Saturday, September 11, 2010
CommuniTEE College (Part 1)
Oh look, I found this neglected blog, left on the wayside. Sorry about that. Facebook makes it so easy to post dumb things easily, and without going into to much depth, which is right up my alley.

This past June, I decided that although I was still learning stuff at home, I could learn a lot more if I started college. So that's what I did. I took my GED and enrolled at Middlesex Community College in Lowell. I'm not a full time student, maybe I will be next semester, but at this point I am only taking two classes, English and math. Those are both fairly straight forward, and I don't think I will have any problem with either of them.

On September 7th, the school had an orientation for anyone who was interested. I really wasn't interested, so I opted out and ended up going with my sister Cass and my niece to a doctors appointment in Boston. I think I made the right decision, because instead of being dragged around Lowell with a bunch of college students at 9:30 in the morning, I got to see two Big Apple Circus clowns terrify and excite a group of little kids with eye problems and giant glasses. My niece was a bit wary of the clowns, even though they were blowing bubbles, which she considers one of the greatest things ever.

Wednesday September 8th was my first day of classes. Lowell is "fixing" one of the main bridges in the city, and will be "fixing" it until 2012(!) so the 3 mile drive to school took about 40 minutes, so that was lame, but I got there on time, and that's all that matters.
Although my decision not to go to orientation seemed good at the time, there was one thing I realized I really could have learned from it, that was, of course, the location of the bathrooms. I had a moment of panic, and would have felt like a totally dweeby-n00blet asking where the bathrooms were, and luckily I found them, crisis averted. I have a two hour break between my classes, so I checked out the school library a bit and then went and sat in the park for a long time. It was beautiful, and the weather was perfect. So that was most of my first day, we didn't really learn anything in class, mostly that our cellphones needed to be off, and that textbooks are stinking expensive.
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