First Day Jitters

I have just arrived at home in Gaithersburg, Maryland at the end of the first day of Bootcamp. Right off the bat, I have had some of my expectations reversed: the number of women in our class, the number of people who have come from so far away to attend AU (you all make me feel lazy for complaining about my commute!) and the number of people who did not get their undergrad degrees in journalism. On the other hand, some of my expectations were confirmed, Professor Benedetto and Morrison's welcome emphasis on media convergence, my already-constant desire for prodigious amounts of coffee throughout the class and the fact that I was way too dressed up for the first day of class.
So right now, I am putting together a To-Buy list of needed items: definitely, a folder for the already- massive amounts of paper in my book bag, a zip drive and a SMALL reporting notebook that will actually fit in my purse next to my stash of Diet Coke.
Given the variety of experiences and backgrounds in our class, I would like to ask everyone to drop a line in their first post and tell me what they are taking for their elective class in the fall and why. First, I have a selfish reason -- I was talking to a classmate today who will be taking photography and I realized what a great option that would be for me in the spring, seeing as I am interested in print journalism and need to branch out a little. That said, this fall I will be taking a history course "America Through Immigrant Eyes."
As I said in class, I am married to a Peruvian immigrant and I wrote my undergrad thesis based on fieldwork with Afghan refugees in the U.S. I can't wait to take a look at the sweep of issues grouped under immigration and I welcome the chance to do a little bit of "fun" reading among all the HTML and journalism seminars this fall.