First Day of classes for Fall 2010: 3rd year at UA

Woah! So today was the first day back to Akron since Spring semester! To start my day off, I woke up at 6:50 AM, my first class is at 7:45AM,...I get on campus at 7:22AM, and usually there's no parking at 11:00AM, but no, people tend to get up at the crack of dawn apparently and park in the deck I need to park in, by Simmons Hall. So I have no idea where my car is in that deck. I get to the College of Arts and Sciences, and there's a bunch of us waiting for our spanish teacher, there was a lady in the hall I kept seeing, she looked lost, I thought she was a student, because there's all these older people on campus now. She kept walking back and forth. I took a seat and the way the room is set up, my seat is facing the door, and I can see into the classroom right across from me, and there's a guy in there, same situation I'm in, he looks to be about 35-40. He's staring right at me, making me uncomfortable as all hell. So I stare back, in an attempt to make him feel the same way. He stopped. Then in walks the lady who looked lost...she was the teacher, or so she thought. She had us write on a piece of paper out names, addresses, numbers, and number of years takin spanish. Then she asks who our instructor is supposed to be. I do not know who it is since I never looked, so I wait for somebody else to respond, hoping I'm in the right class. She turns out to have made a mistake, and packs her stuff up and leaves. Two minutes later, our real teacher comes in, apparently there was a room change, she has the class write down our names, majors and why, and how many years of spanish we've had, where and when. When she's writing this down, these kids in my class are laughing, and I feel old, because I don't find anything funny...at all.
So my first class was kind of hectic, especially seeing as she told us about participation and how she would call out random people in class, which makes me uneasy. I hate being called on and participating, in case I get a wrong answer and somebody sneers at me, like the people who answer questions every 5 seconds, and ask questions that the teacher just answered! Ahh but, for the most part, this semester should be fun! I'm kind of excited now.
But for all the freshmen who have their parents on campus with them, really?! It's time to let go of your kid, or your parent(s), start living your own life, and act like an adult. It's fun, and easy. Get used to it. Geeeeesus!