So it is the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, and I’m on a near-deserted campus. Less than half my seminar is present, and my classes were conspicuously empty. This, combined with the rainy, gloomy weather and the failure of Annenberg to provide adequately satisfying sustenance, has begun to make me slightly sad. It’s just slightly weird, not being with family for a weekend that for so long been filled with blood members , but perhaps this is a singular representation of homesickness.

Anyway, I’m sure that my feelings of loneliness will soon be dissipated by Friday, when I depart for two days of reuniting with high school friends at Yale and New York. First some TASP friends, and then some of my best friends stretching back to middle school; that should prove very fun, especially seeing  how they have changed, or not.

This, however, makes me particularly excited to return home for winter break, which is a month long…possibly leading to extreme ennui, considering all I have to do is pick out classes and apply to a summer study abroad program. Oh well.

I’m about 2/3 of the way through half of my first semester here at Harvard, and to sum up my experience, I’m in class right now as I write this blog; so many of these students actually pay attention, but even more seem to not.

Classes are not too difficult, but what is challenging is not getting distracted by everything that goes on around here…mainly Facebook, gchat, etc. in addition to all the extracurricular activities that one would like to participate in.

Also money flows out so quickly, and Boston is not exactly the cheapest place to shop or eat in.

I’m questioning my major and whether it will allow me to garner the grades necessary for law school, but mainly I’m questioning my ability to concentrate and dedicate myself to studies. Hopefully that will change, but at least now I’m receiving A’s in all but one of my classes. So glad I’m not going p-set or math/science classes in general.

In other news,  I was initiated into WHRB under Record Hospital; all the time I put in seems to have paid off…and now I’m joining IMUSE and hopefully a Radcliffe partnership for music.

One of these days I’m going to spend a bit of time and actually post up a decent entry, although that probably won’t be until winter break.