Hello. I haven't posted in quite a long time, so I thought that now that I actually have something to write about, I should. This is most likely very boring (especially compared to unipeg's summer vacation... wow!) so read it your own risk.

Here I am at university. It's a really nice place. The meal hall is better than any other one I've been to. The library has books I didn't know existed, or at least never really expected to see myself ('The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature', 'Allgemeine Bücherkunde zur neueren deutschen Literaturgeschichte'). It's also interesting to see and hear so many different kinds of people every day, to listen to the different accents (like Bostonian, Jamaican, Indian), hear different languages, or see someone wearing a turban. It's not as fun when you can't understand what one of your professors is saying, though.

One of the neatest things here is that practically everyone gets the use of a new laptop included in their tuition. From almost any building on campus you can register courses, get an automatic booklist, and access many of a class' notes, or at least overviews of them, as PowerPoint presentations, so there's less to go through if you're sick and miss a class. It's quite convenient.

The university is small, but the students still practically double the population of the town. However, it's far larger than any place I've lived for a while. I think they can tell you're from the boondocks when they run across the crosswalk even if the nearest car they see is:

a) a block away.
b) parked.
or
c) non-existent.

I'm in a pretty quiet residence, which is good, and have a nice roommate, which is even better. I don't think I would have been very happy with a roommate who liked to drink a lot, or have parties in our room. I went through frosh week, which was really only five days, and was basically cut down to two for us because our frosh leaders got too tired/hung over to put much into it after awhile. It wasn't too bad, anyway. Mostly cheering, marching, doing silly stuff. We rubbed petroleum jelly and toothpaste in our hair, kept "Socko" on our hand, got up at 3:00 AM to do aerobics and bake muffins for the frosh leaders, rolled in mud, etc. I've heard of worse. Anyway, it officially ended yesterday. I wonder if they should have thought twice about stuffing all of those people into the small hall they had for closing ceremonies, then starting a cheering war. Loud!

The best experience by far here, though, has been the chapel. It was wonderful experience. I haven't been to church in years, but I think I'll be attending regularly now. I really can't describe the feeling very well, but it was *good*!

Well, you can wake up now. That's pretty much it. I hope that wasn't too boring, but it was very exciting for me.

Burger"Rambling, rambling, rambling"King