Sighs. I wonder who told me that college life in the us is easy. That's so not true. I've mugged harder than I ever did in NJ, and it's only the first week of school!! Argh. Problem sets come almost every day and are due virtually the next day. :( I've dropped my writing seminar. It's too tough taking a writing sem with 4 tough courses. So.. right now I'm taking 5 tough courses. Haha. Organic chem, physical chem, calculus 3, intro to micro econs and intro to biotech. Hopefully I'm making the right choice. I'd soon be unable to add writing seminars and language courses.

Nights are spent doing problem sets while days are spent at lessons or simply hanging out. I miss the days in NJ when I was "free" once lessons are done for the day. Right now, I don't feel free. Not even during weekends when there's a pile of work waiting to be done. I could have taken the easy route and take courses like intro to chem and intro to physics, but I thought it'd make more sense to challenge myself to do well in sophmore classes.... it doesn't seem like such a smart idea right now.

In any case, I'm loving penn. 'tis great here, other than the freeze my butt off cold weather and strange sounding english and bad food.. Haha. A sentence of negatives doesn't reflect the fun I've had here. The socials were great, but orientation's over. It's now time to buckle down and get to work. Till winter break at least. :) Wish me luck!!

I've spent 3 days at penn, and it was all pretty good. :) The orientation activities are packed from morning to night, but *coughs* I do not attend every single one of course. :P

The flight was pretty good; I think I'd be taking the same one everytime I fly between philly and singapore.. ;) The guy who picked us up, Alf, was nice and friendly and brought us to this cute trucker diner on the way to penn for dinner.. Surprisingly, both of us were full and didn't eat much..

There's a fresh grocer near my residence which I'm really thankful for. It has pretty much everything! :D Fruits, dairy products, cereals, detergents, water, in short- everything. The prices are pretty reasonable too.. It's a good place to go when I can't sleep at night cuz it's opened 24 hrs..

I think penn is really pretty, even though my room isn't- yet. It'd soon be though. Just give me some time to do it up. :)

Oh no.. My house dean actually told me I talk like I do online.. :( Is that good or bad?? Seems more bad to me..

My roomies have all moved in yesterday, so I'm no longer alone in the apartment. They're all nice and friendly. ;)

I don't wanna take the chem placement test todae. *sulks*