By Erika 　http://www.xune.net/archives/143

I’ve officially moved into my new apartment in Rochester, NY. I made the 10-hour trip from central Virginia with my family. I’ve been here for five full days and am getting used to my new location–I drove around town a few times and today I rode my bike a few miles on the Lehigh Valley Trail. The trail runs along the Genesee River which intersects the Erie Canal a few miles from my apartment. The trail is great because it takes me about 4/5 of the way to RIT so I won’t have to ride my bike on busy roads.

I start classes at RIT next week on the 7th. Two of my three classes start at noon and the third is on Thursday nights at 6pm. I’ll be taking 12 credits (4 credits each) each “quarter.” They call the sessions “quarters” instead of semesters since there are four sessions: fall, winter, spring, and summer, although I’m not required to take courses during the summer quarter. My courses this semester for my degree in HCI are:

• Foundations in Human-Computer Interaction
• Research Methods
• Programming for the WWW (using PHP)

Even though I don’t have classes this week I have two orientation sessions, one on Wednesday and the one on Thursday. I’m really looking forward to the orientation meetings because I’ll get to meet other graduate students, especially IT graduate students.