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I hope that works. My video uploading thing is giving me something I don’t want, and won’t allow me to close out of it. So I have to leave the page. So I couldn’t add the video directly to the post. #dumb
This was one of the songs we sang tonight after our picnic, and the line that I used for the title of this post really hit me.
They split us up into two groups for tonight’s stuff, labelled as the school’s colors (blue and gold, my two favorites! — no that had no bearing on my coming here) depending on where you’re living. My group had the picnic first, while the other group had a welcome service in the chapel first. Then we switched.
The Welcome Week committee had a song for us (which I realized that L had been singing yesterday), and a video, and there were a couple of speakers. At the end of all of that, we sang two songs. This one (above) and this one.
I guess we like Hillsong here…
Anyhow.
That was that.
At the end of that, it was chaos to try to get into your group, because they had everyone go at the same time. Bad idea. Note to school: let certain groups go at certain times to avoid chaos. Not wide enough aisles for a couple hundred people to wade through things. #duh
And after that was group time. There was a separate thing for transfers and students who commute, so that we weren’t lumped in with the freshmen. We played a couple ice breaker games (ugh) and were led to our Lounge, where there will be free breakfast tomorrow before a Q&A session where we can listen to past transfers and stuff. So I think I’ll go to that.
Tomorrow’s pretty busy. I’m not sure if I’ll be around when C moves in, which is unfortunate. 😦
I’m trying to figure out when I can meet my dad for him to give me some stuff I forgot. I’ll be busy when he gets to town on Saturday, and Sunday is pretty much full too. Ugh. This stinks.
I just want it to be Sunday night and everything to be taken care of. But if that wish were granted, I’d miss out on some realizations or something throughout the weekend. Ack.
I got back from my transfer thing to find my roomie just about to leave for some work outing. She didn’t really want to leave me here by myself again (she works all day tomorrow, too!), but I guess it’s a tradition and she kind of felt obligated to go. Maybe she’ll back before I fall asleep… But still, she has to be up insanely early, so we probably won’t talk much anyway.
I have meetings tomorrow, and lunch, and maybe a free afternoon unless I go to a 45-minute meeting specifically for transfers or meet with my adviser or something. And then dinner and then some big new-student group activity til like 9 or something. I dunno. I might leave that early and see if I can spend time with my roomies instead or something.
One of the people who spoke tonight (our president, actually, who is also an introvert!) encouraged us to stay on-campus (mostly) the whole month, and not go home for a few weeks. I feel like he was mostly speaking to the freshies, but I guess it goes for transfers too. Commuters, not so much. Heh.
Anyway, so we’re encouraged to not leave campus for a month. I’m not sure if he meant the rest of this month, or if he meant for the next four weeks, or all of September. But anyway, we’re encouraged to not leave campus for a while to get used to things here and whatever.
I know that K had a challenge at her school Fresh year. If they stayed on campus the whole first 30 days, they got some kind of reward like a tshirt or something. Not sure this school is going to do that, but our prize can be the knowledge that we’re okay without our parents, maybe?
I agree – don’t go home for at least a month. At the time while you’re still at college, it’ll probably feel like you could do it – or even really want to – but seriously, don’t. It was 6 weeks before I went home, and coming back to uni was one of the hardest things ever. If I’d gone home earlier than that, I’m not sure I could have come back. Stick it out. Big adjustment!! x x
PS – can’t see the video, it says it’s not available in this country
I just checked the school calendar and fall break isn’t until the middle of October. Only a couple of days long. Then that next weekend is Family Weekend. Maybe I can handle not going home until October…
Well that’s silly. Silly TouTube! They’re both by Hillsong, “You’ll Come” and “Our God is Love”
Yes, you can definitely handle that – I think that would be a perfectly timed first break. You’re lucky to get a break part way through – we don’t!
Yeah, we have a break for three days in the middle of October, and then Thanksgiving break (also three days) the end of November, and then final exams are the second (full) week of December. If you take a January class (Interim), that starts Jan 4 and goes to the 26th, and then Spring semester starts Feb 1. Spring break is the third (full) week of March (the week before my birthday), we get Good Friday (April) off, and then finals are the end of May. I should maybe post a picture of the schedule sheet or something, haha. We have several breaks, in any case. It’s kind of nice. If you don’t take an Interim class (which I will at least once), you have an entire month off of school. Actually 6 weeks. Which is sort of crazy.
Did I really type “TouTube”? Oops.
Haha, didn’t notice the ‘TouTube’!
That system sounds good. Most unis here run October – December, Christmas break, January – April(ish), Easter break, few more weeks, summer break. But a lot have a ‘reading week’ in each semester. Mine doesn’t, and we also have a late Easter holiday, meaning we do (or did last year anyway- I imagine it will be similar this year) 11 weeks October – December without a break (and we don’t have any national holidays in that time), then exams in January, then February – late April without a break (in the UK we have a four-day weekend at Easter, but often it coincides with the school holidays so students don’t benefit from it), then exams in May, then finish. And since we don’t start until late Sept/Oct, summer is longggggggggg. Too long.
Yeah, the last two years my summer has been longer. Our elementary and highs schools finish in June, but most colleges finish in May and have summer courses in June and July (not required, but nice if you need an extra couple of credits or something). So college kids get a longer summer break most of the time. Most of us start end of August (though K in South Dakota doesn’t start til September) and go through the middle of December, and start up again in January or February and finish in May. About four months of school, a break (unless you do Jan classes, then it’s not as much of a break), and then four more months until finishing. Still ends up being a three-month summer, but it starts earlier than everyone else’s by at least a week, depending on the college. It’s kind of weird, but I’ve liked being able to tell high school kids to stop complaining about starting school because I start a week before they do. I also finish a week earlier, but… Whatever. 🙂
Hehehe, TouTube.
That means you’re going to a private, Christian university? Awesome!
I read a quote in a M. Lucado book today and thought of you.
“Let a tear appear on your cheek, and He is there to wipe it.”
Find comfort knowing God is right beside you, wiping away your tears!
Yep. Well, mostly Christian anyway… I really didn’t even want to consider very many other ones. I looked at one other school besides this one and the local community college and decided on this one based on smaller campus size (everything’s a little closer together), community, and not-mandatory chapel. I like church, but I don’t want to be forced to go and have to fill out a sheet if I miss…
So yeah. It’s smaller and the atmosphere is a little better than some of the state schools and stuff.
Thanks. 🙂