First Day of Orientation

The first day of my Fletcher Orientation was today. It was enjoyable...ish. We had about five hours of lectures on topics from financial aid to mental health to the economics department. Regardless of how interesting it was, in dosages that high it's all a bit much to digest.

And this was only day one.

The people were interesting, though. As interesting as promised. One young woman I spoke to had just returned from her two year stint with the Peace Corp in Burkina Faso. Another young Japanese man had interned with the UN High Commissioner of Human Rights on the issue of refugees in Japan.

And, again, this is only day one.

Unfortunately, my trivia team isn't doing very well, so there's plenty of room in my little universe for improvement. But I mean, how can anyone be expected to remember the first name of the half-brother Bill Clinton pardoned on his last day of office?