Upon arriving back at school after a relaxing and enjoyable 9 1/2-day long Thanksgiving break Sunday night, I received my grades for the first quarter. While I was pleased to find that I received an A in Microeconomics, the course about which I was concerned the most, I received an AB (Somewhere between 89% and 92%) in my Composition class. I found this a bit odd, seeing as my professor told me toward the end of the quarter that I was one of his best writers and he seemed to like the compositions I had written. Oh well…I won’t complain too much. If the only non-A I received was in Composition – a general education class – then I can’t be doing too poorly.

Monday, my new set of classes began. I had Differential Equations and Technical Composition. Despite the fact that everyone says Diff Eq. is quite difficult, I don’t think it will be extraordinarily challenging, as I’ve always excelled in Mathematics courses. I went to Technical Composition at 4pm on Monday and when I saw all that we’re going to do this quarter (actually, it’s more the types of things we have to do, as opposed to the quantity) and that gave me somewhat of a bad perspective on this entire quarter for school in general. I think if it weren’t for that class, my quarter would go fairly well. Not that I like my other classes a whole lot, but I think they’re going to be bearable. I have a new teacher for HU-100 (Contemporary Issues in the Humanities) and though this class sounds like it’ll be a lot like high school classes, I think I can get through it without too much difficulty. I went to the first lecture of my Physics of Mechanics course yesterday and it was extremely boring – I don’t think it’s a good thing to judge the entire quarter of a course based on the activities of the first day. We discussed SI units or something like that and how to convert between different measurements – all this basic stuff that has been covered in several courses of mine in the past. Since I already took Physics in high school, I think much of this course will be review, but will use Calculus, as opposed to the basic math we used in high school Physics. Lastly, I’ve got CS-285, Data Structures. Dr. Rothe seems to be a good professor – he already involved the class quite a bit in discussion yesterday. Also, the topics covered within this course don’t appear to be too difficult, so I should enjoy that class.

Some of you may have heard of my “cancerous” cell phone. Well, Monday I received a package with a replacement phone. I charged the phone, but when I hit the power button, it wouldn’t turn on. I finally got the phone to turn on using a different method, but have determined that the END/Power button is bad – I made a phone call but when I pushed END, nothing happened. That explains why I couldn’t turn it on either. Oh well, I’ll make a call to Sprint sometime and see what I need to do to get this issue resolved. Do you realize that that’s my third phone … all THREE have had problems. The first phone’s power jack for recharging broke after about a week, the second got the “BLOB,” and the third’s power button doesn’t work. Maybe my fourth phone will work properly.

Well I’ve got some stuff I should do this morning before my 12pm Physics Lab.