Spring 2008, Different.....???

Posted at 1:27 PM, Thursday, January 31, 2008

I'd say this semester is different, in certain ways. For one, Nousheen and Hamman are not here with me. We miss them a lot! But I'm soooooo glad they're in the US enjoying all the wonderful things there! Thank God for that :-) Secondly, this is the first time I'm taking a course all by myself. Not that it's anything strange/special, just feels different. Usually, I have either of Nousheen and Saima, or Hamman and Nayyara in my classes. But anyways, this semester looks weary already, haha. I'm taking Leadership and Ethics (PHI 300) with Dr. Osam Edim; Introduction to World Literature in Translation (ENF 231) with Dr. Andrew Rooney; IS Security & Auditing (INF 351) with Dean Kah; Procedural Modeling and Blue Printing (INF 361) with Dr. Felix Bollou; Operations Management (QBA 202) with Dr. Benjamin Botchway; and Psychology with Dr. John Carroll. It all looks exciting right now, but loads of readings to do. All the same, I think it's too early to decide what this semester is going to be like :) Thirdly (you must have thought I was finished, haha), Dr. Sergey won't be here this semester. That's really going to be a loss for the university. I mean he contributed a lot in the school of ITC - managing the moodle site, managing all the IT labs, supervising in the ACIT, etc. And we students are going to miss him the most, esp those in Software Engineering and Computer Science. He always helped students with any problems they had with getting software to be used in different courses. I heard that he might still come back next semester. I pray he does cos he was very helpful to everyone and so good with everything.

Talking about Hamman and Nousheen, I've had lots of pics and info from them about the US already. All the exchange students that went from AUN spend most of their time together - Nousheen, Hamman, Oma, Judith, Lydia, and Luke (I see them all in pics together!). I just have to mention that all of them saw Obama live a few days back! He came to AU with the Kennedy family to deliver a speech! Judith actually shook hands with Obama! And seeing the Kennedy family too was great! I guess I can't write about all that (or post pics) just yet. I'll definitely add an entire entry on everything that's going on over there soon. You see, the semester truly is super busy. I don't know; I might end up dropping one course next week if the load gets too much. God willing, I won't have to :)

There're about 5 entries that I haven't finished writing and so haven't posted yet. I'm waiting to finish compiling pictures for some. I've finally gotten my own camera!!!! Now I can take all the pictures I want, anytime. Praise God!!! I've even signed up on flickr. I'm looking forward to adding more entries with lots of pics :) Got to go now, I've over-spent my time on this entry already (8 minutes over). Have lots of assignments to finish.......Hoping to post soon :)