Updates from the rest of the week...

Wednesday: First day of Operations Management at 9am. Nothing too spectacular. The professor seems to be pretty good - he did graduate from Wharton. After class I had lunch with Gunter (my roommate) and then I had class again at 2pm. This class is called "Literary Classics in Visual Culture" and it's basically a film class. I think it will be a good class, but I think we overwhelmed the professor a little. There are six international students in a fourteen-person class, and we all have a liberal arts background (read: we all know a little about literature). He is used to working with science and engineering students. He said at the end that the course might be tweaked a little to coincide with the higher quality of students. I'm thinking it's gonna be a good class.

Thursday: A big day. Four classes. I've already reported on my first two classes (OB and Financial Markets) and the last one (Film), but the my third class of the day might turn out to be my favorite. It is called Anthropology of Food - basically, "we are using food as a lens into different cultures and societies." Also, the professor for this course is excellent: he is a visiting professor from Harvard. And he seems to be a really nice guy.

So after these classes I went back to my room to read a little. After, Gunter and I went to an orientation dinner for our hall. The food was pretty good, but there really wasn't enough of it. After this, we met up with some of our other friends and went into the city (mind, I don't have any class on Fridays, so Thursday night is now a weekend-night.) We went into Central and proceeded to Lan Kwai Fung. I had never been there before, but I was told it was the place to be at night. And it lived up to its reputation. There were lots of lights and LOTS of people (mostly ex-pats and non-locals) milling around in the streets and in the bars. We did not go into any bars because they are kinda expensive. We did, however, go into what seemed to be its own bar: 7-Eleven. Here, they sell beer by the bottle, open it for you at the counter, and you are allowed to drink it while walking around the streets. It was very enjoyable walking around with a beer just seeing everything (that was the point of our excursion). We met some more students and continued walking around until about midnight. Then we took the MTR (train) back to campus and went to bed. All around a great evening.

And here I am on Friday, with a full list of things to do and a full day to do them.