Go Gators!

I was right. Last Monday, I went to an orientation session at UF. I wasn't entirely sure what the purpose of the mandatory day-long event would entail, but I was sure that at some point there would be a brainwashing session, then we new students would dye our hair blue and orange. Other signs of assimilation would manifest later.

Basically, they showed us how to access our online support pages, talked about activities and their prelaw programs. At one point the adviser informed us that UF is apparently the number one "feeder school" to US law schools. Great. So I'll be ever-so-efficiently run through the UF mill in order to graduate with a BA and become one of the overwhelmingly many UF majors applying to law school. Add that to the allusion (intentional or not) to their students as either cattle or feeder fish, and I feel just spectacular about the individual nature of education at UF!

At one point we went to speak with our departmental advisers about registering for classes. I'm now enrolled in "Blake, Newton and Disney: Re-thinking the Myth of Cultural Paradigms" and "Feminist Theories." Exciting. Two separate people who I asked about the instructor on the first class described him as "brilliant." I'm really looking forward to both of my English classes.

During the security section, we were treated to a presentation by the UFL police chief. No one was tazered.