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Thursday, September 3, 2009

First Day of Classes

My only class meets Mondays and Wednesdays, so today means nothing special to me, except that all of these kids are milling about campus, livening up the atmosphere. I saw a girl in the hallway just now, mincing about atop three-inch stiletto heels. Now, I can rock stilettos for a party, but school? School in Fairbanks? Sorry, but no. This kid is either going to drop out and move back to her out-of-state home within a few weeks, despondent over the lack of shopping opportunities in Fairbanks, or change her fashion approach very quickly! I can say from personal experience that dress shoes + ice = a very, very bad idea.

In other news, free food! There are tables with cookies and coffee and popcorn lining the hallways! Yay! UAF is such a friendly school like that. Neither Berkeley nor SCU ever passed out food on the first day of classes! They don't do end of semester cookouts either! I wonder if all of those tiny little liberal arts colleges in small towns that you've never heard of are super-duper friendly. It seems like they would be. On the other hand, they might also be racist/sexist/fill-in-the-blank-est. I wouldn't want to go much smaller than UAF.

1 comment:

Rena said...

I went to one of those small midwestern liberal arts colleges that you've never heard of (Lawrence in Wisconsin), and yes - it was really friendly. 4-year college, population about 1200, and more than 90% lived on campus. There weren't any TAs, class sizes rarely exceeded 30, and we could walk across campus in 7 or 8 minutes. 4 if we were hurrying. It was a nice experience, and very very different from a big university.