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Went to Greenville for the weekend, and had a great time. It was lovely to see Caroline, Harrison, and my grandparents.

I got back last night somewhere around 7:30-ish, and was finally finished getting unloaded around 8:45-ish, or something.

This morning, it was really tough to wake up. Not only because I was waking at 7 for class, but also because my head felt like it was trying to secede from itself. Apparently, my cold had moved one step more, and was now causing my head to be all congested, with no way to free me from it. I dragged myself to the showers, and eventually coaxed myself to get back out once I was in it.

I almost fell asleep in my economics class and my humanities lecture, which is really embarrassing. It's so annoying how, even though I got 8-9 hours of sleep last night, I'm falling asleep in class. I wish I could pause class for a while until I get better, but I gotta go.

Econ was cool today, though, and is getting more complex now, which is good.

Humanities was interesting, and was about the Hebrew Scriptures and the reasons for them and what they were causes of and for. It was neat, but I'm bias, as I really like Dr. Epes.

I went to lunch with Andy and Nathan, and met Spencer, Kseniya, Thomas, and Jacob down there. They're all really neat, and I talked to Jacob about my metaphysics class, which I haven't finished the reading for. (Don't worry, Mom, I know the topics that these chapters are on, I promise!)




Well, I'm going to go and skim the chapters really quickly, but I will catch you later.

Have a phenomenal afternoon!

Ps- I finished LOST yesterday, and am now open to discussion about the show.

Orientation: Complete.

Our final day of Orientation was today, and I'm so glad that it is over.

It's not that Orientation is necessarily bad, it's just a really looooong process; don't get me wrong--I'm really excited for Davidson--but Orientation is... long.

Today, I didn't have any appointments before the afternoon, so I was able to sleep in this morning, which was wonderful if I may say so myself. I woke at about 9:30 and showered, hung out in my dorm and played some guitar.

I gathered a group of my hallmates for brunch at commons and we went down there for one of the tastiest meals yet. I suppose that yogurt with granola doesn't really constitute much of a menu option, but the meal was so tasty. After lunch, more hanging out took place before a long speech at 2:00 on the topic of the summer reading book of In the Sanctuary of Outcasts, by Davidson dad Neil White. After the speech, we all filed out and towards our reading discussion groups. My group met with Professor Smith, an Economics teacher and baseball coach, on the third floor of Chambers. The discussion was nice, though it did seem that I was the only person in the room with my particular sentiment on the book. I hope that I didn't offend anyone at the discussion, as everyone there is really cool and I get in a serious mode when I'm arguing a point--even if the point is whether or not cologne is a significant part of a book.

After the discussion, another rallying of the troops took place, but this time for an attack on the poster sale in the Union. I found like 17 posters that I loved, but narrowed it down to five to keep costs down. I ended up with LOST, Dexter, Fight Club, Black Swan, and Big Bang Theory posters, of which I am very pleased. I set the posters up and continued reading more of the Humanities reading, The Epic of Gilgamesh.




After a 15 minute respite, we, as a hall, went to Commons for dinner. The dinner was tasty. At the end of dinner, I ended up in a semi-political debate on which Republican nominees even have a chance of getting the nomination this year. Nathan, Dan, Alex, Colin, and others joined in the debate, and it was cool.

We then got dressed up in suits and ties for the signing of the Honor Code. We took a quick picture on the steps of Chambers, and looked really legit. I was wearing my grey suit with a pink tie, and definitely looked pretty sweet, if I may say so myself. We listened to a member of the Honor Council talk about the code for a while, which was a lot of fun, even if I was the one found with everclear, without a bike, cheating on a test, lying about stealing a Snickers bar, and many other transgressions against the Honor Code.

We then went to Duke Performance Hall and listened to Prof. Epes talk about the Honor Code and plagiarism. I really hope I have him next year, as that would be really cool. We then signed our names, and I felt really excited to finally be a part of Davidson for real now. It was very exciting.

I returned to the dorm to finish my reading of The Epic of Gilgamesh, to find that the introduction to the edition is half of the entire book, and has many digressions in the writing. It was very confusing to read, but I ended up getting through it at last.

I'm very excited for classes tomorrow, even though my first class is an 8:30 am class. The fact that it is an economics class makes it okay, as I have decided.

Have a wonderful day!