Tip of the Day: If you wake up in the morning and open your blinds to look outside, and notice that there’s someone gazing back at you, put your glasses on before wondering why someone’s staring at you.

Because nobody’s actually staring at you, it’s just a garbage can.

The end of today officially marks the end of my first week of my second year of university (today and not tomorrow because we had class last Friday). Although I can’t really give a good overview of all my classes yet because none of my labs met this week, I can say for sure that my social enterprise course feels like it’s built for middle school children. We spend about a fifth of the class period waiting for people to volunteer to speak, and we’re “learning” about things a small child would be able to figure out using common sense.

My social theory course is a bit more interesting. The topic we’re covering now is an old topic that comes up frequently in many social science courses, but my in­structor talks about it in a way that makes it worth learning more about. This sociological theory course is a requirement for the sociology major and most people would probably not take it if they didn’t have to, but something about my instructor says that even though the topics might not always be interesting, the course still isn’t going to be boring.

My psychological statistics course is taught by a relatively old professor who gives off the impression of being really good at what he does, and being able to do it in an efficient and friendly manner. The downside to this course is that it involves a lot of math, but at least we get to use a formula reference for everything (inclu­ding exams) and the focus of the course is on the con­cepts rather than the calculations.

Finally, my zoology course seems like a basic biology course that someone would take during high school. I haven’t really gotten any strong impressions from it other than the fact that it’s probably not going to be one of my favorite classes because I have historically had a difficult time with all biology-like courses I have ever taken. Also, we have so many students in the lecture that we can’t fit everyone in the lecture hall and some people have to sit on the floor in the aisles.