Day 2

So yesterday, my first day of classes at the University of Maryland, went off fairly well. I didn't have any problems finding my classes and ultimately accomplished all that I needed to. My teachers from my French, Performance and Math classes (the classes I had yesterday) all seem very good, so I'm excited about that. I think I will enjoy my courses, although I'm sure I'll be very consumed with work from now until the end of semester. Campus is so alive now. Visiting here during the summer and even for the meetings and such before classes began, campus was very empty. Big and empty. But now there are people everywhere, rushing from this class to that, meeting in the Stamp Union Center, strolling the quad. Cars flood the few streets through campus as well. Walking across Campus Drive yesterday reminded me of a busy weekday afternoon on 18th street in NYC. Cars honking, pedestrians crossing in between them, and university busses toting passengers in the mix. They really should close off car access on campus during the day. It would make it safer and less stressful for everyone.

Last night I only had to worry about my Math homework because that's the only class that I have everyday of the week. But tonight I'll have to worry about all of the classes from yesteraday that I have tomorrow plus government and math. But it won't be a problem yet because we've basically just had class introductions and the like. Nothing very serious - yet. But I will apply myself liberally, as always, and do look forward to doing so. In addition to my workload which I know will be heinous, I have already signed up for three auditions: one for The Weir, one for The Distance from Here, and one for my CAPA scholarship. I'm also considering signing up for the UTAS reading series auditions as well. But I'm not sure. I definitely don't want to overload myself - living off campus, being a new student, and taking a very intense math. So I think I'll wait and see on that one. I don't know if anything will come from the three auditions that I've lined up so far, but even if nothing does it's always good to audition and audition often. So I will.

I'm sitting in the plaza right now in front of the Hornbake Library. My next class isn't until noon in the Armory and my play analyisis professor let us out of that class EXTREMELY early, so I really don't have anything to do for a while, so I'm blogging! They're calling for possible flooding and hurricaine weather up here in The District, and from being outside I can attest to the pre-rain aura that looms about the campus. The sun is strating to peek through though. Hopefully I won't be caught in any rain today as I don't have an umbrella, something I really should invest in. But what will happen will happen and I only have two more classes today, something I'm very thankful of. Maybe I'll be able to get home before the monsoon cometh. Who knows? Well that's it for now, I'm going to go study something. Because I'm back in university and that's what people in university do.