SUNDAY - - - Interesting to see Harvard students roaming about the Yard to go to the various laundry rooms. Guess Sunday is the popular day. Figure that I may have to do it on some other day... and yes, I just bought my first book online from Amazon and half.com! gosh, books in college are really expensive...bought some new and used books... for my courses this term, i guess its going to be almost 300bucks... i didnt know it would be this expensive! i'm gonna try and sell them after i take the courses, hopefully can get some money back. Went to Boloco at night with entrywaymates and PAF Garrett.

MONDAY: First day of shopping week! Haha, yes, there is this unique Harvard tradition where you get a full week to try out and 'shop' for classes that you'd like to take for the term.. so its like a buffet week! haha, today went to my ec1010 and chinese Bx class.. i can hardly understand half of the things the chinese teacher is saying! by the end of the semester, we are supposed to write a 1000-1500 word Chinese essay, learn about 700 chinese words, do a presentation in Chinese, and have a written and oral exam! A momentous task, but I'm determined to really pick up the language this year. It's really amazing here, coz the textbooks you use in class are written by the professors themselves! hahha they even apologized for the high price (eg Greg Mankiw for Econs- I remember using his textbook for JC too, Sandel for Justice, and many many more!)

And today was the 1st day I walked out of a lecture by a professor...i walked out on a Harvard professor teaching a class of about 25 students. haha but it's totally fine, since it's shopping week. hehe =p

Went for an Ice Cream party cum ADvising Session at Annenberg tonight. Tomorrow's gonna be my first session for my Freshman Seminar. I'm excited!