On Campus!

I have now finished a whole week at college and am now qualified enough to right a blog entry about it. College life is amazing. Perhaps it's because my school life absolutely ruled, but somehow, I don't quite find college as great as school. Nonetheless, it's great to look forward to not having to walk around everywhere in line (Okay, we never did that in school, but here it's perfectly legal!) or sit in the place the teachers assign (Man! We never did that either!) or wear a uniform. It is also amazing the way there is a shift in the way of teaching - they just EXPECT us to understand stuff!
Besides the prescribed syllabus, the college insists we learn a foreign language (I picked French!). We had our first language lab today - rather interesting. Our instructor (you can't really call her a teacher - she's just there to take attendance and give us our tapes since we learn through linguaphone) started talking to us about how our listening skills aren't good enough and offered 200 bucks to anyone who could name all 82 people present today. I got 72 which was way more than she expected and hence am the proud owner of 200 bucks! Later, I realised that I'd been gypped since the guys who had the same class yesterday got 300 bucks and the guys who had it on Friday, 500 bucks! Anyway, I feel rich!
Another bunch of stuff on college that's weird and/or cool:

We have 4 companies on campus in keeping with PESIT's industry learning policies.

The guys' and girls' loos are located on the same balcony!

The teachers take attendance for every class.

We have a HUGE classroom and an inbuilt balcony!

Our building (the 'A' block) has a glass elevator. (Which we're not allowed to use - we can only use the plain one, and it's rarely empty. As a result, I end up climbing four floors and coming back down about twice a day.)

We stated off Computer Concepts Lab with a Microsoft Word assignment!

The 'E' block which houses the courses other than BE, a couple of companies and the Biotech and Comp Sci departments is an awesome building whic has an open central atrium with an absolutely ugly piece of modern art in the centre and a covering made of orange rods which reminds me of the Suntec City Mall (I think that's what it's called) in Singapore.

It's a challenge just to get around campus since the whole place is hilly.

Our building looks like a hi-fi software company's office!

There is a HUGE auditorium with three levels of seating (capacity about 2000) which doubles up as an indoor mini-stadium.

The library is amazing!

The entire campus is FULL of people!

The rooms are all well numbered by block, room and floor. For example, my classroom is A 407 - the seventh room on the fourth floor of the 'A' block. I find this entire concept highly cool.

The teachers are all really strict!

Our English course starts with our 2nd standard portions.

(And this one's my favourite...) There's this buzz of life and spirit that's always there in the air on campus... Which is fantastic!

I've had just one week of college and I'm loving it already... I just hope that, like school did, it gets better and better!