Over a week ago on August 15 it was time for me to head back to UCF in Orlando from my home in Panama City Beach. I was getting excited about moving back, starting a new year, and moving into my apartment, but first I had to wrap up things back home. For starters, I had to pack everything up and get it into my car; while throughly prepared for I still left home without a few things. I was in a bit of a rush, as I had planned on the day before to be my last day of work at my internship, however, around midday it was becomming clear that I needed to go into work for atleast a few hours on the following day to wrap things up. I just had to finish up what I was working on and I didnt like the idea of dumping it on someone else. So I went in that day and I planned to be out by noon, but I soon just told myself 3:00. Well after wrapping everything up I didnt leave until 3:30, and I still had to finish packing up at home. Well on the way home I stopped to say bye to my mom at work, then proceeded to finish the packing. However, that took longer than expected and my mom was home before I was out of town. I think I finally left home at 5:30 or something like that. Still, I had to meet up with a friend in town and at this point I figured I should grab dinner. So after all that I wasnt on the road until 6:15 or so. The drive itself was rather uneventful, except for almost running out of gas on the Turnpike; arriving at the Hampton Inn near UCF around 12:30 or so.
I got up the next morning a little later than I had been used to at the time and headed over to campus around 10:00AM. I figured I could check in early and I could, so there was no problem there. Moving in was rather easy, especially since I was the first one in my apartment. Of course when I unlocked my bedroom I found that it was arranged as I had hoped, so I had to get that all straightened out before I could set anything up. However, as I unpacked I realised I was short on shelf space, so over the weekend I picked up a $14 shelf at Target. Later in the day one of my roomates moved in, but did not stay as he was semi-local. The other two moved in over the weekend with the last one moving in on Sunday.
After moving in I just started to readjust back to campus life, and on Friday found myself walking around campus and eventually bumping into someone from my high school who just graduated. I spent the afternoon showing him around campus and meeting his roomates. Then there was the buying textbooks deal, which was quite expensive this semester, but I guess if you want to learn you have to pay up. Also, had to pick up a friend from Orlando International as he had not found a replacement car for the one he sold. Surprisingly, we did not have to wait around at luggage claim for his four pieces…
The first week of classes was a bit mixed up if I were to say so. I swaped from my 8:30AM Physics II class to the 10:30AM, which I had originally tried to get into, and coincidently my old roomate was also signed up for. I also dropped German, because I wanted to save a few bucks on textbooks, but after (finally) working out my plan for the next 3 years I realised I should take another class, Statics, as this will be my last “easy” semester. So that meant another expensive book I had to buy. I went to that class for the first time on Wednesday and for the Discussion class, the TA never showed up, but the Lecture seemed easy enough for now.
As for other classes I am taking Intro to Chemistry which has been quite easy so far, C Programming, which hasnt been very difficult and Differential Equations, which I know will get harder, but right now its a review of Calculus III and isnt that bad.
I saw The Invasion on Friday night, which was ok, it is just that the ending could have just been done much better. Still I was entertained for an hour and half at 1:00AM, so I dont have much to complain about. As for the rest of the weekend I was running around all over the place and finally made it to the World’s Largest/World’s Most Unique McDonald’s here in Orlando. For some reason it just didnt feel much like a McDonald’s, more like a cross breed of McDonald’s, Chuck-e-Cheese, and a non fast food establishment. I have no plan to return anytime soon, but atleast I can say I have been there.
Now, I have this upcomming week to get through which will be equally or more busy than this past week. There’s classes and homework and of course on Friday I have to run from UCF right after my Differential Equations class to the airport in order to catch a flight to Atlanta, where I have a very short connection before continuing on to Moline, Il for the labor day weekend. Should there be any weather on that Friday afternoon I can be assured that I will misconnect in Atlanta. Still with all of that, it should be a rather fun week, and I am looking forward to this upcomming weekend very much.
I will upload pictures of my new apartment sometime tomorrow and will post a link to them here….