First Week...over!

I can't believe the first week is already over...it was a whirlwind. A good whirlwind of making friends, finding my classes, getting used to teachers and basically all those things that the first week of high school is made of times one hundred. We had lectures at night about our summer reading assignment. We had an activities expo so we could figure out what sort of club sports and student organizations we wanted to join (if any) and we had class obviously. Overall I'm pretty happy with my schedule though...being at a medium sized school rather than a huge state school has its advantages. I was able to get into pretty much all the classes I wanted, and all of my classes are pretty small...about 30 kids at the most. I know that's not true for all of my friends but on average the classes are small and get the feeling you're at a smaller school. When you get out of class and see the hordes of students changing classes, then you get the "big school" feel. That's what I like most so far. The best of both worlds sort of. 

The activities expo was awesome. All of these student groups vying for YOU to become a member. The Student Republicans, the Vietnamese club, Rowing, Boardgame Club, Anime Association, Students For Green, Ultimate Frisbee Team....and pretty much everything you could think of making a club about was there with a table and candy trying to draw you to their booth. I signed up for probably 20 things...and then I'll end up going to the intro meetings of maybe 5-7 of those, and then end up sticking with 2 or 3.  That system was suggested to me by one of my OC's (orientation coordinators)....but it sounds like good logic to me. Plus I auditioned for the "Big Band" the other day and they said I had a good chance of getting in...so I'm filling up my free hours fast. Speaking of which....Gotta go to class! 

Hey Everyone. Background Post!

Hello everybody!

Im Collegiate Kate and I'm very excited to be the freshman blogger for Making it Count this year. So since this is my first post, I'll try to let you all in on some info about me (past and possible future) and try not to bore you too much in the process. 

I've got one younger sister and one older sister (middle child rocks) and the best terrier ever named Cookie. I went to a small conservative private high school in the deep south and liked it, seeing as the education there was better than that of surrounding schools, but it wasn't very diverse...at all. So when I started the college search I immediately looked at diversity as a main factor in my top choices. Now I'm enrolled in a medium sized private non-religious university in a large city (which is awesome). I love music and play the sax, piano and percussion...and its no accident that the city I'm in is a huge music hub. There have already been performances on campus by some local bands and its only the first week! And as of now I'm a history major hoping to minor in music, but that is subject to change as I am also interested in Philosophy, Languages, Literature, International Development, and Political Science. As you can see I have no idea what I want to do per se, but I have an idea about what I like as far as subjects go. 

So that's me in a nutshell...next entry will be about WELCOME WEEK. My first week at college. Oh man.

Later, 

Collegiate Kate