First Day of Classes

Monday, August 22, 2005, at 06:25AM

By Eric Richardson

Classes start today for my last semester at USC. I'm excited at the prospect of being done, but I can't say I have any desire to go back today. The object of most of my worry is Latin, which I'm supposed to know by now (seeing as I'm going into Latin 3), but really don't. It's going to be a long next few weeks as I really push to catch back up with where I should be. I'm just hoping today doesn't have any real content to it (no first day should) so that I can put off that first moment of being called on and not knowing the answer until Wednesday.

In a feat of good planning, though, I don't have any pre-noon classes. My schedule, in fact, looks like I'm cheating the system and taking maybe 8 units, when I've actually got 18 in there.

Eric Richardson lives in Atlanta, Georgia, where he works on payments infrastructure for Cash App.

Past lives involved streaming audio for Southern California Public Radio, running a hyperlocal news site for Downtown Los Angeles, working on custom mapping code, and writing Perl at the Jet Propulsion Labratory.

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