College log...Day two

Well this was day two of my college experience.

Well started of by dropping off bug at daycare (old one), and found out she is going to be closed on Friday. I'm not going to start ranting on how i feel about her.

Then i got to school. Went and got my vehicles registered on campus, had a great breakfast in the cafe, turned in my laptop to get cleared for the campus wireless, signed for a locker (which i probably wont use because you could only fit a tissue box into it).

Then i went to Finacial aid to check on a loan I got from the state of NY. its only 250 dollars but it will help with supplies for the semester plus, I have to get a calculator for my math class, as I'm going to need all the help I can get.

then i just sat in the lounge and chatted with the student president for a little bit. then i checked into a club for military spouses / dependents. more on that later.

My first class was World Geography. the teacher is pretty cool. he is an ex army officer. today we basically had a Google Earth tour of South America. that was the coolest class. Of course next Tuesday is the first quiz on the countries of South America. In case you wanted to know, there are 12.

Then i had 2 hours till my next class. So I went and got my laptop, went to the student commons and logged into the Internet for a bit. talked to Lani while i was there. She thought i at home. but I'm not about to drive back ad forth numerous times a day. I will just hang out on campus.

Then i had American History to 1865. That's when my world as i know it came crashing down. The prof started talking about doing crisis reports, and event texts, etc... he had me so confused before he got finished handing out the syllabus. Then we introduced ourselves, told what we wanted to do in 50 to 10 years, what was our first memory of a historic event, and lastly, what we would write about in 2028 if we were writing a history. I'm going to share mine with you.

Name
Museum Curator or work at the Smithsonian.
The space shuttle landing at White Sands Missile Range. I just don't remember what year that was. I think that was the only time it ever landed there.
i would write about the fossil fuel crisis that's going on right now.

We have two texts to read from. Each is on the opposite side the spectrum. so one day a week we will read from one and discuss/report on it, then the same for the other day with the other text. I'm going to have to talk to the teacher next class and see if he can help me.

Thing that bothers me is all the reports i have to do. i haven't done a report since the last book report in high school 20 years ago.

Also when some of the students were introducing themselves, i felt so old. some of them were too young to remember the first gulf war, much less before that. they were talking about stuff that happened in the last 15 years. i even asked if any of them remembered when we invaded Panama in 1989. even some of the active duty soldiers don't remember that. oh i felt so old.

Then the class was over and i ran for my life. so now i have to chapters to read for Thursday and have to come up with some kind of discussion point on EARLY American history for class Thursday.

well that's it for the day, more tomorrow.