So, here I am in Fairview.  Me and Sam spent quite a few weeks moving in, and now everything’s totally set up.

Actually, we were done a few weeks ago, but for some reason my blog kept glitching and I never wrote about it.  But yeah.  First month of school is almost over, and I must say I’m feeling a lot better about this year than I did about last year.  Honestly, I’m not sure I could reccomend the PPE program to any new students.  While I met some interesting people and I liked most of my professors, I horribly failed at all of my economics classes.  I’ve found a lot of students had  similar problems in that the students who enjoyed economics hated the philosophy aspect.  The thing is, philosophy, political science and economics all are connected, because the latter two owe their existence to philosophy, but they don’t go together that well anymore.

However, this year I’m not on a standardized timetable and I find I greatly prefer what I’m doing now.  I don’t have any classes I dread going to or  fail to understand.  Even though I see my future in mostly analytic philosophy, I think my favorite class right now is Existentialism.  I’d actually reccomend it to people who hate philosophy as well as people who like it.  It’s just an all-around enjoyable class no matter what your background is, and the professor has a really good energy to his lectures.

If you’ve been reading Sam’s blog, you know we both joined seven clubs last week.  My favorite of these is the Freethinkers.  It’s a fairly new club at UBC, I think less than a year old, but I’m really glad they’re here now.  They’re affiliated with the Center for Inquiry, which doesn’t have a large presence in Vancouver currently, but hopefully that will change over time.

All in all, the most depressing thing in my life is reading Kierkegaard.  Which, to be fair, is really depressing, but as a whole that says good things about my situation.