More on Orientation 7/15/2002
The next day I spent running around making hotel arrangements and having my mother transfer more money into my account so I could pay for a hotel. I got lost on Binghamton's campus trying to find the building where I was supposed to meet my pre-med advisor. I walked in twenty minutes late, but he was very nice about it. He was very informative and helpful. It turns out that he's also my biology professor for this semester, which is nice.
Scheduling classes was a bastard. Everything I wanted to take was closed. Malini and I were planning to take Sculpture I together, but it was already filled. The computer program was ghetto and hard to work. I got closed out of my first and second choice English classes. One of the stupid orientation advisors threw me in 'Russian Short Story' at the last minute. It pissed me off because when I looked at it later, it specified that it was only for the freshmen and sophomores of a particular living community, which I am not a part of.
Quick sidenote: Binghamton has four living communities: Newing (the JAP dorms which are eerily similar to Flint and Day Halls), Hinman (tends to be a craphoot in terms of the fun-factor), College-in-the-Woods (a very popular living community since the people tend to be laid back and overall cool), and Dickinson (very quiet because most of the foreign students live there). Binghamton sets aside certain classes for people of certain living communities so you can have a better chance of getting to know others in your living community. In each living community, there are four or five dorms.
To make an incredibly long story short, I now have to petition out of this class so I can into another English class that is meant for my living community. But all of my other classes I had no problems with, so its all good.
While I was still fighting with the ghetto computer program, one of the other biology majors that I had met squeezed my arm as he left and said "Good luck" to me. His name was Mario. Very cool guy. I should have talked to him more. We got into a conversation the night before since we're both biology majors and I was asking him what classes he was taking. He's coming in as a junior, so he already took bio, and he's taking organic chemistry this summer. He told me orgo chem was REALLY hard. Dammit...not that I was expecting him to say it was a breeze, but it just worries me.
Before Malini and I said our good-byes, I offered her my e-mail address. She didn't offer hers and I didn't want to ask. She hasn't e-mailed me yet, so we'll see. Overall I had fun.
When I came home though my sister Becca and her friend/sorority sister Jamie were telling me about all ofthe phone numbers/e-mail addresses they got when they came back from their orientations. I didn't get any...I was so proud of myself that I walked up to starngers and started talking to them. But anyway...onto the counseling part of this entry
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