Seminar!

We had our first seminar today. It was quite an interesting meeting, too. They handed out the syllabus, and we went through it as a group. This is going to be a fun group of people to get to know. We have four people from Lawrence University, two from Beloit, two from Kenyon, one from Macalester, one from Colorado College, one from Grinnell, and one person from Knox College. Although Lawrence's numbers dominate, they didn't seem like a faction, which is good. 

Our seminar is team taught by two very cool profesoras. They are appropriately nerdy in their habits and interactions, so I am very much looking forward to working with them. The professor from Beloit is a Medievalist, and the professor from Monmouth teaches Religion and Philosophy.

I am not yet wired in my apartment, so today I write surrounded by stack after stack of reference books at the Newberry Library. I am sitting in the Eliphalet W. Blatchford Reference and Bibliographical Center on the library's third floor. Even that name intimidates me.

Speaking of being intimidated, yesterday we turned in our first papers on St. Augustine's Confessions. Because this was our summer assignment, I am a bit nervous about the outcome, seeing as how I do not really know what the professors are looking for in our writing. I guess we will have to wait and see! We have started our first round of Library Orientations. From the looks of the schedule, it seems that we will have orientations for at least the next four weeks! We'll see how that goes!

For now, I will just go back to my apartment to refresh my reading of the Confessions to prepare for tomorrow's discussion. And you can check out the way the sunlight shines through my windows in the mornings.