Academic Workshops are long

As part of international orientation a few weeks ago we were encouraged to attend an Academic workshop. By going, our fee for the academic assistance center would be waved. The undergraduate one was this morning at 10. Being a good student i figured why not, its free and informative and maybe there will be coffee. Well, it was free and there was coffee (eventually), but I could think of a few better ways to spend the first 4 hours of my saturday morning. Some of it was informative, like the part when they told us that if we were caught plagerizing in any way we would be expelled, deported and set on fire; but i found myself staring out the window most of the time waiting for the coffee break which was 2 hours in. The one cool part was the fact that i was the only American in a room of 50. This was the first time its happened to me since ive been here because a lot of the international students are from the US. It was good becasue it forced me to interact with people from other countries,a task which before, was easy to get around weather consciously or not. Hurah for cultural emersion!