Tue & Wed 30-31

Tuesday:
Last day of orientation!
Had a more normal morning, showered, ate breakfast (they started scanning our ID cards), went to the ASFC to ride a bus into Lancaster to view a community service thing. The Claire House takes in women and women with children, gets them back on their feet.
I met another facebook person today, she works on the college newspaper, the Dispatch.
Went in for lunch, saw a theatrical performance at the ASFC covering current socialisms, very raw, and then had a sort of indoor grill dinner, where they ran out of ketchup. I was joined by a pair of upperclassmen, one of which is pre-med like me. She said she's taking Organic Chemistry, which is a make or break for many pre-med students.
My room is cold because I run the AC in hopes of deadening the musty smell in here. Can't open the windows because there's dumpsters right outside.
I go to bed listening to The Section Quartet - Yellow.

Wednesday:
Today is the first day of classes!
I have breakfast with another person from Facebook. Join her party of three actually. Still feel like the odd one out everywhere.
I go to Japanese 201, and I still wonder if its too high level. There's at least 1 senior in there, and only one other freshmen. He thinks he wants to switch out. I'm intimidated. All in all theres 11 people in that class.
I need to run to chemistry, because Japanese lets out only minutes before chem is supposed to start in another building.
I sit through the class, and read the syllabus, and realize that the year would all be review, so I have a talk with the teacher about moving up a level. When I leave the room, I saw that someone left a calc book under their desk. I know who sat there so I take it with me. (She's one of the three from breakfast.)
I go and talk to the head of the chemistry department, and he has a slow speech/discussion/lecture with me. He seems reluctant to let me go to the next level, I don't know what I'm getting myself into he says. I say I'd rather push on than sit back and just get an easy A.
I needed to buy different Japanese books, which raises my books bill.
I go to lunch.
Afterwards I stop by a friend's room with my laptop to get some of his music. He has class really soon, so I leave the laptop there as he locks the room and goes off.
I tried changing my schedule myself at the registrar's office, but she tells me I need a signature from the chemistry chair, so I go over there with the paper, and he tells me that I can go into the next class, which happens to be Organic Chemistry. It doesn't click until afterwards, but there it was, the make or break class for pre-med students. I'm only a freshmen, dear god. What have I gotten myself into?
He tells me lab is going on at that moment, so I go upstairs without supplies, join in and do the lab on borrowed materials, finish it sucessfully (with no experimental error, huzzah. Didn't make a fool of myself from the get go anyway.)
I have to buy different chem books, this once again raises my books cost. Most of this is going on the credit card, but some of it is straight cash.
Since I missed the class section, and was only there for the lab, I needed to borrow someone's notebook. I'm slow, so I catch the last person there. She semi-reluctantly agrees, which makes sense, I wouldn't want to lose my stuff either, but she lives just feet away in the same building.
I talk to several people on the phone while I'm copying the notes, go to her room and drop them off with her roommate.
I have dinner, then go to one of the last meetings for my pod.
I'm going to sleep. I don't think I sleep soundly here. I haven't felt rested since the day I came. I'm now stressed too about the workload from the two not-intended-for-freshmen-courses I'm in. This is either going to be a tough battle, or a catastrophe.
I go to bed listening to The Verve Pipe - Colorful.

P.S.: I need to start taking pictures, will try in the near future.