Hurricane Irene

Hi all!!

I made it through a rather boring but somewhat helpful orientation and my first week of classes.  I am really excited for my classes but it is definitely taking some adjusting. I technically am taking four classes but one is my lab rotation (more on that next week) and the other is "First Year Group." It's like the freshman orientation class that a lot of university's have students take just adjusted up for graduate students. My other two classes however, are more focused lecture/discussion classes.  What's weird with them is that we have a different professor at least every week in both of those classes.  I like the idea of this because I'm being taught by experts but it's also difficult to wrap my mind around adjusting to a different person every week.  I am looking forward to it though!!

So now, for what all of you are worried about...Hurricane Irene

Yes, Hurricane Irene hit the North Carolina coast today.  Yes, it just stopped raining here a little while ago.  But they are not predicting that the heavy rain/winds will come this far inland.  We are expecting rain and fairly significant winds tomorrow (gusts up to 40 mph) but nothing too terrible.  We have plenty of food and drink and are planning on staying at home all day tomorrow and enjoying the rain. For those of you who aren't  that familiar with North Carolina, Chapel Hill is only slightly west of Raleigh.  You can pretty easily watch the hurricane in relation to Raleigh so hopefully that will help! If you are concerned just text me and I'll tell you what's happening here!

On a slightly happier note, I got my North Carolina driver's license today!!

Have a great weekend!