First Week of School

I managed to get through my first week of school! It was difficult finding all of the classrooms and buildings, but I made it to every class.....well, kind of. You see, I was banking on a certain class that would transfer back to Illinois as a biological science course and credit for my Crops and Soil Management minor. Unfortunately, they were not offering it this semester. So, in my haste to sign up for classes, I enrolled in another biological science class. To make the story short, this course conflicted with most of the other classes that I wanted to take. And since I am planning to enroll in Plant Pathology at Illinois next year, this would fulfill both of those requirements. Thus, the class I signed up for had become useless.

So, on Wednesday, I went to my adviser and sat with him while we tried to find classes that would fit into my schedule. I kept the Introductory to Agriculture because I believe that it will give me better insight into the products and methods of agriculture production in the UK, although some of the information is not new to me. I also have an International Relations course, which should very interesting and come in useful as the world continues to become more globalized, and a Management Operations class. It goes through the business and management aspects of producing goods and services; another quality class. I round out my schedule with a forestry field trip class. It only involves visiting a forest at the end of semester and looking at how trees are produced. Hey, if I show up, I get an A! So overall I think I have a pretty good schedule and look forward to the upcoming weeks. Fortunately (or unfortunately), many of the classes do not have homework. They usually have a couple of assignments here and there, but a big test at the end of the semester worth about 70% of the grade (hopefully I don't screw that up).

As a side note, I am meeting a ton of new people; and not just from Scotland. This is a very diverse university. I have joined the basketball club (which has "training" every week), the international club (because they go on trips around Scotland), and am going to join the field hockey club and the Whiskey Society. Hopefully I will be meeting a lot more people through these clubs.

Cheers!