First couple of weeks

Yo. What's up? I'm procrastinating from studying. I think a good number of my blogs will written in this context.

So, what do you want to know? I told you about my first few days here. Once Mom left, I was really on my own. It was a good time, I was quite alone but having some time to just be myself was okay. I think I sometimes run from loneliness, but it's not such a bad thing. I rode around on my bike and took public transportation to get a feel for what was around. I read a lot. It now seems like a long time ago, and it was uneventful, so that's about all I can think of.

Once Roger, my roommate, arrived from Laramie, Wyoming, things changed quite a bit. He got in on Friday, Sept 15. It was good to finally meet him after talking on the phone and with email. He is quite a social person, so we went out and met some people. It turned out some guys from upstairs had their door open, so we just walked in a met them, then hung for the evening. We have since learned that 305 in our building is the location of frequent parties. 4 guys live there, so it is affectionately known as the "Isle of Man" I actually mentioned it in my last post. But anyways. The next day was the office of admissions party, where I started to meet more people. A group of us formed which lead to enjoyable activities over the next fews days. Example: the beach, on Sunday. But I am beginning to realize that a day by day description of activities will be long and tedious. So here is the gist of things...

Orienation week was from the 18th-23rd. This week was predominantly spent with my cohort. My cohort is made up of the 43 Students (15 guys, 28 girls) who are entering the PhD (25) or PsyD (18) program of clinical psychology this year. We had lots of activities to get to know them and also the faculty of the program. There was also lots of free food. It was good to learn about our program and classes etc. It was a different feel because for the 4 days leading up to it, I had hung out almost exclusively with the group formed at the office of admissions party. Then, I hung out almost exclusively with people from the psych group, because we had so many cohort related activities. I will be a little more work to spend time with people not in the same program, I think.

Another beach trip was made on Saturday at the end of orientation. So I'm glad I made it to the beach twice. I'm not sure how many more times I'll be able to go now that school started and it might cool down in the future (but it's in no rush to do so; it's still usually about 30 every day).

Okay, it's a couple weeks after this draft, which I saved and then left and then forgot about. At least I've got the blog back online; it was inaccessible for a couple weeks there. Umm...so what else? I don't know. So I'll curtail it here and then give you a more recent update soon (hopefully).

Early Cali Pics - Beach and Dancing