I just completed my first, and probably only, Second Life experience. For those who have not tried it yet, I recommend having a window open with a tutorial or other guide handy. (You will stand there with no idea of what to do next.) I found that there are people who will talk to you in the opening scene, but once I left there, I was pretty much on my own. Which is sort of good, because I was worried about stumbling into a "red light district."
I really had no idea where to go. I spent a lot of time both in SL and elsewhere on the Web looking for places to teleport to. I finally found the art galleries, and that kept me busy for the whole night. I recommend the Dresden Gallery - that was definitely my favorite.
I was taken aback by the fact that I would teleport from one place in broad daylight only to be in the dark a second later. Then I realized that they were probably trying to mimic the globe, where obviously half of the world is dark half the time.
Another note to my classmates: I recommend doing this at school unless you have an exceptionally fast broadband connection at home. I spent a lot of time waiting for things to load. When I first arrived at the Dresden Gallery, all I found when I spun around was fountains and flat land. Then the buildings slowly started to develop. Slooooooooowly.
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