Second/First Day of Class
I did the Wii Fit again this morning! However, it decided that I lost two pounds and my age was 26 years old. Goodness! I have found that doing Wii Fit in the morning invigorates me for the day ahead. When I was getting ready for class afterward, I was more alert and active than when I normally wake up at 8:00am!
I left at 10:00 to go to my 11:15 class. I'm just so paranoid about the parking! I got there an hour early for my class. Yes...it took me 15 minutes to drive to campus, find a parking spot, and get up the hill to Torg. However, I did have reading to do for class tomorrow, so I started reading that. Then it was time for Global Economy and World Politics...okay...so this class. It was interesting on so many different levels. Let's just start with what happened before class began. I was one of the first in the room, and selected to sit three rows up, and one over from the middle aisle, so I didn't have to sit right on the aisle. As the auditorium filled up, a guy, who was clearly in the corp will all his army garb on, asked me if he could sit next to me (the seat on the aisle). I told him that was just fine. Then he asked me if I was okay. Did I appear that excited about the class?! I told him I was just fine. He then proceeded to ask me my name, major, where I'm from, my favorite music...I don't mean to be rude or anything, and I wasn't to him, but I don't really small talk to people in class. I really just want to get through the class and then leave. It just seemed weird, having him talk to me. AND he thought I was a freshman. He was. Then throughout class he kept asking me if I was okay. I'm not sure if he is just a really nice person, or if he was trying to hit on me. I don't know, but it was a little creepy. Especially since I kept seeing him stare at me out of the corner of my eye. I tried to think of a way to mention Kevin without me being obvious that I was mentioning that I had a boyfriend...I don't know. I never get "hit" on or whatever he was doing.
Now, the next thing about this class is the professor. He yells, and is very...excited about his lectures. He mentioned something about how buying a big house with tons of square footage is a bad idea, and someone wanted to argue that. The teacher paused then continued on with his lecture. When he got to a stopping point, he turned to the guy and said, never speak up in my lectures again! Eek! Also, he likes to walk up and down the aisles and rows just shouting away! He is very...expressive. He just makes me want to hide under my desk and sneak out the back. It'll be an interesting semester.
After class I went down to Squires to meet up with Stephanie (my pledge sis!) to have lunch. She was in Disney World last semester doing Engineering stuff down there. Awesome.
Then we went up to McBryde and I went to Severe Weather class! This class is awesome because the person who headed the Storm Chase I went on in May is teaching it, and everyone who went on the trip that goes to VT is in the class. It should be pretty awesome.
As I am typing this, I just found out there was a murder in the graduate life center on campus...
How awful. However I have gotten no alerts about it other than what I saw on vt.edu and I found out from twitter.
Praying.
~Taylor~
Update:
VT just upset #1 Wake Forest. The twitter search on "Virginia Tech" is very excited and upsetting. Crazy confused.
@iam_spartacus puts it well in this tweet.