Weekly Report 67: 1st Week at TTU

With summer vacation over, school has started. However, this time around, I am not attending high school. Instead, I am at an University, hoping to pursue my career and life goals. Last year, I decided to attend Texas Tech University, and here I am in the flesh! I don't know terribly much about Texas Tech (I'm sort of kinda new here..) but I can already tell that I'm going to have great experiences and adventures on this 1,839 acre campus. Due to that fact, from now till further notice, I will be making a point of posting about three exciting/interesting things that have happened or I have learned every week. So here we go...

1. For a Honors College requirement, I am taking a class called The Power of Comics: The Cultural Value of Sequential Arts. While I have always appreciated comic books, before Wednesday's lectures, I hadn't thought much about the enormous effort and thought process that goes into the creation of one. Think about this: A movie director directs the direction and storyline of film but he/she has the support of actors, makeup artists, costume designers, script writers, location crew, lighting crew and more. However as Alex Raymond (writer of Flash Gordon) once said, "a comic artist begins with a white sheet of paper and dreams up his own business -- he is playwright, director, editor, and artist at once."

2. At Texas Tech, I am part of a research program called Pi Squared that is meant to train undergraduate students on various skills, methods, and techniques that needed to do scientific research. This way, research labs don't have to take the time to train new researchers and can instead send them straight to work. I am excited about this because it means I can get a head start in research. For all those considering attending Tech, I would reccomend you all look into this opportunity!

3. Dorm life can be fun. It can also be hard. You have to adjust to the overwhelming gain of freedom, the loss of privacy that comes with a roommate, and the sense of isolation one may feel without many friends. So far, I've been adjusting to dorm life pretty well. Sure, the first few nights were a bit rough. (I learned that the air conditioning vent was right across my bed and that if I didn't turn it down before bed, I'd freeze to death throughout the night.) But other than a few hiccups here and there, I've been good! Maybe in a few weeks, I could even start giving out tips on dorm living!!

~Shrinidhi Joshi

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