Starting School

And the school year begins again!

My schedule this semester is fairly abnormal. I'm taking two core classes that I've never taken before (since I dropped E&M my sophomore year, I never took it as far as the registrar is concerned), two off-campus humanities classes, one off-campus CS class, and two on-campus "classes" that meet once a week and are worth 1/3 the credits of a normal class. So even though I'm in my 5th semester, I'm not in a full-credit in-major course on campus. On the plus side, this semester increases the number of campuses I've taken a real class at by 3: my logic and computing class is at Pomona, my music theory class is at Scripps, and my history/gender studies class is at Pitzer. If you count PE classes, then by the end of this semester I will have taken a class at every single one of the 5C's.

Other things I am doing this semester:
--I'm the GameSHMC treasurer! That means I'm in charge of buying club video games, club board games, and food for club events.
--I'm running ITR Games, which vaguely resemble tag. We play them in the rather maze-like basement of the academic buildings. When I told the deans that we were holding the first ITR Games a few weeks ago, they asked us to make sure the doors were shut when we were done. In general, the administration here trusts students to not break things, and to tell people when the do. Which means we get to run around in the basement on Friday night.
--I'm grading CS70, the data structures class that I took last semester. It's a pretty big time commitment (about 8 hours a week) but it's a lot of fun. I get to tutor underclassmen! Huzzah!
--I'm also still a CS staffer. One of the jobs of CS Staffers is to name computers when they come in, so that we can keep track of machines when "the third one from the left side of the counter" becomes "the computer we put upstairs." When we got a bunch of new computers the week before school started, I named them all after flowers.

Also, I am living in Sontag, on the 8-meal plan. This means I have dinner at the Hoch and I make my own lunches and breakfasts. Which I am about to do now.