Classes!

Yesterday was the first day of classes! Which means that this is no longer a vacation… boo… But it’s still been pretty good so far. It turns out that my schedule isn’t nearly as intense as I originally thought it was since it seems like the classes don’t meet every day or every time that they are scheduled. But that changes in the next few weeks. I had my first experience with a real engineering course today. Meaning a course were the ratio is awful. Like literally, in a class with 100 people, most of whom were in lecture, I was able to find 2 other women. It was a really weird experience. I also had the weird experience of seeing cadavers for the first time. No faces or heads today but dissected body parts were on tables along with some bones to look at. It was really cool but a kind of surreal experience of, somehow, this is me. That’s all that’s holding me together, this thing that looks vaguely like what I eat for dinner every night. And there were weirdly humanizing bits, for some reason, the fingernails and toe nails made it seem more real. Which isn’t the thing you think you would take notice and seem most familiar but it was. I totally geeked out and was looking at the bones and checking out their structure… yay tissue engineering! I also got my “reading brick.” One of them is legitimately a brick. Like I could probably knock someone out with it. This will be interesting. It also turns out that there are 5 kids here from Pitzer. Thanks for letting me know Mudd… It was really random running into two of them in one of my classes. When she mentioned that she went to Pitzer we kind of just freaked out about that together for awhile.

I should also maybe come up with a better way to do titles than Noun! We’ll see.

Expanding on the cookie sheet theme as requested by Kyle:

This cookie sheet is a good representation of this trip so far. We bought it, expecting it to be awesome and thinking we could make cookies on it. But when we got to the kitchen, the oven was too small, this was an unexpected result. Who makes a tiny oven?? So we made it work (you should have seen me like jumping up and down on the thing). It may not be the prettiest thing in the world but we can definitely still make awesome, tasty cookies on it. And go sledding on it.