Anyway, I think I will be able to make due and write something pretty decent despite only having read the first chapter of the book.
I then headed across the hall to Unraveling Food Systems, which also looks like it's going to be a very cool class. It is an area that I am interested in, but don't know that much about. I had to order three more text books for it though...thank God for amazon. That being said, if I added up all the money I have spent on text books... I could have bought about six pairs of toe shoes. (Which I really want by the way. They are crazy comfortable.)
After that class I was done for the day. Which again poses that problem that I am slowly working out, "what the hell do I do with my time?" I ended up taking a walk with a good friend of mine that I went to high school with who also goes to GMC. It was quite the relief to already have a friend here and through her I have already met so many people. I've met so many people these past few days...I've forgotten most of their names. But we will get there.
So we walked by the cows and the farm and the river and then up to the main lawn where we met her roommate. She left for class And her roommate and I bonded over Sherlock. It was pretty awesome. We ended walking into town and she showed me around a bit.
Later on I went to the first ultimate frisbee club meeting, where we pretty much tossed around the frisbee. Then it was dinner time. Which is about four hours earlier than when my family normally eats, but I'm getting used to it.
I worked on my paper for a bit and at eight I went to the first Farm Crew meeting. I plan to spend as much time as possible at and around the farm.
Then I came back to my room and my roommate and her friend were watching honey boo boo. Which is my guilty pleasure. So that was enjoyable.
It feels like a million years since I've arrived. So much learning and figuring out of things has taken place in the last few days. I've seen more hippies than I have ever seen ever. I seriously feel like I need to buy a pair of Birkenstocks to truly be a GMC student.
So I am slowly making my way and finding my friends. Which is what concepts me more than the class work. But all in all, if you have to make friends, hippies are the ones to do it with.
Have some respect for the hippies, for without them, you would not have the experience that is Green Mountain College.
ReplyDeleteAll kidding aside, the cost of text books is truly frightful. Amazon works, but keep your ear to the ground about used book sales. People certainly do want to unload text books they'll never use. The only time it pays to pay full $ for a book is if it's a reference book you'll keep forever. In other words, get a used copy of History of Basket Weaving in Ancient Mesopotamia, Part I, and pay the $ for the new Cassels German-English Dictionary or Duden Deutsche Grammatik 2013. You'll use the latter and will just end up dusting the former if you don't unload them quickly on some unsuspecting freshman once you are done with the course.
I'll bet hippies are way easier to make friends with! When I first arrived at Cornell U. way back in Sept. 1977, I met people,from the NY and NJ area! They were not the kind of people that I was used to having grown up in the much friendlier Midwest state of Ohio! After a while, I slowly made friends and, as it turned out, they weren't THAT bad. Luckily, I had my little brother and his derelict friends who were all at Ithaca College to hang out with - they were much more fun!
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