But the summer just started...

Agh, this whole month i've been thinking to myself that i had plenty of time before classes started again. Today i realized i only have a week before they actually do. oh man, my classes just ended like a month ago! And then i started my thesis work. My summer was non-existent. This is ridiculous.

I'm kinda panicking about how i only really have 5 classes left at amherst because of my thesis. And four of them will be filling (semi-)requirements. Two of them I do actually have to take for the psych major, and two of them are me trying to get in as many neuro classes as possible. So I dont really need to take them, but its probably a good idea. Which leaves me really with only one class for myself to take just for fun. This makes me sad, should I try to take four classes first semester anyway? Man, I had fun in Germany and I don't regret going, but the academics weren't exactly stellar and i feel like i wasted four potential classes at Amherst.

I'm not ready for college to end! Things are moving too fast.

Wet blanket

AGH! So last night when I went to take a shower after moving in, the water was just lukewarm. I thought maybe it was just a fluke, showered quickly and got out. Today I went again in hopes that the hot water would be back, but instead it wasnt even lukewarm, just cold. I couldnt actually get myself to stick my head under the water so I haven't really had a proper shower at all today. What the heck is going on. Does no one else in Moore realize that there's no hot water? Is it because I'm showering at night? I decided not to live in a house this year because I was sick of the old bathrooms and now the one in moore is giving me more trouble than I've ever had at Amherst (except for a few times in Plimpton sophomore year maybe..) I'm starting to wish I had just taken a room in Wieland or King (for the non-amherst folks: these are new dorms that were opened last year; beautiful dorms but mostly smaller rooms and more out of the way...)

This makes me so angry. I just want a hot shower damnit.

Grr.

Home of the future

So I moved from summer housing today into my dorm for the year. It took me two hours just to move things into my car at Seligman, drive to Moore and move all my stuff upstairs into my room. Nuts! It's much harder to move when you're by yourself and as weak as I am, since that means that you can really only carry one box at a time and they're small boxes because i cant carry anything too heavy. Ha. At least there's an elevator in Moore. Plus I had to make two trips back and forth since I couldn't fit the cello in with everything else. And then i looked around my room and decided that i needed to do some serious furniture rearranging. Unfortunately my room is rather awkwardly shaped (it's a trapezoid!) so nothing looks quite right, but i've decided that I'm satisfied with it. Or maybe i'm just too tired to deal with it any more. Also weird is the fact that the little box with the ethernet and cable jack is up by the ceiling instead of near the ground, which means I have wires and cables running up and down my wall. I suppose it's kind of unsightly, but I've already stopped caring. i'll take pictures when i've unpacked and decorated (which could be a while since I left all my posters at home..oops).

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Hopefully I'll update this fairly often. I'm counting on this cute little polka dot background to motivate me. In the meantime, I've added a second entry to my belated Heidelberg travel thingo (i've got it linked under A Semester Abroad in the left column over there.