Greetings and Salutations

I'll be honest. I'm awful at introductions, so I'll try to make this as quick and painless as possible.
Hi. My name is Kaitlin, I'm a sophomore at Beloit College, I'm from Racine, WI, I'm a Creative Writing major and Journalism minor, I'm also studying Japanese as well as a smattering of other subjects when and where I can, I'm a part of Beloit's literary magazine 'Pocket Lint', I'm currently working towards studying abroad in England, and my dog's name is Sparky (which was a highly essential fact when I was 9 or so. It doesn't seem so important anymore, but I thought I'd throw it out there just to make sure I'd covered all my bases.) Phew. Glad that's done.
Hopefully this blog will provide some sort of insight into what it's like to actually be a student at Beloit College or at the very least provide a break from reading all those college brochures you've no doubted started collecting. (There's only so much college brochure reading a single person can take.)
Now here comes the part where I regale you with riveting tales of my summer vacation adventures. If only I had any. (One of the more exciting things I did was learn how to knit and play the theme from Pride and Prejudice - though not at the same time.)
So while some return to school dragging their feet and wishing it were June again, I was ready to dive back into the school year. This year is definitely busier than last, but it was also a lot easier to get back into the groove since Beloit College is more like an old friend now rather than a new acquaintance. (Though it still has its surprises. Just last week on my way to Japanese class a fox crossed my path and stared me down for a little while before scurrying off. It was quite surreal since the only wildlife I'd ever seen on campus before was a duck couple and the ridiculously large population of squirrel.)
This semester I'm taking 5 classes and lucky me, they all managed to land on Tuesdays and Thursdays (but on the positive side of things, my Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, are wide open). Two English courses, two Japanese courses, and Astronomy. I wasn't so sure I'd like Astronomy, but it's a little hard not to enjoy lying down on the roof of the new science center and looking up at the stars for an hour and a half.
This year I brought my faithful car back with me from Ray-Town so that I can get out and about in the Beloit community more often. The only misgiving I had about having my Chevy Cavalier sidekick hang out with me in Beloit was parking, but there are a surprising amount of places to park on campus, and now that I'm here, I don't think it's going to be a problem at all.