First Day of Class (Or, Why It's Good to Leave Earlier Than You Think You Need to)

My first day of classes was exciting! I'm definitely looking forward to the semester. I had Earth Science and Early Irish History. My Earth science professor is also the director of the program and has a PhD in Geology. His class promises lots of interesting information on not only what he calls the "sexy" part of earth science, aka volcanoes and earthquakes and anything Discovery Channel has made a documentary on, but also some of the lesser-learned topics like humans' manipulation of rivers. My Early Irish History professor is an Irish archaeologist with a PhD from UMass Amherst, and she actually wrote one of the books we're using for the class. Today we got an introduction on the Stone, Bronze, and Iron Ages of Ireland, and tomorrow she's taking our class to the National Museum of Ireland!

So the classes themselves were great, but getting there was another story. Today was the first time I had to get to the Academic Center entirely by myself, and I didn't do a very good job. This is the way to get to the Academic Center:

And this is the way that I went:

Once I called Ian and found out that really all I did was forget to go up one street, I knew exactly where I was. I'm sure I'll do better tomorrow.