Second Weekend

The second week of classes seemed to go by pretty quickly. Each individual day feels like forever, though. The homework is mostly reading, but it's a lot of reading. I finished To the Lighthouse by Virginia Wolff, which I'm very proud of. Next up I have the Yellow Wallpaper and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.
Monday night, Dr. Maura Cullen came to campus as part of Orientation to give a speech on diversity. I was in the front row with a group of girls from my dorm, and 3 of us were absolutely bawling by the end. She was a great speaker.
Wednesday night, a professor from England gave a lecture on Globalization. Scripps (and the rest of the Claremont colleges) get great speakers to come give lectures, and I'm pretty excited for some of them. Next week's lecture is "The Shock Doctrine" by Naomi Klein, and next month Jared Diamond (author of Guns, Germs and Steel) will come and give a lecture centered around his latest book, Collapse. Karl Rove is coming on Monday to talk about "Politics and the Presidency." Some students have organized a protest for tonight against his coming to speak at all.
And in slightly sweeter news, the Motley coffeehouse had it's opening night celebration last night.