One of the major things for me and the rest of my freshmen friends right now is registration (which happens to end today). This was our first time picking our own classes at college and then navigating the registration process online. I’ll admit to being pretty excited, especially about seeing which classes would be offered next semester. The classes came out online and in a newspaper supplement students received in their mailboxes. My degree audit in tow (a degree audit shows you what requirements you still have left for your degree, including requirements for your major and Central Curriculum requirements), I began picking out classes. After some contemplation about how many courses I should take, whether I wanted to take any courses for the Editing & Publishing minor I’m thinking of declaring, how I felt about night classes, etc., I came up with the following courses: Introduction to Creative Nonfiction, Applied Biblical Ethics, Principles of Sociology, and Thought & Civilization. Two would be on Tuesdays and Thursdays, the other two on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
Whether I’ll get into those classes will not be discovered until a later date, however.
I also didn’t get to share what my first Halloween at Susquehanna was like. I had meant to be Wendy, to match a friend dressed as Peter Pan, but I had procrastinated getting a costume. My friend Lindsey and I walked into town on the Saturday of Halloween weekend, hoping I could buy and piece together something from a thrift store. Alas, we had slept in too late and the store was closed. In the end, I simply went as a hippie, wearing a tye-dye T-shirt my parents had bought for me, my somewhat tattered, bell bottom-y jeans, and a scarf from Lindsey as a headband. That Saturday we went to the TRAX Halloween party and had a lot of fun. Unfortunately, actual Halloween, which fell on a Sunday, was spent doing schoolwork. This past weekend I went on the InterVarsity Fall Conference, which was at Refreshing Mountain Camp near Lancaster. InterVarsity Christian Fellowship is one of the religious life organizations on campus that I’m really happy to have gotten involved in early during my college career. Though I love SU, getting off campus for a short period is always great. I got to spend time with two friends on my floor in Hass and got to know other people from IV a bit better. Of course, I also got to experience plenty of prayer and worship.
When we got back on Sunday, I hosted an overnight student who’s interested in Creative Writing and Journalism. I tried to give her the inside scoop on Susquehanna life. I’m hoping she had a good experience here and that I conveyed all SU has to offer.
As far as academics go, I recently had a workshop in Intro to Fiction that went really well. I just had my conference with Dr. Bailey today to discuss my story (which is probably going to be one of the longest stories of the bunch for the second time; my inner novelist just isn’t allowing anything under 10 pages). Soon enough, my dorm room will be turning into Rewrite Central. In my Thought class, which I take for the Honors Program, I’ll be leading my class in discussion on a section of The Persepolis next Monday, a fascinating memoir told in graphic novel form. Of course, I’ve also endured exams since last writing, but that’s not nearly as exciting.
All in all, things at Susquehanna are going well, chugging down that track to Thanksgiving break.
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