And so it came, the big day known as the 1st day of school. It was expecially delightful for me since I only had one class on Wednesday at 1:30pm! So I took that extra time serving as a Campus Locator, where I was stationed on the South Oval and gave maps and directions to anyone needing to know where a particular building was located. There weren't too many people that needed help, mainly freshman, who wanted to know where certain places to eat were, but we did get a lot of professors and even some upperclassmen who needed help trying to find a building that was maybe in the cut. And despite popular belief, more guys asked for directions!

My class was cool, Communication 500, which covers Statistical uses for Journalism. So although it was a little dry, I guess it holds some type of relevance to my field.
I also started on the job today as a Teaching Assitant for Communication 423, or The Lantern course. I met the new advisor for the newspaper, Tom O'hara from Cleveland's Plain Dealer. He's a lot different from the last advisor, but looks like he'll be a good and efficient person to work with. I mainly just assist him with class things, and I'll have to create a 20-question quiz on all the latest happenings in The Lantern as well as grade it.

Day 2: My class day started a little earlier since I scheduled this Music 101 class about singing just to see if it's something I would want to take next quarter. It was fun so I think I might schedule it for Winter Quarter, but not now with 4 classes and job. I had Communication 607 at 11:30, and that was a very interesting course focusing on the Law and Communication. I kind of never really wanted to take it, but it was offered at a good time, and I guess I should know more about the court system and all that Ammendment 1 entails.

My last class of the day was Social Work 597 at 2:30pm which is about Teen Pregnancy around the world. The Arts and Sciences school requires that you take one 597 international course, and it can be in any subject area so I thought this one sounded like the most interesting GEC. And it was because all we did was discuss what age people thought it was appropriate to have a child, and we even talked about what people's thoughts were on lowering the drinking age. My teacher surprisingly changed the time of the class though. She said because she worked a day job, we would have to bump class time back to 3:00, which worked for me. So it's a very thought-provoking course, and our 1st homework assignment is to write a story about what Romeo and Juliet would do if they had a child. This should be fun and easy!

Well that's it for my main classes, I'll add on the Buckeye TV course later. My Friday was totally free just like I scheduled it, but I didn't do too much but go on High Street to start buying some of my books. Saturday was exciting with the big game, and my Aunt actually came down from Hudson, Ohio since she gets Alumni tickets as well as my sister.

My sister, Myself and My Aunt Mary after OSU's victory against Minnesota

To end the long list of Welcome Week events, I went to the Campus Church service held in the Hale Center, and later that night was the big concert, which I didn't even plan on going to because after the big names (T-Pain. Kelly Rowland & Mario) they had last year, this time they got a lot of groups I never of. I did know of The Roots so I came out to see them at the end, and it was packed out! I had to slide in the back, and they put on a good show. I didn't realize how big the band was with a Tuba player, a couple guitars, keyboards and drums.

The Roots on the South Oval at the Welcome Week Concert