A New Hope

Things are going well up here. I arrived late so we did a rush job of unpacking and such, but it was all good. My roommate wanted to move to Kollens to be near the tennis courts (huge tennis player), so he did that Saturday, so I have my own room for the time being. I am having fun on the "geek floor" (I use that term with endearment because I definitely fit in) of Voorhees (our motto so far? "Guys on top. Daaang."). It is pretty nice on the third floor. AC would be appriciated, but the awsome double bladed fan I found at target is doing a good job of keeping me cool. Sleeping has been rather rough, my ears are ringing every night. I would guess it is because the music here is so loud and constant. We have already had two concerts with another tonite, and the noise is constant. It isn't like rural Ohio where I can go in my backyard at night with only the bugs and animals to listen to. The food was really good but took a noticable downward trend as soon as the parents left and there was no-one left to impress.
I can't count the number of times we have heard about Hope being a dry campus and all of the bad things that will happen to you if you touch alchohol. It is getting kind of ridiculous.
The people here are amazing. We have our obligatory partiers, but that is basically just third floor Durfee and Kollen (pre-frat freshmen and jocks, respectively). I have been hanging out with the guys on my floor as well as a few cool kids from other dorms. We swap music files, play Mario Kart, eat and the like. The atmosphere is so weird. You can tell the guys and girls here who are expecting to find thier lifelong love, and who think they can find them before classes start tomorrow. Silly people. There are SO many more girls than guys up here. 60% 40%. I know that doesn't sound like that much, but it is really noticable. Everyone is so nice too, and we can talk about really personal issues really easily.
I just went to an info session on the swimming/ diving team, and I want to do it so bad, it is such a great team with a legend of a coach. I am trying not to overcommit...
Classes start tomorrow, and I am very excited about that. I have 17 credit hours right now, and if I can find a way to drop one that would be nice. 16 is what I want. My freshman seminar is going to be really fun, no homework except to make a documentary, in class is just discussion of newspaper fronts, and 30 hours of community service. Community service in the campus radio station, campus paper, or campus tv station. I am so excited for that. I had an audition today for jazz combo, and I think that went really well. The professor at first had me adding jazz ensembles until I was up to 18 credits, but that is WAY too much. I now have jazz piano lessons, a jazz combo, as well as music theory and its labs. Then I have multivariable calculus and my physics class, Black Holes and General Relativity. This one gets me REALLY excited. I also got a job today. 2.5 hours a week TAing with an algeabra based physics lab, 4 hours a week doing nuclear physics research. I love my life. I don't have free time but I love it.

My song is love
Love to the lovely song
And it goes on
You don't have to be alone
Your heavy heart
Is made of stone
And it's so hard to see you clearly
You don't have to be on your own
You don't have to be on your own

And I'm not gonna take it back
And I'm not gonna say I don't mean that
You're the target that I'm aiming at
Take my message home

My song is love
My song is love, unknown
But I'm on fire for you, clearly
You don't have to be alone
You don't have to be on your own

And I'm not gonna take it back
Oh I'm not gonna say I don't mean that
You're the target that I'm aiming at
And I'm nothing on my own
Got to get that message home

And I'm not gonna stand and wait
Not gonna be there until it's much too late
On a platform I'm gonna stand and say
That I'm nothing on my own
And I love you, please come home

My song is love, is love unknown
And I've got to get that message home