Time to Blog

I know, I know, this is pretty late for an introduction post, but I don't have one yet and I feel that you readers should have some idea of where the ideas and stories on this blog come from. Also, I have to have this done by the end of the week. Expect most of my posts to come at crunchtime. It's not that I don't like to write; it is just that I have motivation issues. If you are wondering about my name, it is a variant spelling of "dark bear" in Old Norse. I think. Don't ask why I use this name because I haven't the slightest idea.

Anyway, I am a freshman in the College of Science, studying math (woohoo!). My friends pretend to hate my major, but they sure change their minds when homework comes due. I am in the fencing club here at Purdue, and am considering joining the Reamers club and the Society of Physics Students. I come from Lexington, Kentucky, which is the home of the University of Kentucky. We aren't very good at football, but we do well in basketball (mostly). While the vast majority of my friends went to UK, I convinced a couple to come to Purdue with me. One of them went into the college of engineering. He makes me very glad that I am in science instead. The other went into biology, which doesn't seem too bad. It appears to be about as tough as my own major (i.e. not very). You all will undoubtedly end up hearing more about these two friends eventually in my posts, since I am the one writing them and I probably spend 90 percent of my day with these people.

As to the topic of my posts, there will probably be no unifying theme or anything to hold all my writing together. I will post about whatever struck me as most interesting on a given day. However, I will try to write my posts with the welfare of freshmen everywhere in mind, enabling them to benefit from my mistakes and/or triumphs. I look forward to a semester of writing with you all!