So, I don't know that

So, I don't know that I'll fit in here at Northwestern. For one, everyone starts studying at 2 or 3 when they get home from classes. What is that? Is that for real? What ever happened to staying up till ten, eleven, even midnight, just watching movies, playing games, sports practices, talking online, and then when it gets late, finally deciding "well, i better get working on that english paper." This lifestyle of immediately doing homework might just not work for me. Or perhaps i chose the wrong dorm. My dorm, is a quiet dorm. I like this for the fact that when I do start my homework it will be easy to study. I like this because I am able to surround myself with other people who weren't looking for parties in the halls 24/7. I like this because the people here are good people. But i didn't realize that with that came the responsibility of studying. I'm used to Manual people, I guess. Although maybe not. Maybe it's just because I never surrounded myself at home with the same people I saw each day at school. Maybe all my friend's that I thought were procrastinators, like myself, really actually did secretly do their homework in their rooms afterschool. Right now even Iain is doing math homework, and he's had the same two days of school I have only at OSU.

Or maybe this is only because it's the second day of classes and people get in those mode where they're afraid they're already behind? Maybe once they get into the groove of their full week schedules and understand when they have down time for studying and when the fun activities are, they'll be a little better prone to entertainment? I have yet to see the Sophomores in my hall doing homework, this is true. Not even the seniors. I'm hoping people are just suffering from "freshmanitus" instead of senioritus. We shall see.

On another note, I have now been to all my classes. My chemistry teacher is cool, and he is involved with the nano building so I want to go talk to him about getting involved with that and the computer and electrical engineering side of things. Smaller transistors, therefore smaller and better digital cameras, camcorders, that sort of thing. I want to use my knowledge for art and photography I've decided. Then I have my engineering class. This first quarter of said class is all programming in MatLab. So I shouldn't have a problem with it, however the next couple quarters will be a different story. That's when we get into physics and other engineering disciplines and we'll see if the prestigious MST faculty provided me with a solid enough education for these (can i just bring to mind a few teachers ... zwanzig, gilbert, and albright ... yeah, thought so). I bought the book necessary for programming in Matlab, it's a required purchase, but when I look through it I relize it's just another programming book. And I own so many. They've never done anything for me in the past, so why read it now? Once you learn C, and visual basic, and java ... every language is easy to program in. all you need is a reference guide for syntax, which you find online for matlab or any other language. So maybe I wasted 100 dollars. Secondly, I need to actually purchase the matlab software, which again ... buying software?

My econ class is great. I love my professor. He's very funny. of course watch me hate him once I start receiving grades back. My math professor is the only one that sucks. he doesn't speak very good english, at all. So it's very hard to get anything from lectures and such. we'll see how that plays out. my schedule is set up so I just don't eat tuesdays thursdays and fridays. It's a shame, to be honest.

I've found though, that since I've gotten here, I haven't really eaten that much. It must be the dorm food. But I think in turn I'm losing weight. Which is good, I guess. but I just don't get hungry, that and they only offer lunch and dinner at said times, so it's like an inconveniance to eat. I need to change my meal plan and pay a little extra so unused meals turn into points.

What else. Everyone here is cool. Which is good. I love chicago, too, even though I've only been into the city once thus far.

Anyway, it's time for game three of halo. We got it set up on the network, and mike and i play. He's 2-0 right now but the last game was 8-1 and I came back and lost only 15-14. I've finally figured him out, he won't win again.

Spork.