I finally got around to a schedule that I’ll be dealing with for the rest of the semester. Though classes officially began on the 21st of August, there were a bunch of class changes and screw-ups on almost everyone’s schedule. Most people changed so they could be with their pals; others changed because they were in the wrong classes, and the rest changed simply because they could. This is no surprise; it’s second nature by now to schools that screw-ups and class changes will occur. And if a school year goes by where something to that nature does not happen… well, that school is either 1: not in the US or 2: not a school, period.
As for me, I changed because I got put in the wrong physics lab, and that’s it — no other changes. Now I have a schedule that will most extremely likely not change. Check it out:
Monday/Wednesday/Friday
Phys 121 (general physics): 9:00 - 9:50am
Math 132 (calculus II): 10:50 - 12:05pm
Eng 111 (english): 1:00 - 1:50pm
Monday/Wednesday
Fencing: 7:00 - 8:00pm
Monday
Japanese II: 3:15 - 5:30pm
Tuesday
Phys 121R (recitation): 2:00 - 4:00pm
Thursday
Phys 121L (lab): 6:30 - 9:00pm
Well, that’s the gist of it. I love college life, it’s so much better than that linearly-designed 7-8-hours-a-day high school BS that you have to go through. Here, it’s more dynamic and flexible… and I like dynamic and flexible 
(no innuendo intended). For the most part, I’m trying to get the required and general-education classes done and over with, before I start taking courses toward my major, which will not be ’til next semester. 
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Posted August 14, 2008
Wow… That’s a lot of Physics in a week. I have 5 hours of Physics a week (3 hour lecture on Wednesday mornings, 09:00 - 12:00; 2 hour practical on Monday afternoons, 13:20 - 15:20) and that bores the hell out of me. Although I suppose if that’s what you hope to major in then it is useful. Today in Physics my teacher was away so we had to watch a video on Google videos of a MIT professor doing a lecture on circular motion… zzzzzzzz! And what’s with the ridiculous times on Thursday? Finishing at 21:00? That would really piss me off… such an inconvenient time.
Fencing sounds good though. It’s quite a major sport in Hungary, but I never did it. I did Kobudo instead and particularly concentrated on the Nito-Ken technique. I learnt some essential Japanese words with that too