help! the gangrene's got me!

It's the end of my first full week of classes, and wow, they warn you that college is harder than high school, but no one ever specifies exactly how much! it's not so much that everything's more difficult, i guess, just that so much more is expected of you. i have huge readings every night and papers due all the time. and i have fairly easy classes! i really don't know how my friends with science and math courses are dealing.
so, this week has been very busy. i've had classes and home work, obviously, but then i've also had work every day. work is actually really pretty fun. there have been a couple days when the kids are all really cranky, and when i was functioning on little sleep, that was not a good experience, but mostly they are adorable.
then, since this is the first full week back, all the meetings for all the clubs have been happening. and, because i am interested in almost every single club, i've been running from meeting to meeting every night. i know i can;t keep it up, i'm going to have to choose a couple clubs and let the rest go, because otherwise i'll be entirely ineffectual in all my clubs, but it's really hard to pick! debate or vassar greens? unicef or democracy matters? theater or a capella?
speaking of, i'm auditioning for 4 a capella groups today, and i've been called back for the musical i auditioned for, and that's also today.
oh, and i got into choir! but i'm an alto... so that's a little odd. but i think choir's gonna be really fun! we have a concert in october with a professional orchestra and they're bringing in singers from the Met!!!
i think i'm going to drop my linguistics and anthropology class because i really don't like it. it's long, boring, and, from everything i've been hearing, deals with phonemes until like the last 2 weeks when it finally deals with how linguistics deals with anthropology. which is the part i was actually interested in. plus, if i drop anthro, i get to take fencing!!!! and i really really wanna take fencing!!! i think i'd also add a 6-week class about the first professional female author in english literature that sounds really fascinating. so i think it'll all be for the best!
last night was really fun, there was an all-campus, freshman (and sophomore and junior unofficially) vs. senior food fight that was a ton of fun! my friend Teo painted himself green, tho, and it never dried, so there's green paint EVERYWHERE and you have to be really careful what you lean against ... i've been calling him Elphaba. i don;t think he appreciates it. but everyone else keeps getting green, too, so we say that you've caught gangrene. it's a good 4th-floor inside joke. then there was a bar-b-que, fireworks, a ben lee concert, and a bon fire. it was a great friday night!