First Day of Class - As the Matrix

You know that scene in the matrix?

When Neo tries to the jump sequence for the first time?

And fails? And falls?

And when they unplug him, his brain can't handle the total data overload from the alternate world, and he gaks on the floor?

That was my first day of class.

Okay, well I didn't puke.

But by the end of my 7th hour of total immersion in the academic Spanish language, I had an almost visceral reaction to my brain working in overtime, overloaded.

I think I know what it feels like to grow synapses.