I've finished up with my third week of classes at UCL. As each term has only 10 weeks, I'm actually done with a somewhat significant portion of the term! I switched one of my courses (the Science Communication course) for a new history class called "Ancient World in London Collections," which meets most weeks in the British Museum and involves exploring the museum with our tutor and learning about what the various artifacts can tell us about ancient history (so cool!). I've been keeping myself very busy with water polo (I'm currently on three teams: the UCL mixed first team, the UCL girls team, and a club girls team called Poly) and rugby (I've been going to some of the girls team's practices - very fun but very very agressive!) and lots of other events. By the end of October I'll have been to a show or concert every week - I saw The Lion King with a bunch of other UCL students earlier this month, went to a Joshua Radin concert with friends last week, saw Jamie Cullum last Tuesday in Kentish Town (wonderful concert - got some great videos!) and have tickets to see Laura Marling (a British musician I absolutely love) next week. I've been showing my friends many of the places that I visited a lot over the summer (like Borough Market) but am still exploring and finding new places as well - recent favorites include Regent's Park and Gordon Square. I've been spending a good amount of time on schoolwork (with only 8 hours of actual class time a week, they expect you to do much more independent work) and just over a week ago I took the GRE, so now I embark on the next big part of applying to graduate schools: the applications themselves. Luckily my 4-day weekends give me some extra time to spend on grad school applications, though between water polo tournaments and traveling I'll be gone a lot. If I'm lucky enough to get any interviews, I hope to take Reading Week of next semester to come back to the US and visit schools.
I have been having a bit of trouble with my current roommate (she doesn't know the meaning of the word "compromise" and I mean that literally), but I found out today that I'll be able to switch into a single at the term change in January! Not yet sure where I'll be living, but I hope to stay in my current dorm as the location is so great. And this experience is definitely providing some amusing stories, at least.
Off to dinner now with a few friends - dim sum and then visiting the Tate. There's an Gerhard Richter exhibit there I'm very excited to see. Cheers!
P.S. I went to Copenhagen a few weekends ago and had a fabulous time! It was much colder than London but absolutely beautiful - I especially loved eating at the cute little restaurants on Nyhavn (right on the canal) and venturing out into the Danish countryside and seeing Fredriksborgslot, the beautiful castle in the picture below, as seen from the many-leveled garden across the lake. (Mange tak to Brett and Karen!)
I have been having a bit of trouble with my current roommate (she doesn't know the meaning of the word "compromise" and I mean that literally), but I found out today that I'll be able to switch into a single at the term change in January! Not yet sure where I'll be living, but I hope to stay in my current dorm as the location is so great. And this experience is definitely providing some amusing stories, at least.
Off to dinner now with a few friends - dim sum and then visiting the Tate. There's an Gerhard Richter exhibit there I'm very excited to see. Cheers!
P.S. I went to Copenhagen a few weekends ago and had a fabulous time! It was much colder than London but absolutely beautiful - I especially loved eating at the cute little restaurants on Nyhavn (right on the canal) and venturing out into the Danish countryside and seeing Fredriksborgslot, the beautiful castle in the picture below, as seen from the many-leveled garden across the lake. (Mange tak to Brett and Karen!)
