Well here I am, sitting in my dorm room listening to Radiohead and updating my blog. Not the most eventful Friday night in the world, but to be honest I’m glad to have a bit of time to myself. It’s been an eventful week, an enjoyable week, a long week, a stressful week, and just about everything in between. The college has tried very hard to provide activities for freshman during New Student Week, and while I applaud their refusal to let anyone get lost, it’s been difficult to establish a routine of any sort yet. Everyday is different, and its an achievement just to remember where to go when.

I registered today, and I got all of the classes I wanted, which was exciting. This term I’m taking Linear Algebrea, French 103, and my Freshman Seminar, Complexity and Chaos. (For those who think I’m a slacker, 3 classes is a full schedule at Carleton). It seems like so little work, looking at my schedule and realizing I only have one class (French) on Tuesday and Thursday, but I know that such is not the case. There is an awe in people’s voices when they speak of the workload here, and I look forward to Monday with a mixture of excitement and trepidation.

On the extracurricular front, I audition for orchestra tomorrow afternoon. Pretty much any string player can be in orchestra, so the audition is really more for chair placement than anything else. I certainly don’t care about placement, I’m just looking forward to seeing the ensemble repertoire. I also signed up for lessons today, so hopefully those will start soon. I have work orientation (food service) tomorrow as well, so I guess I will soon know all the thrilling secrets of the institutional cafeteria.