First (Few) Days' Funk

Thank God for the orientation; I was saved from insanity. Finally yesterday I met the people I was gonna be classmates with. 33/34 in the class. About 14-15 from Taiwan, 7 Americans, ... 1 Filipino. Ehem. The orientation itself was pretty long and dull. BUT. The lunch prior to that? A winner. I laughed so hard and that more than compensated for the 3-4 days I didn't laugh while stuck here in my room. (Well, it's not like I laugh everyday anyway. Point is, boredom FINALLY ended.) Everyone seems awesome but the 3 other guys (all homegrown Asians) I was on the table with were just hilarious.

Tomorrow, class starts. Statistics. Awesome. Okay, so it is scary that we will be having the program director for our professor. I heard he's good but the people from the previous batch gave me that face when I told them we were gonna have him. And it kind of starts to freak me out too. I'm not sure whether to get scared, really. After all, we had the program director and THE DEAN of our school for our statistics back in college. I did okay. It would've better were it not for probabilities, permutations and combinations. Ugh, disgusting. Point is, our professor now is "the Boss" as they aptly call him, but it shouldn't be so bad. Anyway, I don't want to enter his class every single time freakin out. Confidence, that's what Ateneo gave me. Naks. Seriously though, while the Stat we're doing this time may be different, it shouldn't be THAT different. And therefore, I shouldn't suffer. Shame if I do. I came here confident I will do well. Okay there will be stressful times, but it's all part of it. Plus, I like stress. :D

Speaking of stress, at the moment, I wanna do several things. Join USC's grad student's org, be part of our class' 'senate'. I just miss doing extra-curricular work. Org work. Stress work. It's probably one of the things I miss most being out of school. I tried to get involved while in Georgetown but the time just didn't permit it. This time, I have a lot of chances. So I wanna do it. Basically, in the 'senate', as in the real Senate, what one does is represent a certain group of constituents- to voice out the students' concerns and make a change. USC's Graduate and Professional Student Senate is the organization for all 14,000+ grad students of the university. How I'm gonna make a big contribution, I don't know. :D But I do want to. (After all, if I'm just gonna be stuck here in the campus the whole time, might as well keep myself busy with work). Then, I need to get a GPA of 3.5. Impossible but I'll keep dreaming. That will allow me to apply for Pi Alpha Alpha, an honor society for people from my school, SPPD. Apart from that, I would want to get a part-time job. In campus (I don't have a choice).

About being stuck, PLEASE. I. NEED. A. CAR. I've never been out of campus since I got here last Thursday. Fine, it hasn't been long. But seriously, soon it will be. I repeat, I NEED A CAR. (This is starting to freak me out.)

PS I saw I posted an "A&F Article" as I was scrolling down my blog. I can't remember posting that one. Though I'm quite sure it was me. A&F e. ;)