fatvegan

I met some friendly people at university today. There was a nice girl in QMA (I won't say what it stands for) who asked me some questions and answered some of mine. She seemed a bit overwhelmed and a bit 15, and was surprisingly outgoing considering. QMA was good. The lecturer is very cute. And he's teaching all these things which I thought were very complicated, but which I've discovered are actually quite easy. One more little chunk of the world of knowledge that is less scary.

We had a two hour social science workshop. I met Allison, Vincent and Trudy (a boy Trudy not a girl one). We drew diagrams and developed ingenious plans to develop and market singing-dancing penguin spoons. Spoons that really sing and dance. Most of the creative brilliant came from Allison. She's doing the marketing. Trudy and Vincent are most likely to be our technical and logistical specialists, although they're not yet aware of this. And I'm doing the spoon-decoration using pastel paints.

The discussions were funny. We talked about transport policy. Lots of people talked. It was very interesting to be in a room of incredibly smart chaps. There weren't any silly comments or off-topic ponderings. People disagreed on things, but they were all very eloquent and succinct in their rants. Although sometimes big vocabularies do get in the way.

There were even some boys - not many but some. And a lot of caucasians. There are only two caucasians in my QMA tutorial, and it's pretty big. I think there must be more caucasians in social science in general.

Our teacher seemed a bit frightened. She kept asking us if everything was OK. She's doing a phD, teaches, and has a job in a bookshop. I don't know how she does it. I'll reckon she'll be good.

Microeconomics was alright. I realised I don't really understand comparative advantage that well. For the first 45 minutes I was sure the lecturer was wrong. And for the last 15 I was thoroughly confused. So that's good.

It was a good day. Definitely the most good one so far.