Junior year?? What??? Noo, I want to go back into hiding

[pastwatcher]

The prospect of being a junior, two years older than incoming freshmen, the most active class in activities--being an officer in HRSFA, the Noteables, /and/ Uchoir--being forced to start specializing (not to mention grad courses) in math, picking a thesis topic at the end of the year, etc., etc., ...is actually quite frightening. Help!! It seems like this is the most important part of college, except that it seems like that every year, and each year is so different...but help!

That said, I'm coming up to Harvard on Saturday afternoon; I have rehearsal until 4, and probably want to be around my room or a couple of others until after dinner. But just to let people know, I'll be around. Oh, and my mouth looks a little scraped up, but that's just because all of my wisdom teeth are gone.

I should be packing. I really hate packing. I will now pack a bit more, then go into coping mechanisms; I have good ones at the moment, because the Deryni series is good. I'm not even freaked out about getting my hair trimmed tomorrow--must have something to do with the wisdom teeth, or the fact that it is /finally/ long enough to possibly be okay afterwards.

Does anyone have anything to say about how junior year compares with freshman, sophomore and senior years? It was actually the start of quite a /good/ time for me in high school, and not because that's when I started taking /undergrad/ math classes, but that was different.

Comments

[tiamat360.livejournal.com]

I am, I have to admit, a little worried about thesis topic. Given that I don't mind work, so much, I'm thinking half of the trouble in writing a thesis is simply going to be finding a topic. At least you can pull out of a thesis, if you feel like it!

[dumble.livejournal.com]

Geez, why are you guys already thinking about thesis topics? *I* don't have a thesis topic yet! =)

[pastwatcher]

That /does/ make me feel better. But note that Alexa and I number among the ranks of people who like to know what they're doing as early as possible in order to reduce panic. (Not that I think of you as less prone to panic, just more competent.)