I think I'll pitch a tent in East Hall.

Yes, seriously I practically live in East Hall. This week (including tomorrow), I was in there from 11-12 MTuWF, 2:30-4:00 W, 3:00-4:00 Th, 7:00-9:00 Th, and 4:00-5:00 F. That is 10.5 hours in one building over a period of 5 days, and only 4 of those hours were for a class. It's nuts.

Today was a mix of good and bad. I'll start off with the bad.
Bad:
-I woke up after a rough night feeling more sick than ever.
-I was forced to do an impromptu presentation in German even though the sickness made my head so fuzzy that I could hardly think.
-I became more apprehensive about the study abroad decision that is facing me.
-I was almost hit by a huge bus, and when I say almost I mean it was no more than 2 feet away from me when it stopped.
Good:
-I was still excited about my German major.
-I had fun talking to Tracy during psych lecture.
-My time at the math lab was well-spent and I finished my calc homework.
-Tina and I worked on the linguistics homework and finished it.

So the math lab... I was there for about 3 hours today. The first time I was there, a GSI named Oscar helped me. He was really nice, especially considering that I was extremely dense and it took like 5 explanations before I finally got it. I mean, seriously, we spent the entire hour going over one homework problem. At one point he asked if I was doing engineering and I said, "No... I'm actually a German major." He kind of laughed at that and then said, "Well, at least you're learning more math." When I left, he asked how long I had been taking German and so I told him. He then said that he thought German would be more difficult than calc and then it was my turn to laugh. When I came back to the math lab in the evening, a male asian student helped me. For some reason I really got a grip on the things when he explained them and so I was able to leave feeling content. Before I left, there was a guy from Harlem across the table from me who was fun. He was in honors calc 1, which I took last year, so we talked about that a little. He said something about being excited for honors calc 3 and I laughed at that. He also asked what my major was and was also surprised when I said German. In conclusion, I had some good times at the math lab tonight.

To the tune that one song in The Wizard of Oz:
"I'm off to the Math Lab, the wonderful Math Lab of Michigan, because because because because I'm reeeeally stupid." I sang that before my second journey to the math lab. :)