What's happening? college-related only

It's been about two weeks since college and studying started..

At first my classmates were acting like strangers getting me really angry at them.. then *my dear Christian classmate finally started coming to college and upon complaining about the others' behavior to him, they immediately got back to normal and started acting like before..!
One thing that really upsets me about them is that they seem to consider lying to the prof. as a very normal, and very necessary thing. Also anybody who opposes them would be a traitor and a self-centered person. Now this is not the case with everyone, but the others don't act against it.

In general, and though I don't have enough experience to judge the year, I'd like to think that this year will be as enjoyable as my first year... Last year I had lost most of the fun by worrying and exaggerating things. This year I'm getting a bit careless when it comes to how I do in quizzes or how tidy my homework looks, also I'm trying to take it easy when I do not understand the lecture..

The subjects I like the most so far are:
*Microprocessors: The prof. is amazing.. Many people have a charming smile but none smiles so generously. My attention is divided between enjoying the smile and listening to him so competently explaining the lecture, which I really enjoy.
*DSP: The lecturer is a female, an amazing woman: intelligent, elegant, confident and beautiful. The material is enjoyable, it seems.. very similar to another I've taken last year, which I enjoyed very much.
*Control: The prof. is very capable and competent but tends to make us feel like little helpless incapable thingies that can't do a single thing! He's a challenge. I still like him though. The material looks enjoyable but older students say it gets really tough.
*Digital Communications: we still haven't taken enough lectures to judge the material or the lecturer but I am hoping it would be nice.

The remaining two subjects fall as victims to the incompetence of their lecturers who both tend to write a lot on the blackboard and do very little of explaining, I wish one of the other knowledgeable professors would attend one lecture of these and see how they go.
I understand that many of our competent staff have left the country.. but we're going to be the staff one day and it wouldn't be pretty if that's the way we're going to learn.
Now these are only two subjects so I'm not very pessimistic.. but I'm not optimistic either, at all.

Oh, and I almost forgot, there's lab, which seems to be easier than last year.. I can't stop smiling during the experiment!

On another note, I've gained 3 kilos since last year and have decided to maintain this weight.. finally! My appetite has gotten much better as I started taking multi-vitamins and minerals, with dad's consent of course. Also I'm sleeping much better (thanks to allergy pills), my classroom is in the ground floor, and most of the days we finish the lectures by 1:30 PM. In short, college life has gotten much easier than last year.


*Few days before college started, violent coward acts were committed towards the Christian people in Mosul causing many to leave the city.. At the beginning of this week some of the Christian students and employees in the university started coming back to college.