My First Week

Hey everyone!!

Well I just completed my first actually school week. It was...interesting. It is very different than what I am used to. Most people take two 6 credit classes plus their core seminar. I am taking one 12 credit class and my core seminar. My core seminar starts next week. So this week I only had 6 hours of actual in-class time. Four hours are spent in tutorials which are student lead, professor guided discussion consisting of 16 students. The other two hours are spent in a lecture. It may not seem like a lot of class time, and its not, but the amount of work we have to do outside of class is ridiculous. As a student you are given a substantial amount of free time, most of which is spent working. I have been placed in a group which I will stay with for the next 8 weeks. This week was considered an easy week. We were assigned a project on tuesday to be presented friday (today) morning. Our project focused on the Millennium Development Goals for Latin America and the Caribbean regions. We spent a solid amount of time and produced what I think was a pretty good presentation this morning. For next friday my group has to write a ten page paper and do a presentation on colonization/decolonization of Zambia in addition to 300 pages of reading for tuesday! Oh well, I guess Im gonna have to find a comfy chair somewhere.

I think there will be an little bit of an adjustment period to this new style of learning and it certainly is going to be interesting. The group dynamics are very interesting. My group is great, which is always nice. My group consists of a Welshman, a girl from London, a Dutch man and women, and a French lady. The conversations are quite entertaining.

Anyways, you guys don't have to worry, I am not working too hard. I leave for Amsterdam tomorrow morning! So that should be awesome.

That is all I got for right now, thanks for reading and GO NINERS!!!!