We're in the middle of a heatwave right now and it is toooo daaaaamn hot. Luckily my family bought an air conditioner back in May when they were still relatively cheap, and we set it up yesterday. It's located right behind my chair -- My desk is beside the sliding door, which is the only window in the main living area. So if I get too hot I can literally swivel around and stick my face in front of it. When I got home yesterday I stood in front of it for a few minutes letting the air blow up the front and back of my shirt. It felt NIIIIIICE.
So, yeah, I have nothing to do today. It's a bit weird since I've been pretty busy lately, but nice. But also boring. I feel the need to go out and do stuff.
I feel the need to go wander around SFU some more to get acclimatized. But it'd be useless in a way. Y'know? But it's like ever since my excursion up there a few days ago, my excitement about university has fired up again. Now I can imagine me BEING an SFU student, and... yep. Fired up.
My enrollment appointment time is 3:30 PM on July 12 (Monday). It's a pretty good time; Monday is the first day you can register. I'm not toooo worried about getting the classes I want, except for the languages. Here, I'll show you a comparison:
GERM102 or JAPN200 : 25
HIST151 : 102
HSCI120 : 120
GEOG162 : 150
PHYS190 : 216
So, yeah, y'know, only about 4-8 times larger class sizes. Whatever.
I've been talking to my friends about classes and they all say, "Take 4, take 4, take 4." But... I'm stubborn. lol I asked an upperclassman friend if I was crazy to take 5 and here's what she said:
"I took five courses first time, you won't die horribly. It won't be easy, though; you'll definitely be diving in head-first. If they're all courses you really want to take, though, I'd say go for it. If you'd rather ease in slowly/at a more regular pace, then take four. Five is definitely manageable, but it can be a lot if you're not used to it.
Just don't take three 200-level courses right off the bat like I did. That's the only thing you really shouldn't do."
(Copypasted from Facebook)
And I mean grade 12 year, a lot of them called me crazy for taking all academic courses (my least academic class ironically called Academic Reading & Writing). But I got through that just fine. So, yeah, I'm going to stick with 5. If it turns out to be a bad idea, I'll just take 4 in the spring.
I just did a search of the textbooks I'll need for fall.
USE campusbooks.com!! Seriously this thing is nifty. You enter what books you need and it tells you the lowest price they're being sold at various different online retailers. I entered in all the textbooks I'll need (through excavation for course outlines -- there's only 1 class that doesn't have one, HSCI120, so I just used the book that was used for the last 2 times it was taught) and it told me where they're being sold the cheapest. It has 'cheapest overall' or 'one-stop cheapest' options. Cheapest overall for me is $261.19 including shipping. Not bad for 7 textbooks. The most expensive is the one for HSCI120, so I kiiiind of hope that's not the textbook that's being used this term. I hope that the book that was used in Fall 2008 is used, because the cheapest price for that one is $3.62 instead of $103.10.
So, I'll put the theme for Day 8, which is a picture that makes me mad/sad.
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