We had our first day of classes today and I was up at 8am… well, actually 8.21am after politely telling my dream to conclude in an orderly manner. My first class was Physics at 9am and it took place in the Hewlett building which has these enormous stadium-like classrooms. Sadly though the professor is really quite not-so-interesting and I felt a bit drowsy. He kind-of rambles more than he talks. Eh, but it's a requirement class and I've got to take it. I felt sorry for the freshmen who were attending it though because there was a million to one chance that that was their first lecture at Stanford and it sucked - about ten minutes into the lecture he realized he should ask if there were any freshmen in the audience and then he gave them a boring "Welcome".

Chinese was in this room that honestly smelled like Chinese food. Our teacher was very enthusiastic and she said she'd be using only Chinese from tomorrow onwards which makes me feel that a lot of hand gestures are going to be in use. She's also horrible at drawing but in a funny way. We did learn the four tones in Mandarin though and how to write in Pinyin (which is the romanized way of writing Chinese), so that's a start. She also told us to practice the four tones while we were in the shower. Anyway, Chinese is going to be everyday at 10am and there's a quiz on Thursday! Yeesh. It's going to be interesting.

At 11am we had our first CS lecture which has really got me excited for "Programming Paradigms". I hope it isn't a let down; the guy seems interesting. Let's see.

Also, wouldn't it be cool if Google told you when you typed in a search query that no one had ever typed before? Just… you know… saying.

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