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So, my first week of college was pretty busy but still enjoyable. Because all of my seven classes are basically in once-week blocks, it means that we're pretty much getting down to business starting this coming week. I've already got two 'group meetings' scheduled for Monday, where we're going to break up our main projects in each of the two clases. The funny part is, 'cause of Labour Day, I still haven't actually had my two Monday classes yet - so there's more work to come!

All in all, the projects look like they will be a lot of work, and the biggest challenge will be getting everyone in the groups moving in the same direction along with following the various professional style guides I was required to purchase. As far as the other classes went, Thursday seems to be my 'funny prof day', so the two three-hour blocks actually went by pretty quick. In both Introduction to Research and Periodical Writing the profs were again (like on Tuesday) quick to dispell many of the preconceptions surrounding my (hopefully) future industry of employment.

The first, Nick, made a point of differentiating between advertising, marketing, and public relations and how we're all distinctive from one another (yet how we'll ultimately have to work together). He had a pretty dry sense of humour, and caught just about everyone off-guard first thing in the morning. He also drove home the point that try as we might, we're not training to be Svengalis (his words). So this falls in line with most of the ideology that I took in on Tuesday.

The afternoon saw us with David, the man who actually was on the front lines at the orientation for this program back in the spring. I'm sure that I'm not the only one who sees him as synonymous with the program, as that orientation was when I started to think that Seneca and PR were right for me. As he's teaching us Periodical Writing, it also helps that he's a pretty solid storyteller, giving us some entertaining anecdotes he's likely told for the majority of the sixteen years he ran this very program. What I truly found surprising is his insistence that we "get past press release mentality", as in his entire career he could recall writing only two, prefering the higher-paying, more strategical fare.