I sent in an appli­ca­tion to the eco­nom­ics pro­gramme at Carleton before I left for Hong Kong last year, and got an offer of admis­sion when I got back. I accepted the offer on Monday, reg­is­tered for two courses, and started going back to uni­ver­sity for a sec­ond degree. One of my courses is on TV, so I’m get­ting Trolley to tape it for me as an excuse to head over there and try some of my duty free Villager Premium No. 7s with him. My other course is a con­cen­trated intro­duc­tion to eco­nom­ics, so it’s two three hour classes each week, mak­ing it the exact equiv­a­lent of two courses itself. I’ll try to get an intro­duc­tion to account­ing course next week as a fourth course, when the aca­d­e­mic advi­sor is free and not being a bitch.

I’m going to switch my major to busi­ness in the sum­mer and spe­cial­ize in mar­ket­ing. Since I have a degree in com­puter sci­ence, I’m con­sid­ered a third year stu­dent already, since a lot of my cred­its trans­ferred over. If every­thing works out (pre­req­ui­sites, degree restric­tions, course avail­abil­ity) I could have a sec­ond degree at the end of the year.

My first class was yes­ter­day with quite a few first year stu­dents, some of them six years my junior I’m will­ing to bet. Six years. More than half the class was Asian.