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I look forward to taking classes that I didn’t have the chance to take during high school. I can’t wait to learn new material and sail into my semester at WAC!

Open house! So today was the last normal open house of the semester, and I got to meet lots of potential students! First, I helped out with the math/computer science department and talk to prospective students who were interested in the subjects. There were lots of people who came, so it was super fun! Once we finished, I went to the dining hall and ate lunch with my professors that also worked for the open house-- they got meal tickets for helping, so free food and cool discussions about math and computer science! Then, I was bored and had an awkward amount of time between the math/comp sci thing and my next meeting, so I came over and chilled with some of the other bloggers and got to meet more prospective students in the downstairs of the dining hall. Open houses are a great time to look around the campus and decide if you could see yourself here, so look for more dates next semester!

My favorite season is hands down Fall, and the signs of it are beginning to show up at Washington College! The other day I was taking a walk around campus and I couldn’t help but notice that the tips of the trees are beginning to change into beautiful autumnal colors and some leaves are even beginning to fall. Our school has so many trees and it is going to be absolutely breathtaking when all the leaves are in full Fall colors. I can’t wait to get back on campus after Fall Break to see it!!

Most of the classes that I am in right now are not test-based, so I only had one midterm for my Organizational Behavior class. Although I didn’t get much sleep the night before because I was up studying, it wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be. It was one page front and back of true or false, matching, and a couple of multiple choice, and then a packet of paper to write my response to the essay question. It was a very different set up to that of a high school midterm, where it was pages upon pages of multiple choice questions and then an essay. This is partially because this midterm was only one class period, and if you finished early then you could leave early. Also my teacher let us know everything that could potentially be on the test so that we weren’t studying blindly, and that was super helpful. I ended up doing pretty well on my test, and if I could do it again, the only thing I would change would be to start my studying sooner. It would’ve helped if I had been able to sleep more the night before and I probably would’ve retained more of the information. But overall, I feel that the midterms at Washington College are really fair.

This past week I had my first event as a part of the Student Event Board (SEB). SEB is basically a club where you organize, coordinate, and execute events that are available to the student body, free of charge. At the Pumpkin Partay, we set up space for people to either paint or carve pumpkins, as well as provided free pumpkin pie and pumpkin coffee. It was such a fun event, so many people showed up, and it put everyone in such an autumnal mood!

Something that I used a lot throughout high school but didn’t think that I would need to pack for college was a lanyard. I had figured that since I was’t bringing my car to campus, I wasn’t going to need my lanyard to keep my keys on. However, at Washington College, you use real keys for your dorm room and your mailbox, and having a lanyard can be really helpful. Of course a keychain could technically serve the same function, but being able to wear your lanyard keeps you from having to bring a bag with you every time you leave your room. I ended up buying myself a lanyard at the WAC bookstore in the Casey Academic Center within the first week of school (they have some that are only $5!) as well as a plastic slip to put my Student ID card in. This is also something that is extremely useful and I would suggest getting, because carrying my wallet with my ID around everywhere for the first week was very annoying and inconvenient. Now I always have my keys and ID on my lanyard and I bring that absolutely everywhere with me, it’s like an extension of my arm.