Classes.

Monday was my first day of class, and left me far from excited for this semester. However after today and going to my Monday Wednesday Friday classes for the second time, I now have a second opinion. It was much more enjoyable today since we didn't talk just about syllabi but we actually delved into real classwork. I'm liking my professors even more now, and my HBM teacher continued to crack me up today.

Yesterday I went to a free Pilates class at the rec center, and fell in love. Tomorrow I'm going to another free class of it, and if I still love it, then I'm signing up for the class. It's 38 bucks, but still Pilates is a great way to lose weight and tone your body. I might just do it all year long if I can. Today i've been eating lighter and drinking only water. At breakfast I did have some soy chocolate milk, but other than that it's just been water. Right now I really need to get to doing my homework. I have an online thing I have to get done by midnight and I may be going to a movie night with some friends. I must go!

Sitting in the CUB

Right now I'm sitting in the cub. I have class in thirty minutes. My first class was good. I already have homework, but the teacher seems reasonable. He doesn't accept late work no matter what the situation is. But, he does knock off your lowest 4 homework grades at the end of the semester. So really you can miss up to 4 assignments. But he seemed pretty easy going.

Something funny did happen though. Right after class officially began at 10:10, my professor starting talking about how he doesn't understand why some people seem to think that the first day of class is optional and how he only sees 60 people in a class of 105. I looked around and noticed a lot of empty seats. Right as he said that though, the door opened and this guy asked if the class was math 201 and when it started. Dr. Allen said yes and that class started five minutes earlier. So the guy came in the classroom, followed by about 40 other students who had been waiting outside the door. Apparently the closed door really confused people, but it was funny seeing all the people pile in five minutes late. The class is 105 students, but it didn't really feel like it. It wasn't in an auditorium and the chairs were kind of close to each other so it just really didn't look like 105 people. I can't explain it. Okay well I think it's time for me to go class. It doesn't start still for another 20 minutes but I'd like to head in it's direction right now so I'm not late. People seem to be arriving to class extra early today.

First day of classes!

Today I have the following classes.

Math 201

HBM 131 (hospitality)

GenEd 111 (yay for freshman year)

English 101

I'm also so incredibly upset because at noon the president, Elson Floyd, is coming to MY dorm building to take a photograph with the residents. This photograph will go on press releases and essentially go down in history. Also there will be plenty of news reporters and it will be a huge blowout. As someone who actively seeks out news cameras to appear on, it kills me to say that I have class at noon. Last night my dorm had an all hall meeting and it was discovered that probably only about 15 people don't have class at noon. The president is awesome, I saw him speak at Convocation last friday and he was just so cool. I want to meet him! That is one of my goals in the next four years. Needless to say I am crushed that I won't be able to attend this event. But I'll live. And the class I have at that time is my HBM class which is the only one I'm truly looking forward to. Ah, so bittersweet.

Right now I'm going to write a to-do list for things I need to do and purchase when I come home for Labor Day. I'll post again later with a detailed report on how my first day of classes went!

Stevens is Haunted.

I'm sure of it. Last night I went and visited the oldest dorm on campus. In fact it's the oldest dorm still in use for its original purpose in the western united states. It's called stevens hall, it was built in 1895 and it's scary as hell. It's supposed to be all cute and old, but the fact that a murder took place in it, doesn't help. Yes, I said murder. This part of the story isn't legend, but actual fact. In the 70's a girl used to illegally hang out in the basement during the summer, for who knows why. Anyway, she eventually was murdered. The story is that when cleaning crews came to clean out the place before the school year started, they noticed a patch of carpet missing from the living room area which they assumed was just vandalism. Anyway, when they went down to the basement to clean, they opened the door to one of the rooms to discover blood all over the walls. Some nine months later, the body of this missing girl was found wrapped in the carpet that was stolen from Stevens. That part is true, whether or not all the stories of ghostly encounters are true as well, I don't know. But I visited that dorm last night and it was scarrrry. I'd love to visit it again when I bring up my camera, perhaps then I'll venture into the basement where most of the activity actually occurs. Scarrrrry.

Right now, I've got some friends coming up to my dorm, so I'd better clean up!!

Sorry I haven't updated this as often as I used to, but the last two days have been really busy for me. I had a lot of time on my hands the first two days with no one here and nothing to do, but now I'm constantly hanging out with friends, which is what I'm about to do. So later tonight when I get back, I'll update it with my recent goings on as promised.

Exploring.

Yesterday evening, Shea and I walked around campus a bit, and we explored the craziness that is her dorm. Wilmer-Davis. It's one of the really old ones, but underneath it is Hillside dining center which is pretty good and nicely renovated. Anywho, while looking for the laundry room, we descovered this creepy room, that probably isn't so creepy while in use, but at the time it was completely empty and looked to be straight from the set of a horror film.

It was far underground, and there was one door on the side that scared the crap out of Shea when she opened it. It was really dark and scary, but I was too scared to investigate myself.

My phone warps pictures if you're moving too fast whilst taking one. But this is the Bryan clock tower. It glows red at night.

