So while I’ve been here for two weeks now, classes only started this past Tuesday. And even though this wasn’t a full week of classes, I saw enough to be able to pour it all out in a blog post. Besides, I haven’t written anything since I left home, have I?

So right off the bat, I’ll acknowledge that Columbia is going to be a lot more work that Adelphi. I have six classes at the moment but I will drop one math class after weighing my options. I already have homeworks in three of my classes and readings for all my classes. It will probably get worse next week when the other classes start to have homework.

Professors here are nice. Though not big on office hours, they seem like friendly, helpful people. Classrooms are nice and big for the most part although my MATLAB programming class has 70 students registered but only 44 computers in the lab. Some of my friends are in classes that have way more students registered than there are seats available in the rooms. The only class where I have 100+ students is Mechanics of Solids but we have a good room that can seat everyone.

Still trying to decide on a research position. There are several available, but I can’t seem to decide which one I want. It’s a good thing we are not given cable TV access here automatically. You need to pay and sign up which will keep us away from getting service. It means no console gaming and no LOST or Battlestar Galactica, but I’ll have to deal with it. It gives me more time to get work done and to join clubs and organizations on campus.

Well, I’ll stop right here. I have to go pick up a text book and some other stuff.