It's a Brand New Day

Today is Saturday on the first weekend since the semester started. This semester is going to be a lot different from the first one. Namely, I get up earlier and it appears I will have fewer easy As in comparison. I have space between my classes now, except on Thursdays when I will head straight from my Design class to Honors Inquiry, both of which will likely bore me before too long.

One thing I've noticed about college that really sets it apart from high school is that classes here always dive right in. After the first week of all brand new classes in high school, you still had not done a single thing regarding the classes themselves with the possible exception of having gone over the disclosure. Some classes you hadn't gotten that far. Especially seminary. When the school started beginning on Wednesdays for same inane reason, if you had seminary on a B day you wouldn't have actually gone to class by the time the week was over thanks to the first day assembly that they always had. Up here, first day of class you get handed the syllabus and then here we go. I've already learned actually subject material in all my classes, even the ones I've only had once. Not to say I'm enjoying all of them. My manufacturing class was a bore from day one. I so wish that was not a required course for my major otherwise I'd be dropping it faster than..... Ok, I don't really have a dropping analogy. You'll just have to think up your own.

Speaking of my manufacturing class, I'm really annoyed about the book I was required to buy for it. It's called "The Goal" and if it doesn't get here soon I'm not going to have enough time to read it before I'm supposed to have it done by (I have to finish by Friday and the estimated arrival date is not until Tuesday.... at the earliest.... ugh) so I may end up spending Thursday combing the city for a copy and then staying up all night to read it. *sigh* what really annoys me about it was that the book was not on the list of books we would need for the class before Christmas break started. I order all my books online back then so that I would not have the kind of problems I am now of needing a book that has not arrived in the mail yet. What further annoys me is that I paid for the expedited shipping on half.com for this book, hoping that would get it here faster. That cost me $5. I paid normally shipping on amazon.com (about $1.50) for a flash drive for my design class that I ordered the day after I ordered the book. I got the flash drive today. That really pisses me off. It seems my desire to get a better deal price wise by ordering off of half.com might result in costing me even more by having to find for, pay for, and read in far too short a time an additional copy of the book. So much for trying to be thrifty. Oh well I suppose. Not much else I can about it for the time being. Maybe I'll check for Sparknotes, just in case.

EDIT: Sweet, got the book. My roommate came in at 9:30 saying I had a package in the Lundstrum (sp?) center. I have no idea how long it had been there but I least I have it now. I'll have to read about 60 pages a day in order to finish it in time though. If I had known I needed before Christmas break I could have ordered it then and read it during the break which would have been the much preferred option.

EDIT 2: Oh my gosh. Professor just moved it back a week. Great. All that stress for no good reason.