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Back to school!
Sorry everyone it has been so long since I have last written a blog, but finals week pretty much swamped me, and by the end I was looking forward to my long break. Which wasn't that long; 3 weeks is a relatively short amount of time by college break standards. But there is an upside to such a short break - I got to come back to JMU that much sooner! During break I spent a lot of time with the family. I don't really visit home at all during the semester so I make sure to hang out with my mom and dad when I'm at home. I also saw a lot of friends. It's always nice to see those old friends from high school and catch up on all the old times. Besides that, I worked or hung out with my girlfriend. It was a pretty relaxing break. Oh yeah! I forgot one thing, I went to the Capital One Bowl in Orlando for the day! It was really nice to go from 40 degree VA to 80 degree Orlando. And I got some pretty amazing seats, 20 rows back from the 40 yard line. It was a good game between Auburn and Wisconsin, and I was glad I was sitting on the winning side of Wisconsin!
But I'm glad I'm back. Classes started and it is looking to be a very promising year. I'm taking some really interesting Geography classes and one awesome elective. This past Monday I had two classes, Advaned Remote Sensing with Michaela Buenemann. She is one of the new professors that started last semester. From what I hear though she is a good teacher and I look forward to learning in her class. In Remote Sensing we work with a lot of imaging and try to take as much data from the images as we can using many scientific techniques. In our class we are going to apply what we learn in a project on Blacks Run, which is a creek in bad shape here in Harrisonburg. I'm really excited about this because the environment is something that I am very passionate about and to use GIS with it is what I hope to do at some point down the road. The other class is one of the core classes I have to take for my Geography BS. It is Human Geography. I'm taking it with Dr. Tacy. It seems like its going to be an interesting class because we are going to watch movies that really portray the culture of an area, and talk about it within a geographic context.
That was the first day of classes for me. I'll write soon to let you all know how my Tuesday/Thursday classes will shape up.
Posted by Simeon on January 10, 2006 02:09 PM | Link | Email Simeon
