Tomorrow is my first day of class. Summer is officially over (and my summer list still isn\’t finished yet). Since I plan to work for a professor here, my schedule seems lighter than it should be. Normally most students take up to 6 classes per semester. I just want to make sure I can allow everything to sink in before I graduate.

Today while walking back from yet another potluck, I got caught in a downpour. Of course, Pittsburgh weather is known for being very NON-california like. At first, I was going to walk the 3 blocks home, but the lightning and thunder was close together. I went into my friend\’s place which was a midpoint home and stayed there while the sky flashed and roared. Then it was over in 20 minutes. What great weather, right?

To this day, I don\’t understand why SoCal people complain about Berkeley weather. Here in Pittsburgh, how could SoCal people complain about unpredictability of temperature when I am suffering humid summers and cold winters? I quote a student, \”You don\’t know what winter is until you have been to Pittsburgh.\”