Well, I've been here for a little over a week and quickly learning my around. I've already found a local produce and meat place. Where I live is on the east side of Orlando and the best way I can describe it is like grid of roads like 280 (in front of the summit) crossing every mile or so with smaller roads which run parallel to the east west roads. I am about a quarter of a mile from walmart and about 2 miles from strip mall hell. The university is 5 miles away.
This past week we completed orientation on Wedensday and Thursday, the incoming class is about 30 people big where I am the closest out of state person, geographically. Our class is composed of people from Taiwan, China, Mexico, Italy, Iran, and the States, so it has a nice international cross section. On the first day we played a game where we were divided into groups and built boats out aluminum foil to see which group could hold the most pennies. Then, sat in a classroom and learned about CREOL, filled out paperwork, lunch, and then advising in the afternoon. The next orientation we started by playing an equally nerdy mixer game which failed miserably because all the groups were able to do it, so I won't explain it. After that many professors came and talked about research that we could be apart of. Then lunch. Then done and went to get my Florida drivers license. It's been a quiet weekend. Class starts tomorrow with Wave Optics and Fundamentals of Applied Optics then Tuesday I have Fundamentals of Optical Sciences. Should be fun.
3 comments:
hey jealousy.
miss you man.
Boats made of Aluminum foil? Sounds like AP Physics. That should be fun. My this week you'll get to build cars that run on little electric motors.
A kid from Iran? He's probably going to build a laser and use it to destroy the United States. When I went to Pensacola wit Sarah, her grandmother gave me a book called "The Final Move Beyond Iraq." It said we should attack Iran before they do things like that to us.
Seriously, she did. But I don't really know what it says, because I haven't read it.
sims that sounds awesome... hope you are doing well... glad to hear you found a good meat market
Post a Comment