I have already had one week of classes, and T have been having lots of fun. Wellesley professors are just so fantastic!

I love my physics lesson the most. The professor is so young (at least she looks young) and energetic. She came in, introduced herself, and then said:" Your first assignment is to come to my office to chat with me by next Wednesday." Haha, that was interesting. And then she gave an overview of the course: "After you had so much Newtonian mechanics and electricity and maganetism, here's finally something COOL that you can talk about during cocktail parties!" Guess what's the "something cool"? Quantum Mechanics. Well, maybe she's refering to cocktail parties at MIT... She explains things so well; it is just so incredible. Somehow, she has the power to make everything "common sense"...(A bit like Prof Tok from NUS, if I have mentioned him to you before...He can explain difficult concepts with basic A-level stuff. To NUS people, if you have the chance, you should definitely take his courses.)

I've done my first assignment by going to her office. We talked about this and that and at the end we talked about research. I actually sent her an e-mail saying that I was interested in her research area a few months ago, but I only remembered that her surname started with an "L". During the advising day of the orientation, I went to the physics table to meet her because she would be my course instructor. We talked about the course and registration, and at the end she said:" Let's talk about research next week." I was wondering what research she was talking about, until I suddenly realised that she was the professor that I had sent an e-mail to. WoW she actually remembered the "whoever" who sent her an e-mail (and just ONE e-mail a few months ago). Unbelievable. Today, I've received reading materials from her. I just can't believe that there's a professor who cares so much about a first-year student.

I'm also taking an organic chemistry class. The professor is also making everything sound like common sense. Wonderful. I really like it. But when I had my lab on Tuesday, I was really panic because I had no clue about where all the apparutus were. Luckily my lab partner offered me so much help:)

The maths class is pretty good too, but the professor is going very very fast. In spite of his speed of teaching, he still explains the concepts well. The 1st topic is complex number, which is something that I've learnt. So I still survive now. But he's finishing complex number by Monday (believe it or not, he's finishing more than our A-level complex number within 3 lessons. crazy.) After that there will be tons of things that I haven't learnt. Hope I can still survive.

And I am also taking an Asian American studies course for fun. Actually I wanted a Russian short stories course. But on the day of registration, which started at 9am, I clicked my "submit" button at 9:03am and the russian stories class is full. The class was filled up within 3 min. Awesome. Back to Asian American studies. It is taught by an old professor who has been in Wellesley for 31 years. He just talked non-stop in class and bombarded us with lots of interesting facts and opinions. Really interesting. He's just so smart, and so peace-loving.

After my physics placement test, the chair of physics department said "please stop by my office to chat". So I went to her office today. She's such a nice lady, offering me lots of suggestions of what I should do. She's telling me to keep my options open, because I'll never know what I will be doing in the future. And she's strongly recommending me to take some Biology classes (though she's not a bio person). She gave me an example of a super-smart physicist who have found a protein structure by using X-ray diffraction. This physicist graduated from cosmology PhD and couldn't find a job. At the end he found a job in the bio lab and learned bio while he worked, and now he's the director of his bio lab. Cool. I also consulted the professor whether I should finish my degree in 3 years (to go according to A*STAR's wishes). She said that I should really take four years to try different things, not just physics, because there are lots of things that I won't get to do after I leave the college. "Since your parents are not paying for your education, why do you bother to finish in three years?" It makes sense. I talked to her for almost an hour, and I felt that I've gained so much after the conversation with her.

(By the way I still don't know whether it is technically possible to finish in three years. It seems that it will all depend on whether they accept O-level Higher Chinese.)

Now I feel that I was not wrong in choosing Wellesley. I've come for the right reason. Really:)