Alternate Title: Hey, I’m at college, and finally have both internet access and a few moments of free time!
So: I’m now broadcasting live from sunny (VERY sunny) St. John’s College, in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Got to Santa Fe on Tuesday, August 24, registration and orientation started the 25th. Classes started a week ago today; and may I reiterate: whoa.
There are lots of things that they tell you and a lot more that they don’t. Some things they tell you but you rather stupidly need to experiment with yourself before you believe them. They’re not lying when they say that things are easier up here: things like getting drunk and getting sunburned.
The people are awesome here: it’s an extremely intellectual (some say downright geeky) community, and I absolutely love it. It’s so wonderful to be with other rabid book geeks; it’s wonderful to be in a supportive academic environemtn, and one where what matters is learning the material, not getting the highest score in the class. In that aspect, St. John’s is pretty much everything my high school was not.
I mostly wanted to drop by (since we’ve FINALLY got a decent connection in our dorms!) and prove I hadn’t dropped off the face of the universe. Also, I had a vaguely odd and possibly lack-of-oxygen-induced (Santa Fe’s at 7300 feet) thought of starting an “Ask the ‘Great Books College’ Student” type of thread (because those threads haven’t been done to death…). Would anyone but my gratutitous interest in boosting my post count be interested?