So, exciting news: school started. Again. It’s funny how ever since you turn about 5 years old, you start going to school. Then you basically stay in an institution for at least the next 12/13 years. And for a lot of us, we go onto more schooling past this in hopes of being given better opportunities or just more time to learn about what we love. It’s funny though, because ever since I can remember, the first day of school, no matter what, has always been a day that holds a lot of anxiety for me; good and bad. I anticipate what my classes are going to turn out like, but at the same time I know it’s going to be a lot of work ahead. Unbelievably (or maybe very believably), we only have the first day of class about 12-20 times depending how long you go to school for. I’m probably going to see about 18 first days of classes.
Here’s a picker of a hall in the Asa Packard building on Lehigh’s campus. I currently go to Lehigh University and today was the first day of the fall semester in my junior year. I’m studying Computer Engineering at the moment, so most of my classes revolved around electric engineering and computer science.
This is one of the classrooms I was in today. It’s fairly basic with desks, a chalkboard, and a projector. I actually took all of these pictures much after when all the classes on campus end. Didn’t want to take a picture during class in fear of getting reprimanded by my professors. Had my first CSE 216 (Software Engineering) lecture here today. Software Engineering – doesn’t seem like too bad of a class.
Had a lab in this room today, but the door was locked. Electronic Circuits lab. Lots of expensive equipment in this room, so I can understand why they lock it up.
Lehigh is currently building a new “STEPS” building, which stands for “Science, Technology, Environment, Policy & Society.” I think it’s going to be mainly an environmental science building with multidisciplinary stuff in it as well. Constructions been ongoing since my Sophomore year. They sure have been taking their sweet time finishing it.
This is the inside of Maginnes Hall. It’s where the Modern Languages all are. It’s where my Japanese teacher’s office is. I have had quite a few of my engineering classes in here though – I guess it’s just convenient to put the classes here cause it has a lot of rooms. I had my Electronic Circuit’s lecture in this building today.
Almost all of these seats were filled when class was going on. This is on the bottom floor of Maginnes. It’s actually underneath the floor of the picture previous to this one.
Some notes that were left on the board. Easy math is the best math. Unfortunately I doubt all the concepts will be explained this easily for my Electronic Circuits class. Thevenin-Norton equivalency? Mehh. Hmm, so yeah – since I’m in college, I actually haven’t been to all of my classes yet. Tomorrow I will pretty much see what the rest of my classes are like. Except for Japanese. Unfortunately I have a time conflict with Japanese, so I have a lab on Mondays that overlaps with my Japanese class. That means every Monday, I miss my Japanese class. I won’t have it until Wednesday now. It’s one of the few classes I really like to go to though. So what’s everyone else’s experience with their first days of classes? Do you hate it? Enjoy it? Impartial? For me, the anxiety quickly passes and I try to get momentum into the semester since I know I still have 15 weeks left.
