First Day Jitters

Today was the first day of fall quarter at Clark. I had been waiting all summer since I reapplied in May. It felt like it would never come. I was excited and I couldn't wait. Even after buying my books I felt like I had to wait.

Finally after waiting and waiting, the day has come. It felt a little different than a normal first day of school. Having spent my entire life living my life around school, my body had a schedule according to being in school. After spending a few years away, it crept up on me and I was thrust back into the environment. It may be a little too early to tell how this quarter is going to go, but it should be fun.

First to start off the day, I had to deal with parking. Clark is notorious for their awful parking, but I left this morning and put my head down, determined to find a spot. "Someone HAS to be leaving by the time I get there, right?" Wrong. I tried one lot. Then another. Then I gave up and drove to a not too far away neighborhood. As much as I hate to do it, I parked in front of someone's house on the street probably halfway between where I live and campus. I should get a bike. Or a Vespa or something. I made it to my first class, english, only a few minutes late. After english is french. I've been nervous about that class for some time. It's been two years since I've taken a class or even thought about french. I spent all summer telling myself to look through my notes even just a little bit to brush up, but I never did. Today was not so bad since we pretty much just read the syllabus in english for the hour, but it may be a challenge. I'm sure it'll come back to me, I'll just have to work a little bit harder.

Those were the only classes I had today. Very painless. Afterwards I went to pick up my financial aid check. I was a little surprised they had mine. I just recently got my award letter emailed to me maybe a week or so ago and some people ahead of me didn't have theirs yet. I went to deposit the check, and now here I am, ready for a nap. I have a little reading to do for my classes and a quick introduction activity for french, but I'll probably save that for after dinner. Tomorrow morning I open at work, have a little break, then english and french again, another long break and then my first physics class, which I recently learned I have with a buddy from work, so that's pretty exciting. That may help offset the fact that it's a 4:30pm - 6:20pm lecture.

It's good to be back. It feels right being a student again. Here's to a good year!