And We're Off!

I suppose it's high time I get to the blog this week. So here we are a few days (3, to be exact) into the semester. Yeeha. Already I walk around looking nervous with a large bucket to hold my brain in when it tries to escape for a better life. So it's not that bad, but I have the feeling that it very well could get to that point if I'm not careful.
So far, all my teachers are great! That's very comforting considering I was half-expecting one of them to spend most of the time as Dr. Jekyll's counterpart. I think one of the best qualities a teacher can have that is revealed in the classroom is a healthy sense of humor. If that sense of humor is unhealthy, then I might suggest heading for the hills. Well my chemistry teacher, math teacher, anat. and phys. teacher, and religion teacher all seem to have healthy senses of humor. So there's a lucky break in that. Homework balances it out nicely though. It's most likely due to the fact that it's the beginning of the semester and therefore natural to feel like one's mind is scattered throughout the stratosphere, but there's a foreboding air about my homework amount. This will probably be a rigidly-scheduled semester. I almost joined the University Band because I have an opening for that hour, but doing homework during that time would be more beneficial. Another thing is that all of my classes are structured so differently from any other class I've had so far, except my religion class since I've had that teacher before. For example, in my Bio 264 class, it's optional whether or not we show up to the lab. We still have to do the work, but physically showing up is an option! The teacher said it was a change due to better help the students get out what they're putting in. So far for that class, I've learned about the 6 levels of organization (chemical, cell, tissue, organ, organ system, and organism), and 6 systems in the body with the major functions of each. The first part of the class, my teacher said, will be mostly histology (cells and tissues) before we get into the fun stuff.
That's about all there is to tell this semester. I'm loving that most of the campus is free now; no longer carrying a huge blemish of construction but just a little one. The school is now working on an amphitheater right in front of the Smith Building (for those of you who know where that is). The renovations are very pleasing for convenience and aesthetics.
Before I sign out of here, one thing I've missed aside from the friends up here was the weekly campus-wide devotional. They are now held in the BYU-I Center and are as good as ever. "Devo Days" are just good days, enough said. I'm signing off and headed for...something!