I've been on campus for just 3 days now and I've been in California for about 5 days, but I'm still rather tired in the evenings. The combination of walking everywhere and the time zone change is really causing me to have trouble staying up late and hanging with friends. Today, I decided not to go to a spirit rally because I would be extremely tired after something like that and instead, I followed around a suitemate and his friend. They're both into LoL (League of Legends) so I figured it would be interesting to see how they behaved and it turned out to be rather enjoyable. They joked around with each other a lot and it seemed that their enjoyment in the game allowed them to quickly become connected with many others who were interested in that sort of thing. As a result, I now know almost an entire suite that is full of LoL players. By the way, I'm currently living in one of the more expensive dorms on the campus. I had no idea because I didn't really research enough, but apparently this costs a great deal more than other housing. I guess the combination of being right next to the museum, park, cafeteria, and having air conditioned room make it rather attractive to students, so the higher demand leads to higher prices.
On an off note, I got my AP scores a while ago and I never really got to tell anyone about them. That being said, they didn't really matter much, but I'm going to write a bit about them here. I actually did rather poorly this year on my AP tests. The only 5 I received was in AP Environmental Science, and that was simple! I managed to get 4's in Chem, Micro, and Stats, which was exciting. I was not expecting to get that good of a score in Chemistry, especially since I had not properly looked over the actual format of the Free Response portion of the test. I had no idea that I would have to figure out what would specifically happen if two elements combined! I, of course, only got a 3 in English Lit, but I'm basically never going to do well in English, so I'm over it. The last test I took was Macroeconomics and I had my doubts about that class. I wasn't sure if I was even going to get an A in the actual online class because of the Macroeconomics section at the beginning. Anyway, I never got to properly learn macro, so I only got a 1 on it. It's depressing, but, with luck, I'll never have to deal with the economics of a nation or of a large company, so I'm over it.
Back to USC. I really enjoy it here. The weather is pretty nice all the time and the lack of humidity makes even the heat bearable. I have spent many hours in the sun these past few days trying to get to know people through the programs that USC has set up, but because some of them are so late, I have trouble staying up for things like the highlighter dance party that was last night and the movie that is tonight. Rather than attempt to go to those things, I have decided to write this post. I still feel like the time should be 1:21am instead of 10:21pm. Hopefully this time delay thing for evenings will start to wear off on Monday because classes start. I still need to try and keep the early morning waking up thing going, but also increase the amount of time I can stay awake. I have yet to properly time my route for the next week of classes, but the only real trouble I think I'll have is on Wednesday, where I have like three classes back-to-back-to-back. And I don't even think those classes are that far away from each other, so I should be fine.
I would write more, but I'm a bit too tired now. Perhaps tomorrow will be a free day for me to write. It's Saturday, so brunch at the cafeteria opens at 10... I have to wait until 10 to eat... Whatever.
-Sam Rho
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