Week 2

I've been looking at all my syllabi and have found it quite overwhelming, to be honest. All the work that I'm going to have to do before the end of the semester is incredible! At least I have people to help me if I'm stuck. I'm still looking for friends to make a study group with in some of my classes and I hope that won't take too long.

Today I decided to have some fun and try out for an a capella group. After listening to them at a gathering of all the groups yesterday, I thought it would be really exciting to join one. Then I realized that I needed to have a song prepared. At that point, I thought I was going to have to back out. I wasn't sure if I knew any songs well enough to try out for any of these groups, especially the all women's a capella group, the USC Sirens. Being a guy and all, it's hard to get into one of those. Instead, I decided that my lack of skill would be perfect for a group with about mid-level skill called Overflow. They seemed pretty friendly and they sounded great. The catch is that they're a Christian group and that they don't compete. So, I figured it would work well for me as I'm doing all my work for EE to have a break and sing with a Christian group. Of course, this all depends on if I make it or not. There is another really pro group called SoCal VoCals that sounded incredible yesterday, but I didn't think I was good enough for them, so I intentionally skipped that one and went to Overflow.

Classes are... not too bad yet. The most annoying class is my general education class: The Emergence of Modern Europe. There's a great deal of reading involved and it's all about European history from 1350-ish to the French Revolution. It sounded interesting when I signed up for it because I had never had the chance to take AP European History, but it's seeming like it's going to be a lot of work. Other than that, most of my classes have an average load of work to do and the teachers professors seem to teach pretty well.

My roommate is planning to switch into Computer Science for his major, which is cool because I kind of want to learn that stuff. Although, I don't really feel like that's my calling for a major, knowing that stuff would be nice. I hope that I can learn from him if he does decide to switch majors. Also, I'm slowing finding people who speak Korean to hang out with, which is great because that helps to increase my Korean skills... or lack thereof.

I hope week 2 is as great as week 1 was.

-Sam Rho