The One with the First Day

Yesterday was my first day of classes. First was Sociological Theory II, the one that I didn't take by choice but had to take because it's what they're doing this semester at Keele. My professor for this class is called Brad Nash, which makes me think he should be a country singer. It started with him just going over the course syllabus and textbook, and talking about the assessment methods.

We then left, and I went to my next class which was US Latin American Relations in Old Belk Hall with Rene Horst. He grew up in Argentina so he knows his stuff. We did pretty much the same thing, going over the course outline and then we watched a video about Latinos in North Carolina. It was set in a town called Siler City, which has a reputation of being very conservative, and they have strong views on immigration. Horst is a weird character, but I think this class should be fun as well.

Next I went for lunch, and then went to the library to print off some things. I then had History of North Carolina with Karl Campbell. This was an eye opener. He did some demographics of the class by asking us to raise our hands. When he asked all the democrats to raise their hands, there were three of us. When he asked all the people who were pro-choice to raise their hands, there were about seven of us. When he asked how many of us were atheist or agnostic, there were two of us. I don't know why I found this so surprising, I guess I just thought there was going to be more diversity being at university. This class was also fun, but I think it will be quite challenging.

I went back to my room, went for dinner with Meagan, Liz and Cody, then came back and took my garbage to the trash compactor. We watched some TV before going to bed.