Harvard Week 1

Not drunk yet. :)
In fact, I'm quite the prude. One of apparently few people who have a problem with alcohol, in that I'm so super adverse to the idea of consuming it. Unfortunately, I am a college freshman, and that means that everyone is hungering [thirsting?] for some illegal booze. Ah, the quirks of college life.

The first week has been pretty fine. Orientation activities have by now stopped for the most part. Just a few more loose activities left to do. In the time since I've last posted, I've been to an Arts Pageant, a Talent Show, and an a cappella performance on the first floor of my dorm. :) So perfect.
Oh, and on Wednesday, the day before classes were to start, the entire class of 2015 gathered together for Convocation--the official beginning of our college careers.

So...I guess now it's official that I'm going to Harvard?

Anyway, these last three days since classes started, I've been keeping myself pretty busy. I'm pretty set on my schedule: taking 4th year Chinese, Intro to Econ, and an intro to Linguistics, as well as a required Expos writing class. Other than that, though, I'm still taking a Beginning Japanese class and a Beginning Irish class for fun. In addition, I took a Government class [International Relations in E. Asia], a Sociology class [Race and Ethnic Relations], and three Econ classes [Econometrics, Econ of European Integration, and Keynes]. The Gov and Sociology classes were pretty nice and interesting; the gov class especially made me feel like I was back in Extemp. The econ classes were another matter entirely... Almost fell asleep during the Econometrics class and was bored out of my mind in the Euro Integration class [which was surprising; I was truly expecting that to be the better of the two classes.] Only the Keynes class was interesting out of those. So, it doesn't seem like Econ is anywhere high on my list of potential majors.

The ones that are pretty high would be: Sociology, Government, Anthropology, and Linguistics.
I went to an advising fair with tons of Peer Advisers equipped with the ability to answer all sorts of Freshmen questions about all different majors, and I have to say talking to the senior representing the Linguistics department definitely persuaded me that it may be a viable path. I'm really interested in Linguistic Anthropology--I love attempts to trace back the history of languages and its development and changes through the ages, and perhaps this may be a way I could study that and learn more about Linguistics and Cultures in general. Seems like a great deal, but I guess we'll see as things roll up.

All in all, things are going pretty well. Still haven't found a group of friends that I can be really close with. The only person who comes close would have to be Curtis, another kid from AZ. Then again, I guess it has only been the first week [only one week!] and so I can't really expect to find real friends this soon. I mean, look: it took me 3 years to build my group of high school friends--it'll take me at least a longer while to build up a group of close college friends. I just wish that finding people to sit with was easier at lunch; I've just been resorting to finding a (mostly) table and waiting for strangers to come to me so that I can eavesdrop on their conversations. :P

Probably almost time to sleep. I've been getting pretty tired late at night but not wanting to sleep.  Definitely a problem I need to rectify.