First Week

I like my classes. I obviously have a favorite and a least favorite but I actually like all of them. I don't think that has ever happened before.
My favorite is my class on the capstone, ironically. I like the teacher, I like the subject matter, I'm all for this. My least favorite is the U.S. history class I have to take, simply because I have little interest in U.S. history after having learned it at least 6 times already over the course of my school life. The class that's in the middle somewhere is the English class I decided to take in hopes that it would give me tools to better my writing. The teacher is weird but in a nerdy, cool way that makes the class more interesting and the homework assignments include reading but are also exercises that challenge me in odd ways. For instance, my first assignment I had to write the longest sentence I could using only one semi-colon and it remain grammatically correct. The next one we had to diagram a two paragraphs at the beginning of this essay and then write sentences using that diagram. For example, a sentence would be "Jane ran home." That would be diagrammed as "subject verb object" and I would then have to write a sentence using those parts of speech (like mad libs but a lot more complicated) so I would write "Mark likes dogs." That's obviously a very simple example and it became a lot harder. So hard that I was pretty stumped because you also had to make the paragraphs cohesive and make sense.
Anyway, I'm thinking my last semester isn't going to be so bad after all. I really just need to keep up with my research and just stay on top of things.
I have my first therapy appointment this Saturday since being back in the states coming up which should be interesting. There's obviously a lot to talk about. Also, my family is going to come up for my graduation (even my dad who hasn't been back to Chicago in god knows how long) which is in June so I have that to look forward to.
My grades still haven't come in yet from China so I'm not sure if my Chinese classes will count towards my minor or if I'll have to drop it. I also don't know if my internship class will count as my independent study so I might have to quickly add an independent class to make up for that if I want to finish with classes by the end of March. I've decided I'm going to wait until the beginning of February to start applying for jobs, simply because I should have all of my information then. Or at least most of it.