Second First Day
Since Tuesday bring a whole new set of classes, it was my second first day!
I left the house at 7:10 to park at work to walk over to the bus stop. When I left the house it was flurrying. I get the next street over and it comes down even harder, I get to work and it is blizzard like. Walking to the bus stop I walked about two steps from my car and my front was covered with snow! I kept brushing it off, but it would just pile back on, so instead I decided to focus on keeping the snow away from my face so I could see. I finally made it to the semi-cover of the bus stop and waited for the Tom's Creek A bus to come. The warmth of the bus when it finally came was very appreciated. And there was only about three other people on the bus that early so I had my pick of seats! The bus ride was very interesting. Especially because it was snowing so hard and it was all over the road...I thought for sure the bus would hit a bad spot and go spinning out of control. It didn't luckily. The bus changes routes to go around the drill field at nine, since it was before then, we took the long route around campus then back on the drill field. I didn't need to get off until the very last stop of the route so I got the scenic tour of the edge of Virginia Tech in the snow! On the way we passed a guy walking around in SHORTS...it was in the 20s and snowing. HELLO?! No. I also got to see Parking Services in action. It was practically blizzard conditions and this parking service lady was going to give this guy a ticket no matter if it was going to be soaked by the snow! They don't ticket in the rain, why is snow any different? Poor guy. We finally got to Torgersen, my stop, so I had to face the snow again. This time for not as long. I got into McBryde and celebrated the warm air!
I easily found the class room and settled into a seat, and what luck when I saw that the desks had plugs attached to them! I had been worried about how my macbook would last through five classes. Class started and we discussed what families were, it is Family Relationships, so that made sense that would be the first topic. Then she explained genograms. It's a more in depth version of a family tree. With lines that stand for how the relationships between the family members are. She had an example version up and had us all guess about what happened with the family. The dad was distant from his parents, but the mom was very close to her parents, but her mom was dead. Then the dad was close to his son, there was a riff between him and his middle daughter, and he was distant from his youngest daughter, where the mom was close to the son and youngest daughter and very close to the middle child. The mom and the dad had grown distant from each other. It's hard to get without the picture, but we basically got creative and starting saying how maybe the dad had an affair and the mother found out, but the son wasn't too upset about it, and that is why the dad and him stayed close, but the girls sided with the mother so that is why there were issues with the dad. OR, the mom had an affair, and while the son is the dad's, the two girls are actually from another relationship and the dad suspects. Some crazy things came from it. Eventually, toward the end of the discussion, she confessed it was her family genogram. Everyone seemed to all go, "oops" at once. I think the class will be interesting, so I'm excited about it. Which is good for an 8 am!
We got out 30 minutes early, so I sat around waiting for Mountain Geography. It was cold out in the hall with everyone opening the door coming out and in. By the looks of the people coming in, it was still snowing. I'm excited about Mountain Geography because I love the mountains! Nothing too interesting happened in that class. We went over the syllabus and and an introduction to the course. We got out really early in that class too.
I headed over to my next class, still all in McBryde. The teacher seems VERY interesting. He's the old kind of funny...if that makes sense. First off, NEVER be late to his class, he says it about a bazillion times in the syllabus, funny thing is people kept coming in late and he'd say "we were just discussing punctuality." Awesome thing about his class...four exams, he drops the lowest grade. So if you do well on the first three, you don't have to take the final! That is definitely my goal! Plus he gives you extra point questions as long as you fill your student ID out right on the scantron for exams. Oh, this class is Sociology. So it should be quite interesting. We also filled out this Sociology IQ quiz that the teacher had made up. I made a little survey here if you'd like to fill it out and see how you do! It is completely anonymous, so don't worry if you think I'll make fun of you or anything for your answers! :) We got out early in that class too! He is so concerned about punctuality that he said if he is ever two minutes late, we can leave immediately. Cool :)
I headed over to Squires...first time back outside since the snow storm. It was sunny out, but still very windy and cold, and most of the snow seemed to have blown away or melted. I got a seat in a decent sized auditorium in Squires, it was pretty empty, but that did not last long. Practically every seat was filled. Nothing exciting happened. So, blah about that. Haha. It was over early, naturally, and I waited for my lunch date (Amanda) at the couches. Lynn ended up kicking my toe! OW! Amanda then showed up and we headed over to the bus stop to be super lazy to go to West End, a dining hall on the other side of campus. We ran into Jenn on our way, and while we were talking I noticed Tyrod Taylor was waiting for the bus too. Amanda is IN LOVE with Tyrod Taylor. It's like our own little campus celebrity siting! We were waiting for the Hokie Express, but we saw him get on the CRC bus, which let off the same stop we were going to get off at anyway. Amanda sent a text message to about everyone she knows that she was on a bus with Tyrod Taylor. He was with about three other football players too. We couldn't figure out who they were. They got off at the same stop we did, but went into their dorm and we went into West End.
Lunch was fantastic. Spaghetti with meat sauce, garlic bread, and a strawberry smoothie. West End's smoothies are SOOOOO GOOOD! Believe me. If you don't, go get one! Kevin surprised me by showing up! His glass got out majorly early so he came over to West End! Amanda decided she wanted to have a graphing calculator for our Statistics class since he said we had to have it for the first class, so we all went down to the bookstore. She got her calculator, and we hoped on the bus to go back over to Litton Reeves, Kevin got off at Burruss for his last class.
Statistics wasn't too exciting either. I was just extremely glad when it was over 25 minutes early. Kevin was nice enough to take Amanda and I to my car on his way out!
So, it was an exhausting day...and very long.
And now AMERICAN IDOL IS ON!!! :)
~Taylor~