Right now I'm just waiting for my friend to finish showering so I can go to her dorm and we can hang out, and then spend the rest of the day checking out campus, walking our schedules and so on. It'll be a fun day!

Well one of the guys with whom I'll be sharing a bathroom this year is currently moving in. Finally I am hearing ruckus coming from the other dorm room. I wish I hadn't shut the door to the bathroom. I seriously closed it no more than five minutes before he and his family showed up. If it were open, surely they would have peeked in and I could have introduced myself. Oh well. Time for pictures!

My iPhone sometimes makes my pictures look all warped. But still, you can see the stairs that I'll have to climb everyday after class. Ugh.

Stadium Way

The bridge over stadium way

I is so bored.

So today I've got some friends finally moving up, but they won't be here for another few hours. I'm just not sure what I should do until then... I'm thinking I might just walk to the cub again, get some subway, and then walk back. I am pretty hungry. I'll take some photos on my walk, then when I get back, I'll post them pictures.

Changes

Okay so two of those aren't of the dorm, but more of my view, which is especially beautiful at this time of night!
My roommate and I lowered our beds and it was a wonderful decision. Here are some photos of the new set up.

Camera

Why didn't I bring my camera? Today could have been spent taking some beautiful photos of the campus, but no I'm just sitting here doing nothing. It's beautiful here in Pullman today, the campus is just glowing! Oh well, I'll bring it up after labor day.

I guess right now I'll take a look through all my textbooks then after that I'll start reading the Omnivore's Dilemma which the whole school is supposed to have read by now. Oops.

Just chillin in the cub.

This is where I am right now. Well actually I'm about to leave to go get some subway. But yeah, I had to get away from my dorm. I felt so secluded. When I go back though I'm going to try and see if I can't prop my door open some how, and if I can't, well then I'll just keep it shut and become a recluse for the rest of the year.

I'm finally settled.

Well no not really. I've unpacked, but my room needs to be decorated more. I left a lot of things at home/ never bothered to purchase them because I thought my room would have been tiny. Actually, it's quite large, and I have room for all kinds of things I never would have thought one could fit in a dorm room. I EASILY could fit a big sofa, not that I planning to do so. But I would like to get another chair, and a lamp, and definitely a little bookshelf.

Here are some photos of my room.

My bed, which doesn't look that tall in the picture, but believe me, it is.

My INCREDIBLE view! It's going to be amazing when it snows!

My view from my already very messy desk. Hello Macbook.

Blurry picture of my sink.

So as some of you may know I've been without internet for a while (to me half a day is a long time without internet). The problem seemed to be that the building is having a difficult time getting wifi to everyone, so the issue was not with my computer. I ultimately realized that the only way to remedy this aside from just waiting for the wifi to be fixed, was to walk to the bookie to buy an ethernet cord, so now I'm wired to the wall on my laptop, but the internet is working just wonderfully! Also in order to watch TV on your laptop (a feature only found in my dorm, which is brand new and very tech savvy), you need an ethernet cord, so regardless of whether or not the wifi is working, I needed this cord. I didn't bring a tv, which for now seems fine, but I may want to bring one back up this winter. After walking back from the bookie where I got my ethernet cord, I discovered a much shorter route to and from my dorm, which I'm so glad I discovered now, and not in the middle of the year. I had been taking a rather circuitous route that added at least another 5 minutes to the journey. When you're walking, five minutes is a big deal.

Yesterday evening, I went mad without my internet so I walked with my macbook in my backpack all the way to the cub (keep in mind folks, WSU is a very large campus), and alas the wifi was working wonderfully there, confirming my belief that my laptop is flawless. Later that evening I walked to Dissmores with some friends, which was horrifically long and exhausting. It's not a hop, skip and a jump from my location, and really it's not a place one should walk to, but we did it nevertheless. I bought some Hi-C, and some cheeze its. Despite the long walk, it was a fun night and it was good to hang out with people. My roommate is doing his orientation so he's gone all day. I was without much social interaction since my family left earlier in the afternoon. I probably won't see my friend Brenda tonight since she's rushing, excuse me, she's at "recruitment" (the greek folks here at WSU now prefer the latter term instead of the former, don't ask why), but that's okay. I've got my internet, so I'm entertained.

Today is the last hard day really, since some of my friends start moving up tomorrow. It'll be a good day, I'm excited for it. Tomorrow is also the day where all the Week Of Welcome activities begin.

I'm moving up today.

Today I am moving up to WSU and I'm excited/nervous. I have a lot to do so really I shouldn't be on here but I can't stop myself once I get a great idea in my head.

First I need to shower, then I need to run to my work for a final goodbye to my co-workers and to drop off a senior picture to my boss and pick up her letter of recommendation she wrote for me in case I want to get a job up at campus. My job is pretty sweet because I'll be working there during christmas and next summer, in fact when I come back down in a few weeks for labor day I'm already scheduled for saturday and sunday that weekend!

But yeah I still have to get all my stuff together and ready to go, so I must leave. Once I move up and am settled in, I'll take pictures of my room and post them here for you all to see!