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.

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[lord-codfish.livejournal.com]

The world doesn't, though Junior Parents' Weekend is kind of fun. On the other hand, junior year is the time when your department(s) start to care about you. I'm not suggesting that they don't already - EPS skunks even EAS in doing cool things for undergrads - but they start to focus on your academic work much more, so that the thesis-topic-choosing process isn't entirely on your own. It's rather nice.