Orientation

Classes start tomorrow. I have biology and psycholinguistics. There’s a ten-minute gap between them, and that means that I have to run from one end of campus to the other in that amount of time. Not awesome. However, I have found a route that lets me run over the rooftops and is therefore not only cooler, but also shorter than other routes, so maybe I’ll manage to make it in time.

In other news, Captain No-Friends has managed to retain her title. I saw a couple of people from high school, but they seemed to be doing their own things.

There was an orientation thing today for all of the social sciences students. More people attended than were expected; apparently it was the biggest turnout they’d had. Despite the odds I think I managed to make a good impression. We were seated in bleachers in a gymnasium, and some girl near the top dropped her cell phone over the edge at the beginning of the presentation. Since I was seated on the bottom row I got up and got it for her. I also clapped at the end when some people won free stuff. Sometimes people didn’t clap for others, I suppose because they weren’t popular yet, and I was alone clapping for a bit. While I was there, I felt that all of my actions were pretty awkward, but in retrospect I think they make me a kind of cool person. So, overall, I’m pleased.

I hope tomorrow goes well.