New Semester, New Activities, New Responsibility.

This past week has been one of the busiest in my academic and social career, its a good thing I'm currently not working our I might of broken under the stress of what I had to come. During last week I had a grand total of 12 chapters of reading, 4 papers, a power point, and two in class presentations that I was to be held accountable for, and that was without having a backlog of class work. Good thing that so far this semester I have been on top of my academic life, along with my social life.

With the weekend came the end of dry RUSH for Kappa Sigma, and lead off to the kick off event of the fall, steak dinner. It was a fantastic opportunity to meet everyone in my pledge class, and once again see most of the members from the house. Coming together I could not of asked for a better pledge class, with members a diverse as their background with majors from Mechanical Engineering to Undeclared to Public Relations, it really reflects who we are as a group.

Steak dinner came and went and I was able to finish all my class work and required readings and even get a head start on some papers that are up and coming. For the first week my I received all copies of my NY Times and none were stolen so that was a huge plus, so I can't say that anything truly bad is happening in my life thus far.

The weekend was relaxed and laid back, and involved going to the gym, doing laundry, watching movies, and just hanging out. I had to pick up my roommate from the Airport but that just involved driving in a circle for about thirty minutes until he was out and had all of his luggage.

On the gaming side of life, with the release of 3.0.9 both the mage class and rogue class took huge hits across the board, no longer able to "gib" someone in a blanket counterspell or good blind, looks like frost mages will be coming back as the dominate spec for PVP mages. The hits the Mutilate were minor for the rogues but still hurt both 2's and 3's comps for mages and rogues, nerfing both RMP and RM. While arcane was the bad mages fail safe, it allowed for counters vs. the deathknight, ret, and hunter classes where standing still can mean death.

We will see how things play out, all I've done recently are BG's and have not played with my partner since the changes rolled across the board, so we will have to wait and see if we can still manage our top tier preformance or if we will be knocked to the ground by pally/dk teams.