Welcome to My Life (Again)

Now back by popular demand: the rants and raves of Katherine!

I got so many sad comments when I ended my last blog, which was the tales of my trip to Ecuador, that I'm giving in to peer pressure and starting another one. This is just a general blog with no particular topic, where you can come and visit me and keep up-to-date with whatever trouble I'm causing. Ahem. I mean, whatever I'm working on at the moment.

August 25th marked the start of my junior year at Keene State. I moved into a single room in a suite-style dorm last Sunday, proving my coordination and grace in the process by falling over a grassy hillock with an armload of stuff. I didn't drop what I was carrying, but I did twist both ankles and remove several square inches of skin from one leg and knee. Though the scrapes are healing and the ankles feel all right, my knee is swollen and not so happy with life. We shall see how that progresses. In the meantime, I've once again stopped running to give it some rest. That's leaving ME rather restless, but there's not a lot I can do about that.

My class schedule this semester is pretty busy. Since I'm a semester behind in my major requirements (a product of my trip, during which I couldn't take any techie classes), I've loaded up the credits. Twenty credits is the top limit you can take without having to apply for more and pay lots of extra money, so that's what I've done: 20 credits, 5 classes. No fluff. My schedule is as follows:

CS 205: Visual Programming (in .NET Basic)
INCHEM 100: Introduction to Chemistry (all lecture, no lab)
CS 210: Midrange Systems Development (with an IBM i5 that has yet to actually function)
MU 116: History of Rock & Roll
CS 280: Data Structures (in Java)

You might see "History of Rock & Roll" in that list and protest my claim to no fluff classes, but you would be incorrect. While it's certainly not my number-one hardest class, it's not going to be an easy A. My guess is that chemistry will actually be my easiest class, just because I already had some of it when I took the introductory course in molecular biology. Easy or not, it promises to be interesting: the first day of class, the professor pulled out his first chemistry textbook "for nostalgic purposes" and started reading from it...and it burst into flames. This was followed by a grinning admission of being a pyro. This make me extremely happy.

The result of the 20-credit load, while I do like being kept busy, is that I spent all weekend doing homework and still haven't got it all done. I should probably stop telling you about this now and actually fix it. See you next time!