Back to School Edition

Alrighty, so I've been at UMass for a little over a week now and I am finally getting around to writing about it. It's been a semi-eventful week I guess.

First off, I was pleasantly surprised when I got to my room. It was much bigger than I expected it to be. I have plenty of room for all of my stuff and a massive closet which is very helpful. I will post some pictures at the end.

It took me until Thursday to figure out my schedule. I had to drop my women's studies class because I definitely did not fit in. Everyone was a feminist vegetarian (it was a class on women and food) and most were women's studies majors. Also, the professor felt the need to bash Thanksgiving on her syllabus which I found completely unnecessary. She went on about how its a day of mourning for the genocide of the indigenous people. Pleeeeeeeeease. I HATE how many pretentious hippy professors there are here at UMass. If their beliefs and ideas have something to do with the subject they are teaching, then I can bear to listen to them. But to just randomly share your hippy ideals with us is not helpful, it just makes me angry.
Also I had a teacher who (not his fault) made us get our books at a certain downtown Amherst bookstore (Not Amherst Books). I HATE this bookstore but apparently everyone in the sociology department uses it and this professor is new so I can't blame him. But anyway, my reasoning for disliking this bookstore is that last year, Jon had to buy a book there for one of his classes and the book was about capitalism. The woman at the register looks at the book and says something like "ugh! Capitalism! Why would you even buy this book!?" and Jon was like "Um, it's for a class, calm down" That is so unnecessary. Obviously its the beginning of the semester and he got it from the text book section, he's not just picking it up for a nice read. Ugh, I hate hippies like that! If they would just keep their hippiness to themselves, then I would have no problem with them but they insist on trying to get everyone around them to become hippies too. I don't go around trying to get them to use the text book annex (although life would be much easier if they would!) or make them shop at macy's or something. Hippies that just live their lives and let other be are perfectly fine with me, but some of these professors are ridiculous.

I also dropped my anthro class because it was terribly boring. I picked up two food science classes in place of the two dropped classes. They're both really big just get the notes and take the test classes. Those are the best.

My favorite class is "Comic Art in North America" because I'm a huge nerd. The professor is super cool and used to work for Kitchen Sink Press. He worked with Will Eisner and wrote a few books about him.

Last night I saw Bo Burnham with Jess, Craig and Kenny, that was exciting! He was funny as always. Amy Anderson was with him as well, I had never heard of her, but she is real funny as well. Afterwards (apparently that's not a word?) I hung out with Craig and Kenny for the rest of the night which was exciting because I'm pretty sure it was the first time I'd been out of my dorm passed 10 o'clock (I'm a terribly boring college student)

Today Umass Laundry struck again!! We have brand new washer and dryers BUT the card reader doesn't work so you have to use quarters. I had to go to the snack machine, put in a few dollars and press the coin return to get enough to do the laundry. Nothing kills me more than the incompetancy of UMass.

Today's recipe is a snow pea salad

1 lb fresh snow peas
1 T olive oil
1 orange pepper (or red, yellow or green) julienned or chopped
1 clove minced garlic
3 T honey

In a skillet, saute the snow peas in olive oil for 3 minutes. Add pepper and garlic and saute for another minute or two. Add the honey and season with salt and pepper.

pics of the new room!

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