I’ve been rather quiet for the last few weeks, I’ve noticed. There’s a reason for this: I wanted to get through my first week back at school before writing about it (also because I’m ahead of my ESH schedule and don’t want to outstrip myself).

And first impressions are looking pretty good.

I still have Latin and History, and I enjoyed those two classes last semester. I’m a bit rusty in my Latin, and I need to remember just where we left off in History, but I am sure that I’ll be back in the swing of things in a few days. Besides, this is Wabash; I’m not going to give up just because I don’t understand something immediately. That’d be something DePauw students would do, and Wabash is better than DePauw.

School favoritism aside, there are other things I am involved in this semester. As always, I will be attending and reporting on Dork Club meetings (if you missed one of my blogs over break, I got some fancy new toys for the Wabash Space Marines). Also, I have enrolled in two new courses: Enduring Questions and Introduction to American Politics.

Enduring Questions (or EQ) is a discussion and writing based class where you talk about what it means to be a person and how the mind works (like a philosophy class, but not really). I love writing, and I love talking about how people think (I even psychoanalyse myself sometimes if I’m really bored), so I will enjoy that class. We all need an experience where we analyse just who we are and what our purpose in life is (spoiler: Tiger Food), and I think this will be a good experience for me.

The other class is Intro to American Politics. I can’t say a lot about this class yet, since we haven’t really done a lot, but I will say it has potential. I tend to be on the “dumb American” side of the political information spectrum, so maybe this class will give me a better perspective to how our country works and what we can do to make it better.

So, as I said in a previous blog post, I think this year is going to be good; I have a few new courses to get excited about, a few groups that I will continue to support, and other events around campus to look forward to (Like the play- I didn’t get a part, but I’ll still go). And who knows? Maybe something even better will come up and I’ll have an even better time then I imagined I would.

Yeah, this year will be good.