Welcome Home!

Hey, guys!
Welcome back!  After a long summer break I am finally back on campus and even in the few weeks I’ve been on campus this semester is already shaping up to be the best so far! Despite the fact that I missed my family a good amount last year, I found myself more often than not wishing I was back on the Hill.  August mainly consisted of me eagerly counting down the days until early move in for summer band camp.

This year I am living in a double in Loyola Hall, a dorm located closer to the bottom of the hill.  My roommate and I were incredibly lucky this year to get a room in Loyola because it has air condition and each room has it’s own bathroom.  The air conditioning becomes obsolete after the first month on the Hill, but for those first few weeks it is a God send.  My roommate and I also have a lot more room to work with this year compared to our freshmen dorms.  Also–the room is carpeted! 🙂

This is what my room looked like the day I moved in.

The INCREDIBLE bathroom that is inside my dorm room!

Band camp was incredibly rewarding this summer. The new freshmen are amazing and it’s visibly noticeable how well we all work together. It was a difficult week, with the schedule going from 7:30am to 7:30pm almost everyday with no breaks besides meals, but we accomplished so much during that week that it was more than worth some tired feet and sore backs.

Band members just casually hanging out before rehearsal.

Academically, I am really looking forward to this semester. I am taking two English classes, one Computer Science course, and one class under the Classics department. The English classes—Early British Literature and 18th Century Satire—are incredibly good so far. Early British Literature is one of only two more introductory courses I need to take for the English major, but 18th Century Satire is my first real English elective course. I love how focused the topic is—we’re only looking at one genre over one century.

The Classics class—Classical Drama—is in the same strain as my English classes, but from a different perspective. I’m very excited to read some ancient Greek plays and see how Classics students approach literature. Finally, my Computer Science course—Computer Systems and Organization—is probably the class I’m most looking forward to. This semester I’ll be learning about the hardware inside computers and at some point I’ll be making my own circuits! However, I will still be doing some regular programming on the side because I am TA-ing a Computer Science lab this semester.

As you can see, this semester there’s a lot going on between classes, marching band, concert band, executive board for band, and TA-ing. It will be a lot of work, but I honestly love everything I do enough to put in a little more work each week. See you guys soon!

Best wishes,
Emily Vogelsperger

This entry was posted on Sunday, September 11th, 2016 at 4:42 pm and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.