Well the arival was not bad at all. Everyone was very welcoming, the staff, the RA's (room advisors) and the other COSMOS students. I have found that my cluster has really bonded more quickly than the other ones and our group is just so chill it's really easy for everyone to just be themselves, have fun, and worry less about impressions. I feel very comfortable with eveyone im with and feel ive made a lot of friends. Ive had a lot of gream times just hanging out with our newly renamed cluster, "TEAM EXTREME!" (we're the best cluster). The arrival day was strictly orientation and "breaking down the walls/ice-breaker" types of events, which was a bit of a drain and kinda boring but for the most part was an inevitable event. After the obligatory name games and get to know you events, i got some time to chill with the others in Team Extreme, and get to know everyone the real way it happens talking and interacting by choice, rather than having to approach somoene and play 20 questions as to what random word had been taped to my back by the gracious RA.
We've been playing a lot of games like capture the flag, football, and ultimate frisbee which has been a lot of fun. Although, with the humidity sweat has been more than flowing from my teenage pores and i find i might be doing my laundry sooner than i had planned and i anticipate ill be buying more deoderant fairly soon.
The course is amazingly just what i had hoped it would be and more. Aside from a rather painstaking grammar lesson from our teacher fellow after she read our "grammatically insuficient" applications and theses we had an awesome conversation about quantom mechanics, perspective, conscienceness etc. Im really enjoying the class and i think im going to take a lot from it. We were given some cameras (they're kinda crappy) so im using my own that i brough which turns out to be quite an advantage. There so much to talk about but im done for now. PEACE