And so it begins again...

The first day of classes:
-German - This was the "structure of modern German" class and, well, it wasn't anything like what I expected. Mike, the instructor, was fun/weird/interesting and he wasn't German. In fact, the entire 1.5 hours was in English except for a few German phrases thrown in, including "Seelenklempner", the German word for "shrink" (as in psychologist) which was translated as "soul plumber". Erin is in the class and that was fun and unexpected. I pretty much zoned out the entire time. I don't know if I was tired or what was going on.
-Environment 160 - This class was a lot more boring than I thought it would be. The professor was old and he had a big white/gray beard and a lisp. There is an hour lecture and then I have a two hour discussion right after that. We spent half of the time in lecture and discussion getting to know each other and learning about him. Then in discussion we had to read about drilling for oil in Alaska. That was especially boring. There's going to be a ton of group work and paper writing, both of which I hate. The classroom reminded me of the room at Goshen College where I sat in on a Biology lecture and it had a nice view of the snow falling in the Diag.

It looks as though there is going to be a lot of paper writing this semester. Gross. One class fulfills the upper level writing requirement, one has many little papers, one has a a research paper, and one is bound to have writing of some sort.

Both yesterday and today I wore a Wisconsin sweatshirt over a Michigan t-shirt. It was weird.