Second Week

So I’ve managed to survive not only frosh week, but also the first week of school.  Frosh was great fun, with junkyard wars and scavenger hunts.  We even built a reasonably complicated Rube Goldberg machine involving (among other things) a smashed vacuum cleaner, a giant tire, and a mop.

The first week of school was OK, although there are a lot of hours spent in a classroom (30 a week).  We’ve already been assigned more work than pretty much an entire month in high school, but that was expected.  So far its all easy, but practicing my engineering lettering seems like a waste of time.  I think the worst thing so far is the need to run a virtual machine of Windows XP for programming assignments and to access the course websites (it freezes Firefox and Opera, and Konqueror just shows a big black box).  Oh well.  All in all, it looks like an alright time (just need to find some stuff to do in Waterloo).