 Hey everybody, my name is Ryan Guy and I'm the instructor for CMS T4, a small group discussion. If you didn't know already, this is a hybrid class, meaning that a chunk of the class will actually take place in a computer mediated environment while the performative aspects of the class will take place in an actual classroom. As we come into the first week of class, there's a couple things that I'd like to encourage you to do. First off, if you look directly below me, you're going to see a link for the syllabus. Before you come to the first night's class, you want to go ahead and read through all the requirements on that and make sure you understand what the class is about and are pretty sure that you want to stay in. Pay special attention to the last two pages of the syllabus because that's where the course calendar is. On there, you're going to see the dates that you'll actually need to come into class, work with your groups, take exams, as well as give group presentations. Attendance in this class, since we only meet a small number of times, is extremely important and absolutely mandatory. So look at those dates and make sure that that's going to work for you. I also like to encourage you to explore around our Blackboard page. Since a large chunk of the class takes place online, you want to start to get familiar. Now, I'm going to go through everything on Wednesday night, when we meet for the first time, but it's not a bad idea to go explore, check things out and get an idea of where things at and perhaps bring any questions that you have about the Blackboard page to class with you then. One special note, I've already mentioned that attendance is important, but attendance on the first night is extremely important. If you're not in attendance on the first night, I'm going to go ahead and drop you from the class and give your space to someone else. So please, please, please make sure that if you're enrolled in the class that you're there on the first night. Well, I'm looking forward to meeting you all. I hope you enjoy the last couple days of summer and I will see you all Wednesday night.