Settling In

My bulletin board
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So I've been settling in here, and registering for all my classes.  You would think, or at least I did, that in a university that's been around forever, they would have the whole registration process down.  It was seriously the most frustrating thing.  First of all, nothing is online, which now that I don't have online registration makes me love it so much more.  Then, each department registers seperately from the others, so I had to go to 4 places throughout the week to register for my class there.  It seemed though, that every time I went to a department it was their first time registering anybody for anything.  At the History department, they had one man looking at the classes for all of the international students taking anything in History, English, Theology, and Classics, so there was a huge line that was not moving at all.  After I waited 2 hours and 15 minutes, they told us we had to come back the next day, where I waited another hour just to get in and see this guy.  At the modern languages department, where again, there was only one person to deal with everyone, I saw that he had just writen everyone's name in a notebook under a class title, and that was his system.  It just seemed so backward and horribly inefficient.

My sink area, all decorated
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However, despite all my complaining, I seem to have gotten all of the classes that I wanted (Some seem to be still up in the air, but I'm not sure, it was all very confusing).  I'm taking a European Politics class, a class on Contemporary Italy, a history class about Britain in the middle ages, and French.  It's so weird to, because I have absolutely no class time.  At the most I have 2 hours of class a day, but I average one class for one hour a day.  I guess you have to do a lot more on your own, so I'm kind of nervous as to how that's going to be.

My sad, little bed
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Other than that, I'm doing fine.  I made friends with a bunch of girls from my corrider, and they're all really really nice.  I've felt pretty comfortable here, which is good.  The weather is something I'm still getting used to... I do appreciate the sun when it does come out though.  So far it's about as cold as California would ever get, so I'm a little nervous that we aren't even close to winter, but hopefully I'll be fine!