My Dorm Room

So I posted pictures of the outside of my dorm room because the inside was pretty messy until today. This is my side of the room. I'm really excited, because now that I bought posters and we got curtains and those funny little mirrors, it feels homey. And it will be messy again by tomorrow- so here's my photographic proof of my beautiful spacey room.
And this is Julia's side of our room. Together, it's one very large room. And we finally got food for our refrigerator. We bought cereal, milk, lots of yogurt, and snack bars. We've been taking fruit from the dining hall, too. Though you can pick tastier oranges right off the trees!
In other news, Field house training was today. It was all pretty basic customer service stuff, but since the building/administration/policies are all so new, the rules are very up in the air. Which makes it pretty hard to be certain about anything. Like whether or not it's ok to wear flip flops at the front desk. I'll continue to do it until someone tells me not to, I guess!

Here are a few more views of my dorm room:

First Weekend of the Semester

I got through my first week of classes alright, and now I have a job! I sit at the front desk of our new gym and make sure people sign in. My first shift was so slow that I read 50 more pages of To the Lighthouse by Virginia Wolff. Shifts come only 2 or 3 hours at a time, as well, so I'm not losing huge chunks of my day. Most non-work-study students have a hard time finding jobs on campus, so I'm glad I nabbed this one so early!
On another note, meal-plans here max out at 16 meals per week, which, if you'll count, don't exactly account for every meal. Julia and I are planning to go find a grocery store or some such and try to buy some breakfast foods.

First Week of School

Today was my second day of classes. I'm pretty happy with them, for the most part. I love Italian. It is the best way to start my day. Profesoressa Magistro speaks to us only in Italian which was a little intimidating at first, but is a really fun way to learn the language. I like it so much better than French. And Julia is taking Italian too, so I have someone to practice with. :) Core I is a little borderline. The lectures, which are every other day, are pretty interesting. We have discussion groups the day we don't have lectures, but the professor that leads my discussion group doesn't lead discussions. He just spends all the time we have talking. My peer mentor, Jocelyn, had him last year and she says it's like that all semester. The homework for that class is really intense. We had 40 pages of Galileo to read before the second lecture, and Galileo is a very wordy and repetitive guy. It was almost pointless, all the reading they gave us.
My marine biology class looks pretty promising. I'm one of the few first-years that was able to get into the course, so the first day I sat next to a couple of Scripps seniors. I was worried that I wouldn't be able to find the building because it was on Claremont McKenna's campus, but as I was walking there I ran right into Trevor, a football player from Wilson who now plays at CMC. He was able to point out the building to me and I found the classroom just fine. Hopefully, that class is as fun as I think it will be. We have a field trip in November to the coast.
My Writing 50 class is awesome. Our professor just has us call her Chris, and this first day we just went through the syllabus and introduced/talked a little bit about ourselves. We write 4 papers over the semester, and at the end of the semester/year the 2 best papers get awards and the authors scholarship money. I'm going to try really hard for that, but we'll see. It sounds like our class will also be having a lot of interesting discussions on the topic, and I'm pumped for that.
It doesn't feel like it's only the second day of classes. Scripps feels like home already.

Day Before Classes

I registered for classes yesterday. My first semester classes are:

• Core I- our interdisciplinary humanities class
• Writing 50 "Dangerous Domesticities"- which is my writing class built around a theme of relationships that have been seen as abnormal at one time or another i.e. same-sex marriage, polygamy, interracial couples, etc.
• Beginning Italian
• The Living Sea- a marine bio class for non-science majors.

I'm pretty happy with it. But I couldn't take fencing because it conflicted with my Writing class. I bought books for the classes today and it was $400. Ouch.

The last couple days have been filled with 5-college parties. The first photo is from the carnival held here at Scripps, and the second is from a dance party held last night at Pomona.