Semester 3: Week 1

It is official, I have completed my first week of my third semester! Amen! The first week is always the easiest and the hardest all at the same time.

It is easy in that you have less to study and generally the first class is shorter, and mainly just a "getting to know everyone" session. It is hard in that you have to find your classes, and that is not as easy as it sounds! One would think that this being my 3rd semester I'd know where the classrooms are by now...One would think!

The problem is that some classes were renumbered, and then the first floor of Campus North (the graduate part of campus that houses: seminary, law school, counseling and a few other grad areas) is a maze (honestly, that is how it is described by EVERYONE)! So finding your way around is not always easy. I know where all the 1800 classrooms are.

The seminary has a hallway (actually 2 hallways now!) on the 2nd floor and they are long corridors, and easy to navigate, all the classrooms are on one side! So that is nice, but a few were redone and renumbered, but still easy to find.

It was my other two: room 1615 (for pre-marital/marital counseling) and room 1745 (for counseling 501-ethics of counseling). I gave myself enough time to find them, which is good. I figured that 1500 is down on one end, and the 1800's are in The Maze, so the 1600's and 1700's would be to, that just makes sense, right?

Well, twas not the reality. It appears that they are both in the Law School! And to get to the LS you have to go outside and around the building. Not all that bad, but here is the kicker- all law students and faculty can open the doors into the law school! You have to have an electronic card to unlock the doors (due to accreditation reasons and the fact that they have SUPER nice classrooms!). Plus, they are strict about their dress code. So 2 days a week I get to wear skirts and nice shirts (which I don't mind, I just don't have very many that will work...so I need to invest in some more suit type clothing). So, to get into the building you have to hope someone with access is there!

So that was my first week! All in all it went pretty well. I like the profs and I think the material will be interesting. I love my schedule!!! It is a dream schedule, so I'm excited. I hope that everyone had a great week.

Have a blessed weekend!

-JLK/PRT-