook and do a little refreshing.

Reading Faces is exactly like BCS. The teacher is my advisor and she’s really nice. We learned processing of faces today which was really interesting because she went a lot more in depth than what I have learned in Rochester. Hopefully we’ll move on to more psychology things as well so I can read emotions on people’s faces, like Lie to Me haha.

I went to poker club with a friend on Tuesday not knowing that it was a tournament. I knew I was going to lose, but hey, 5 pounds for entertainment. There were a little more than 50 people sitting at 8 tables. At first it was a bit intimidating because I didn’t even know what chips were what and how to deal. After I got the hang of it, I won 2 hands. It sucks because I never got an amazing hand. I won with the most random hands that I should’ve folded. The strategy for poker tournaments vs. games is so different! It was hard to grasp when to fold or not because your chips were limited and you can’t cash out. I was never up in chips, just always had what I started with. I think I played a little on the safe side, but I got to the final 12 and lost haha. Now that I think of it, it was such a rush. I can’t believe the school lets people gamble, US would have major problems with that. Maybe I’ll try it again, but I feel like I’m just throwing 5 pounds away because there’s no way I can win.

Show choir was interesting. I’ve never been in a singing club/group in my life so I’ve never actually sung a scale or warm up my voice. I placed myself in alto, but I feel like I’m right in between. It sucks though because I can’t harmonize, sooo hard! And that’s like all altos do. It’s funny because before this I didn’t even know what alto, soprano, and whatever the other two were, but now I can differentiate between them. We sang “Can You Feel the Love Tonight” and “Seasons of Love”, it was lots of fun!