OMG BOYS

Today has been a pretty swell day, if I do say so myself. I got to sleep in an hour due to having no chemistry class at 8 AM for the rest of the week, which is always nice and meant that I could wander over to the Hoch for breakfast. Linear Algebra made sense today, we got 19 people around a table that should by all rights fit about 7 for lunch, and CS was fun...because computer science is always fun.

My roommate and I have been having an amusing time figuring out what to do about everyone studying in our room. It's really cool often, because we end up procrastinating (DON'T DO IT) and thus have homework to do at 2 AM, and if it's 2 AM and you don't understand an assignment you want someone equally tired and sympathetic to help explain it. However, our room is not the most spacious location ever...though we have seating for 6 and floor space for more, it gets kinda crowded and there's a lot of using ladders and climbing around to navigate the room. And then there's the whole bit about my roommate and I sleeping now and again. While we're perfectly happy having chosen to keep our room open to other people a lot of the time, it's a bit awkward to be flossing in the middle of a study group, even in one's own room. We've decided to institute some no-Y-chromosome hours as a temporary resolution to our problem, as most of the people who study in the group are guys.

Which leads me to a brief discussion about the ratio here. If you're reading this for information about Mudd, the male-to-female ratio here is about 2 to 1, which is reasonably common for an engineering and sciences school. However, having been in an all-girls school for eight years now, I was a little more than scared about it. I mean...BOYS. EVERYWHERE. It's a big change for me. But you know what? It's not so bad. I mean, sure, suddenly rather than being in a small cluster of girls talking about random stuff, I spend time in a small cluster of primarily guys talking about slightly different random stuff...but it's not a huge difference, really. I can imagine a bunch of people reading and thinking "well, duh," but really, it's odd how normal this seems. One gets so used to being around a bunch of boys that only in the wee hours of the morning after finishing Special Relativity homework does it occur to my roomie and me that hey, it's 3 AM and THERE ARE BOYS IN OUR ROOM. And they're not doing anything stupid...they're smart people at a good school who follow the honor code. So it all works out okay.

But we still have to sleep sometimes. So no boys between 3 and 8 AM. And I'm off to go get Hoch dinner.

PS - if I offend any boys by referring to you collectively, I'm sorry. You're all very special unique individuals.