My Return Back to Ohio Wesleyan... for possibly the last time as an Undergrad

The summer is over and and I am writing not in the familiar confines of my home on my sister's computer (since my computer does not have Internet) but at Ohio Wesleyan. Oh man, my senior year. Many changes, many adjustments, new friends from the Class of 2013 (hopefully). You know you are back at school when you are looking through Consort and OhioLink to find Call numbers for books when you do not want to pay for them in the bookstore. Well, at least I am saving over $100 and can use that money for other important things such as my senior dues which are by the way, $110 (and yes, OWU people who read my blog, I will try to make it to the Welcome Back Toast at the Pritchard House). I am about to become either a social party animal counting down the days until I finish or a recluse, locked inside City Hall, an astronomy lab, Beeghly, or my room until December, at least. I hope it is the former.

My first day of classes was yesterday beginning at 8 am. This is something that I am somewhat used to with the exception that instead of being in a class, I am manning the Student Involvement desk. I am now working the Student Involvement desk in the afternoon from 4 pm - 6 pm, reminiscent to my sophomore year. My first class was a Religion class- Gandhi: Religion and Social Change. I think this class would be a good one; I just need to focus and get some coffee. I get a break at 9 am and return to class at 10 am with Argentina, Brazil, and Chile. Some of my friends and fraternity brothers took the class last semester so I think I will get some of the books through the mail so I won't have to use more of my money. My professor is also my academic advisor and I had two of his classes already. I will definitely enjoy this class. At 11 am, I head downstairs for a dose of The Astronomical Universe. There are so many seniors in this class trying to find the least demanding science class. Honestly for me, it was between Astronomy or Geology and I already had a bit of geology knowledge in my Geography classes. I chose Astronomy purely for my interest. I foresee a lot of study groups at other fraternity houses. Even though I did not have my lab this week, I anticipate the challenge of an astronomy lab next week.

I have my Historical Research Seminar or Senior Sem as fellow History majors like to call it today and I am very optimistic about all of the wonderful sources that are out there. Microfiche seems to be everywhere and I will probably hit up some of the folio oversize books soon as well. Better yet, the Senior Sem class is once a week and there is only 6 other people taking it with me. This will be a most interesting academic year. I may have to add another course in order to fulfill my junior/senior residency requirement but I know that I can handle it. I have done 5.5 credits before and the result was very good. I have Choral Arts later today after work and then Smores at the Interfaith House, and finally an executive Circle K meeting.

Bishop Week is this week but I do not have much of an interest in it especially since I have tons of things to do already. What I am most looking forward is the Welcome Back Dinner and Toast with our President, Rock Jones, at his house on Sunday. I cannot wait for the celebration and to be reacquainted with all of my fellow seniors. Class of 2010, BABY!!! Whoo!!! Unfortunately, I do not have any pictures but I hope to change that very soon.







Living the dream,
Hasani Wheat
Class of '10