h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

...Well not really.... It's just an interesting title...

Well I had an eventful week. I’m such aloner….or so it seems. Thank goodness I have you all.

I’ll start at the beginning. The whole college thing started very badly for me. When I woke up on Tuesday morning I felt so sick, just from being nervous about it. I was so screwed from the start… Monday had been a holiday and so I thought that that was Sunday and that the first day of school was a Monday. Wrong! It was Tuesday. On Mondays my first class is 11:30, but on Tuesdays my first class is 9:30!!! Well it’s a good thing that L and I had decided to go down early and look around a bit first. I was sitting in the parking lot when suddenly I realized my horrible mistake!!! I had already missed the first 15 mins of my first class ever at college… darned anthropology. I decided I still had to go though, so I walked as fast as I could to the class. My legs felt like they were going to collapse under me and I really just wanted to collapse on the pavement and have a good cry and perhaps a phone call to a friendly voice. But crying in a heap on the ground isn’t really my thing in public, and I didn’t have enough money for a long distance call…so off to class it was. By the time I got there I was about 20 mins late! it was quite terrible.

Things went better from there on. Math was my next class and I sat behind some guy who was quite sure he knew me from somewhere. That was nice, even if I hadn’t a clue who he was at least it was someone to talk to. Then was biology, didn’t make any friends there...but the class seems interesting. Then I had English and that was the class of the day. I met a nice person there, but unfortunately he wasn’t there for the next class so I think that hes dropped it…. But that’s alright because I met someone else who seems nice enough.

All in all I have no new friends. So I’m a total loner. Strangely enough that doesn’t seem to bother me as much as it would have in the past. I’m getting used to eating lunch by myself and just doing homework or whatever. Classes are nice though, I like them all except biology in terms of people. In anthropology I sit with this girl, W, and she looks and sounds like my cousin so much that its crazy! ..well if my cousin had blond hair…but that’s besides the point. In math I’m now sitting beside that that guy who thinks he knows me from somewhere… hes really quite nice, hes going to the hospital this weekend because his says hes malnourished… he says he just doesn’t ever feel hungry. Oh…. That’s off topic. I like my philosophy class because I’ve now found someone to sit with, she graduated from the same school as me a few years ago.

So all in all everything seems fine, and I’m adjusting to its unusualness.

I love you all!
…and have plans to come on more often. But we’ll see about that.

My mom is having a party and I have to go and greet guests now. Rats. I’ll be back

~*~All in all I have no new friends.~*~

Well it's your first /day/ (or close to it), so you can't expect to have any yet.

~*~He says he just doesn’t ever feel hungry.~*~

Well I'm certainly no doctor, but I'm pretty sure that if he just ate a little more his body would stop thinking it was in famine and then he'd be hungrier.
*shrug* But what do I know.

~*~I like my philosophy class~*~

Yay! Philosophy!

What's it like?! Tell me all!

Hi Hon. I know I haven't been around much lately (if you even remember me - I think you've given me a at least once) But I saw this and just had to say have fun and goodluck , s, and s.

Sometimes it is better being slow to make friends. The ones you do make then are probably better. It is early days yet. Get stuck in to the work and the rest will come.

I did feel for you so much, about your first day nerves, and the mistake about the day. Easily done, but not an out and out disaster. At some stage you will look back at all your worries and see that you coped, and that it wasn't so bad after all. Such setbacks give you strength in the long run. Trust me, I've been there.

Have some and Hope the party went ok and you had some fun. At least you have a home to return to, and Moms have their uses

we are here to talk to if you need us. Good news or bad, we can listen if nothing else.

Websailor

At least you dont have to stop every conversation you have to wave or say hi to someone you know.

My advice would be... find another loner.

Well sounds like an interesting week.

Don't worry bout the friends thing. You'll meet people and get to eat lunch with people soon. Usualy takes people a bit to get into tghe way of it. One thing I noticed at uni was that everyone seemed to sit it pretty much the same place in all the classes, so you'll get to know those who sit near you, and seminars are good for meeting a smaller number of people too.

Man Ive met so many new people and theyre not even calling me Rob. Ive also become Harvey and Jack.

Ah, first day of college, I remember it well...Seems like you actually are making some friends already, ie those people you seem to sit with all the time.

Interesting course selection...

hello all! thanks for taking an interest

dont worry hellboundforjoy! i do remember you! have annother while i'm at it...

hello apollyon i dont think i've ever met you before have i? if i have i'm terribly sorry for forgetting... if i havent then its nice to meet you

as for my interesting course selection.... well some of it isnt what i would have liked to take. i'm required to take the math course, and i'm only taking anthropology because its something that fit with my schedule. actually.... i have a problem with anthropology.... i hate it! well not hate hate.... its just that i find it boring and the teacher is really vague with what he wants for assignments so i have no idea what hes actually looking for. i want to drop it, but i dont think my parents would like that and also i think i might feel like a failure... so thats a small dilemma for me to work my way through.

for all. and anything else you'd all like to snack one. personally i'm going to have a little
thanks for the encouraging words

Swap subjects for something else.

I agree with Job.

well i'd love to... but theres a problem with that. first i'd have to find something that fits into my schedule, and then i'd have to go and ask that professor if i could be allowed into their class at this late date. chances are they'd say no if only because there are other people waiting to be let into that class and are on the list way ahead of me....

Well that sucks.

Yeah. I remember with my course you were only allowed to swap modules within the first 2 weeks of term. Makes sense I supose to have a cut off point.

All my friends have swapped and dropped so much I'm all on my own now.

it totally does suck.

i'm sorry to hear that job. i'll come be in your classes with you
at least i'm making friends in my classes. today in math my friend s shared his cimmamon bun with me it was so tasty. and in anthropology i seem to have made a friend...although i dont know how... and it turns out my one of the people i sit with in english is also in my philosophy class so that means i dont have to sit alone or with that very loud girl
so asside from anth i would say its all going quite well

s to all

I'm sure I'm not meant for full time education. I'm so miserable here. I don't know why, most of the classes are fun and the people are ok. I dont even mind having to walk up and down four flights of stairs to get from lesson to the next but I don't know, I guess I just like seeing the world without bleary eyes.

Ah well, i'll survive I guess.

i could handle full time education very well if it was like a full time job, but its not. i mean no one would ask you to work the hours that you have to do for school. its just stupid. think about it. full time jobs are like 9-5 five days a week...but school is just aweful. you go 5 days a week and when you're at home on week days you're usually doing homework in the evenings and on weekends you end up doing alot of school work too. its just rediculous.

i'm having trouble with it too. i dont seem to have time to do anything fun at all, maybe a small amount of hootoo while i try and do some homework...but other than that... no fun for me.

but we'll both survive

Do you not get free time in between classes? I know I did when I was at uni.

Im at 6th form (college) but I have 1 hour a day free.