he's never been in love, but he knows just what love is

and as i get into the groove of things and stuff starts to make sense, it just doesn't feel so fun anymore.

am supposed to be having a meeting for students who placed into upper level mathematics right now, but i just don't feel like going. i was given 2 credits for math and 6 (!) for chinese which counts in my electives, so i already have 8 credits and i haven't even started school. all those years of chinese did pay off after all. so i only have 34 credits left to graduate, which is allows me to, if i so desired, get my degree at a stately pace of 3 classes a quarter and still have 2 classes too many. what totally hilarity. which prompted my academic adviser to ask whether i was aiming to finish my college education in 3 years. which i can also do if i took 2 years and a quarter of full load and 2 quarters of 3. obviously i said no.

she seemed rather caught out by my intention to try and do a double major in econ and cinema. i get the sense that i just might be the first person ever to try that combi. of course, all the other singaporeans think i'm nuts, either openly or secretly. of course i know that getting a masters would far greater help my career advancement. i'm not facing up to it, but i DO know. it's just that i don't really want to spend ALL my time on econ. i love econ, but i also love a lot of other things.

[at this point, i had to run downstairs to pick up my laundry]

like film, and watching movies. and all sorts of stuff like that. and i want to be able to enjoy college. i'm already missing out on the heady irresponsibility, cos i know how important it is for me to do well. i don't want to have to just spend my entire 4 years worrying about just econ and what i HAVE to do to get that masters degree.

on a totally different note, i realised that orientation here is totally the same as orientation back in singapore. you talk to everyone, but don't really know anyone. and at the same time, i was reminded of how much i hated orientation in RJ. so yeah. i can't wait for the lessons to begin. going to try a full load, humanities (media aesthetics), social science (mind), math (calculus 3) and biological science (ecology and evolution focus). if i get all the courses i want, then i'm going to be in for loads of hard work, which i am already looking forward to.