It looks like I'm going to be about as busy this term as I normally am at MIT. Though thankfully not as miserable as I was freshman year, I still feel like a little froshling because I have to relearn all the ropes of UCLA. Argh.
I got into the advanced Japanese class after taking the placement test (and seriously freaking out that I was failing incredibly miserably), but class yesterday showed me that the advanced Japanese class is only a 3rd year class, and I have already taken a goddamn third year class. I know way more than though kids, though I am incredibly out of practice. I could probably, if I wanted to, jump up to the 4th year class, but I figure I'll take my first year easy. I don't want to lose any more language proficiency than I already have, so I'll chill with the kids in the 3rd year class. *shrugs* I'm not in that much of a rush to be incredibly Japanese fluent anyway.
I graduated MIT really feeling like I didn't know very much, but now I've really come to appreciate how hard MIT classes are, even at a non-hardcore neuroscience level. I'm taking a neurophysiology class this term, and I've already taken a neurophys class. My other class is a cell/molecular/developmental neurobio class, all of which I am familiar with. Winter quarter is an anatomy class which I have already taken courtesy of sketchy MIT Dr. Schneider, and Spring quarter is a systems class (visual, auditory, olfactory, etc.) which may be on the only thing vaguely new to me. :3 I think it'll be a fun, mediumly stressful year like all my other non-frosh MIT years. Huzzah.
I've already met a couple of friends here at UCLA, some in places like Enigma (the Sci-Fi/Gaming group), QuizBowl (which I kind of sucked up), and Japanese. Seriously, if somebody shows up to class in GaiaOnline T-shirt, you know she's a fangirl. She even got up in front of the class during self-introductions and listed "cosplay" as one of her hobbies. WINXORS, shameless fans! Another girl I was paired with commented on my FF: Dear Friends shirt and we spent a couple of minutes talking about the awesomeness of Advent Children.
Anyhoos, this is a notoriously boring real-life update. I'm off to Japanese class now (I don't have the dictionaries, the workbook, or anything yet at all. Hooray for preparation).
Catch you on the flip side, yo.
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