In the morning my mom drove me, along with my two huge luggages and two slightly smaller ones, to the school. It was the moving-in day for all the non-senior athletes, mathletes, and debaters, so the entire school was filled with cars and people. The first thing I did was to go to the main circle to register. Then I went to my mailbox and collected several things, including my telephone number and everything. The most exciting part came after I left the post office: I was going to get a school-issued Macbook Pro. 

   I thought I was going to have an used one, but it turned out that I got a brand new Macbook Pro with retina and Mountain Lion system. It was so freaking cool, and I just couldn't wait until the basic instruction was over to really try out the thing that I had wanted for my entire high school life. 

   After I got my computer I went to my dorm, which was probably the largest dorm on campus, Buehler. I had already known that my roommate was Anna, a day student, so I was surprised to see that she got a bed and a desk as well. Buehler got huge rooms, and the two posters that I had brought was clearly not enough. There was too much more space to fill, and I really think I should order some posters from Amazon to make my room look less tidy. 

   My mom helped me unpack for about an hour, and we headed to the dining hall before the Head of School was to give speech to new students and parents. The dining hall wasn't really as amazing as I had expected, but the salad bar was legit. Interesting enough, they had Chinese food for lunch as hot meals. I got some noodles and a large bowl of salad, with my favorite tuna fish and Hotchkiss mozzarella cheese, which was super satisfying. 

   After lunch was a speech given by the Head of School, Mr.Mckenzie, and it was for the purpose of getting us familiar with several important school faculty members. I really couldn't remember any of them (I tried, but I failed, obviously), and I decided that there were many other occasions in which I could get to know them, so no worries at all. 

   At the end of the speech, the headmaster told us to meet with our advisor after we left chapel, and I was fortunate to have found out that my advisor was Mr.Iannuzzi, or Charlie, if you had followed my other articles. I couldn't believe he had known that for such a long time but didn't tell me. He told me that the school thought that he was already really familiar with me and my circumstances in every way, so they asked if he wanted to be my advisor and he said yes. When I told other students that my advisor was Charlie, they got so jealous and they were all like "he is my favorite faculty member at Hotchkiss". 

   A senior brought me to his office, and I found two other students and their parents were there already. He would be advising eight students this year. Those two students apparently didn't know him before, so he did some basic introduction and his outline for this year's advisory group. After that I got to meet with my college advisor (whose name I still do not know), and along with Mr. Iannuzzi we had gone through my schedule, and we decided to get me into a higher level math course, and add an AP physics class. 

   I feel like all the advisors are not worried about whether I can fit in and catch up with my study AT ALL. They seem to be pushing me all the time; at first I decided to take three APs only, but now I have five. They also make sure that I am taking the highest level of anything, and they are all trying to make slight changes to my course selection so that it would look good on my college application. That is something that I have not expected, and I definitely appreciate all of this too. 

   In the afternoon I did my first pre-season math team practice with many other students. We were basically just doing some simple math quizzes (but fun!) which were all related to each other. It wasn't competitive, but more of a group work. I happened to know two girls on the team who also lived in Buehler, so we went changed and dinner together. At five thirty we all went to go hiking on Lion Head, a small mountain near Salisbury. It wasn't very high, and I got to chat with other returning students along the way. We got a great view on top of the mountain, and we had lollipops and everything. All of them were pretty neat. 

   At night I just played with my new laptop and tried to figure out all things worked. Several of the girls on my floor came to my room and said hi, so we chatted a little bit and visited other people's rooms. I wasn't really familiar with any of them, but their visits gave me more confidence in fitting into the group as a coming Upper Mid. 

   I was really tired right now after all the things I had done today (and more to come tomorrow!), but it's nice to finally be here. 

   Good night.