New experience in academic area

Before I came to the new land that I had never been, Mom said that it took a certain time to adapt the new environment, both academically and socially. Well, it is definitely true. Every time I saw something different, good or bad or something totally beyond my imagination, I called my mom and told her what I experienced. Mom’s answer is all the same “oh, good, you are growing.” Yes, Mom is always true since she has experienced much more than I.
I had the experience to decide all the courses I want to take by myself, which is different from what I had in SCU, where I could only decide few of them. I am also free to drop any class that is not quite suitable for me. Oh, I dropped AST 210 before I took the class for it conflicted the time with MATH 348, one of the major requirements. I dropped PHYS 419 after I went to the first class for the professor warned us it was a writing class. I also dropped GER 101, which I had been to the class twice but found it not a good time for me to start the third language. I dropped MATH 535, which is a graduate math course (yes, it also took me a second more to register for that class). The last class (I really hope that is the last ever this semester) I dropped so far is CWL114. Literature class is not a good choice for international student for the first semester. I told me friends my amazing class dropping experience but only got a cold response that almost everyone does so in their first time. Well, I am nobody different. I just have a strange schedule now.
I went to an advisor to ask whether I could register for MATH 299 for I want to do more maths. She asked if I dropped MATH 241(it seems true what my friends said that many students do the same thing), to which my answer was no. Then she wondered what math courses I took now. I told her and got the reply that I did not have to take that course since I had one more advanced course. I was so down. But she gave me another choice to ask a math professor to instruct me on independent study. I was also so glad that my professor of MATH 461 consent it immediately. That means I have the chance to do what I want to about math. Awesome! Today I went to the computing applications building to overload one more credit hour to be ready to register for the new, excellent course.