Spring Semester

Second week of school and I'm exhausted already. Taking 18 units, rehearsing for three hours a night, working and being in charge of rush for my fraternity is really doing a number on my sleep time. I'm not sure if I knew what I was getting myself into when I volunteered for all of these activities; it’s a lot of work. But I'm having a great time. My classes this semester are a lot harder, but they are also much more rewarding. The higher level classes are less general so I really feel like I'm gaining a lot of knowledge on very specific topics. I think my favorite class right now (granted it’s only the second week of school, so this is subject to change) is my African American literature class. The professor is really fun and the range of literature we are going to be reading is really impressive. But enough about school, I have all day for school. I've been rehearsing every night for a play entitled "How I Learned to Drive" by Paula Vogel. It’s a Pulitzer Prize winning script. I had read the script for class my freshman year and loved it so I was really excited when I was cast in the show. Rehearsals are a lot of fun, the cast is great and I think we are going to put on a really good show in March. I wont be able to make it to rehearsal at all this week though because its rush week. Greek life is really big here at Chapman, a huge percentage of our students are Greek. I think that is because Chapman Greek life is very different from traditional Greek life. We don't have houses for our Fraternities and Sororities so we meet on campus and center most of our activities on the campus as opposed to a house. I never thought I would go Greek, and I think that’s why I like to talk about it. My friends at home are still surprised to hear I am involved in Greek life, but that is just Greek life at Chapman.