A few thoughts on returning to University

Oh boy, oh boy! First day of school...since--like--3 weeks ago!

But this was different. With the start of Spring Term, there are a whole lotta people on this campus now. There's nowhere to eat lunch, except the cement pillar next to all the occupied tables. The line at the convenience store, as one girl said, is not convenient. And the textbook section?!? Man...short girls really have to watch out there.

Professors and the use of profanity:
It has become necessary in the course of teaching Political Science and Chinese Foreign Policy to use various words to designate excrement and um, bedroom events. I thought it was only my brother that says, "You gotta be f-----g kidding me!" Nope, it's my Pol Comm teacher too. The Prof for Chinese Foreign Policy was a little more temperate; he just made a polite request for "no B.S." Hey, I can respect that. In fact, I don't need no stinking B.S. And you know why?! Because I have a B.M.! Ba ha ha!!

That is both funny and sick at the same time. Hopefully my readership knows that B.M., in my life, is more commonly referred to as "Bachelor of Music".

"What is this thing you call Blackboard?"

Am I really this old? In an entire class, I was the only person who didn't know what Blackboard was. I know what LPs are! And rotary dial! Do they count?

Blackboard is apparently some kind of online tool that professors use to post notes about the class; my Current Topics prof will be using it so we can discuss things with each other. I told him it made me thinking of chalk and 1st grade, and still, no one else knew what I was talking about. Not to mention at the front of the classroom, the so-called blackboard was white.

Those are the thoughts for now. Barring a stampede at the bookstore, more updates will be upcoming.