First Day at School.

My academic career started yesterday at SOAS. I had a Welcome Talk, Afternoon Tea and went on a tour to the other campus. The place is a paradox in a way. They give out a lot of information, but still it feels like you don't know the basic stuff. And everything is online so go there. And you can ask help from almost anyone. So who do you turn to? I don't know! But apparently everyone will be given a personal adviser from the department with whom they can talk about things academic. And non-academic. Yes, about personal problems. With a member of the staff. Interesting.

The campus is nice and quite easy to understand. It is quite small after all. It's really loud now as well. But I suppose that's because it's Freshers' Week/Fortnight. And each day there's a Hare Krishna stall giving out food. Yes, that's right - GIVING out food. It's karma (their words), so they give out free food every day. Donations can be given. I haven't has a chance to taste it, but I'll get to it soon. That's for sure.

And I did find a Waterstone's a 100 meters from the campus... I died and went to Heaven. It's wonderful! I love it. The one on Piccadilly is the biggest in Europe, sure, but it doesn't have that wonderful bookstore feel. This one has and so much! And the books...Oh, the books. Because it's so close to SOAS and UCL, there are a lot of study materials and other books in specific subjects. I love it. Love it.