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The First day of UVM

Posted: September 9th, 2011 by speebles

I’m taking a class called written Expressions and it’s a class for freshmen and I hope the class is fun.  I really like my professor and she seems very cool.   The professor went over the syllabus for the class and every student in class read a line out loud to everyone.  I thought that was a fun way to start off the class.  There are only 20 students in Written Expressions and they are all freshmen.  I get my weekly assignments on Blackboard and that is pretty neat.  Most of you are wondering what is “Blackboard”?  This is not the blackboard we knew from school. A Blackboard used on college and universities are web pages.  This is where you take an online class and it goes straight to the professor of the class. 

While in class the professor handed out a student questionnaire and everyone filled it out.  Everyone had to share a few things about themselves to the other students.  I was brave enough to share personal information about myself and I felt good about it.  After class I walked over to the Waterman cafe and it’s a nice place to hang out to have a snack.  This is where we talk about how the class went and we discussed the questionnaire I filled out.  Later in the day I took the campus bus to the Patrick gym because I was taking a yoga class and I thought it was fun.  I thought the instructor was nice and he gave me a compliment on my yoga stance. I did yoga for 45 minutes and that was really cool.  My first day at UVM was great and awesome. This is going to be an interesting adventure and it’s going to be a lot of fun blogging about it.

 

The Orientation Weekend

Posted: September 9th, 2011 by speebles

On Saturday I went to my first college orientation at the Davis Center on the University of Vermont campus.  The Davis center seems very cool and it’s going to be a fun place to hang out on campus.  The Davis center is the biggest building on campus.  The Davis center has the UVM TV station and I hope I spend some time in there.  It also has two food cafes and I hope they have great food in them.  I felt very excited about my first orientation and I also felt nervous.  During the orientation my stomach was doing flip flops.

The orientation was fun and I got to meet my mentors and that was very cool I thought.  I have four mentors on my UVM team and I rally like them.  Some of the mentors and I were talking about how I meet Charles Shaughnessy and other actors over the years.  I had fun talking to my mentors and I got to know them better.  The mentors seem very nice and they seem very cool.

During the orientation many of us went to the basement of the Davis center and we got our “official” student Id’s.  I finally got my picture taken and it’s a good one.  A minute later the guy gives me my official Id.  At that moment I felt awesome and very excited about starting UVM.  I thought it was very cool and very awesome.

As a part of the orientation we talked about safety and how to stay safe on campus.  The UVM campus has a blue light system and when you press it the police come in two minutes.  I thought that was a very interesting face to know.  We also talked about drinking, sexual Harassment and sexual assault.  I gave the basic definition what is sexual assault.  During this part of the conversation we talked about consent. 

After the orientation was done my roommate and I decided to explore the campus a little bit.  The UVM campus is really big and I never knew that until I went to my first orientation.  We walked over to the Royal Tyler Theater because my class is taken place right next to it.  I had fun exploring the campus and I can do it myself this week.  I’m taking a class called Written Expressions and the class should be a lot of fun. I have a feeling this class is not going to be dull or boring at all.  I’m very exited to be taking this class and it’s going to be cool.

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