First Day

So today was my first class. Managed to find the building without incident. Then I walked in to the class, and my first thought was, "I'm the youngest person in here." Can't verify that, but there are quite a few older people in the class. In the back of my mind was the worry that I was in the wrong place. Or taking the wrong class. But no, it's the right class, even being a 400-level one. Ling 101 is basically the same thing I'm taking except at eight in the morning and less intense.

Why is it that there are so many vowel sounds, yet only five of the twenty-six letters of the English alphabet are vowels?

Oh, and I still need to find a place to put my car while I'm in class.