hey guys. glad you could join me for this post. i totally dont have anything written down for this post, so we're just gonna fly by the seat of our pants through this post, and we're gonna enjoy it. so here we go.
So last post was in the middle fo NSO staff days. Not much happened the rest of that day, wednesday. Thursday i had a lunch meeting wiht the faculty here. The lunch itself was fine, the food was good and i talked to the faculty member i was advisor aiding for. The bad part of the lunch was that they kept the students and such there for the full thing, thourgh all the announcements and talking about new stuff on the college's server that really only impacted the faculty (i.e. a math assessment test that we "guinea pigged" this year in order to assess where freshman who were pursuing the hard sciences) in short, if the freshmen get below a certain score on the assessment of Algebra, and stuff then they are strongly reccomended to take a new math course called "math for liberal arts" or somthign. Which is fine and dandy, but lets be honest, those of us on NSO (new student orientation) staff did not need to be there for the faculty discussion of the software and how it will wokr with advisoring and such. We could have left after the welcome talk and talkign wiht our advisor aides. There was also a few mroe other faculyt exclusive matters i had to sit through, which was mildly annoying and boring.
Thursday afternoon i went for a walk into town for exercise, which was fun and nice. that night i had a NSO staffe meeting in Wlkinson, which was essentially announcements about the next day and hten a run trhough of the committee skits. After that meeting i hung out here in my room and played Elderscrolls oblivion.
then, friday the freshman arrived finally and i was runnign around doing all sorts of things and stuff. I spent the monring from 9-11 helpign freshmen check into bundy and takign photos of them doing so for the theme committee. after that i went over to LBC to help direct people, i then got roped in to helpign with registration and throwing candy at the freshmen's cars as they drove up the main drive. all activities were fun and marked my morning. i met one of the freshmen at lunch and tlaked/ cuaght up wiht my old roommate, Eric. I then retunred to the candy throwing for a bit and then reutnred to my room. At 2 i went to eh NSO welcome talk, just because they needed the staff to stand up at the beginning, which we did. THen i directed freshmen and thier parents or advisory meetings from 4-5. I then was a door holder for a few people in saga, and then ate, met some more freshmen and then headed bakc here to bundy. I went on the slackline for a bit and hten came up here and hung out.
Saturday, the alst day wihtout my non-freshmen freinds here, was pretty chill. all i really had to do was proctor that math assessment thign for the fhreshmen at two different times. The nervewrackign thign about it (well thats not the right word), was that at the seocnd session (7:30-8:30 pm) i had to redirect like 20 freshmen to the proper labs. It seems that this year mroe then ever the freshies didnt knwo where thigns were on campus, or just didnt remember. I'm of the viewpoitn now that after the NSO welcome, there should be a mandatory tour of campus after the NSO welcome. The redirecting wasnt that bad, it was just somehwta annoyign to have to repeat directions after ebign completly flummoxxed by 30 freshmen bumrushing the lower lvel lab in lilly library (alliteration ftw) where there were only maybe 15 pc's available (the softwar is apparently PC only). but i managed, as did they and it went fine. Anyway, in the afternoon i moved stuff to my kitchen cabinet and then hung out a bunch. the "heart warming" dance party thing was that ngiht and i worked that and danced around for funs. spent the majority of the time dancing with/around two freshmen named Meg and Emma,both of whom are pretty cool. after that, i ame back here and hung out and schmoozed with a couple people on the hall and online.
Sunday was also low key, i worked on the NSO DVD wiht the production guy for a bit and then i helped a couple non-freshmen friends move stuff out of storage, which was fun, because i got to see them again we we got to guage how many boxes my car can carry. After that i proctored one final math Session, during whcih i had to re-direct a bunch of people again, but i had learned from the night prior and got everyone's names first. After the protoring, i meandered around campus, got foods and such and hung out. i showed up for the root beer and rockband NSO event later and that was fun, evn if it has a weakish turnout and i failed ast vocal 2 times on beatles rockband. there, i met again a freshmen named Maggie and i hung out with her and the aformentioned Emma girl at various points. From there, i came bakc to my room and hung out and invited Maggie over to hang out. We got to talking and bonding and then gave each toher back massages. It was a pretty awesome hangout, which didnt end til 3:15, and if i can maintain chilling wiht Maggie, she and i are gonna be close friends, which is awesome.
Thankfully i didnt have much gogin on monday, so i could sleep in from being up absurdly late. I did laudry, went to the convocation talk which was th =e author of the book the freshmen had to read. the talk was surpsingly good, considering i found the book agonizing dry for a 541 page war story. after the convo i hung otu wiht poeple who were moving in and had some general geekery. around 6:30 i met the faculty member i was advisor aiding and her advisees and we drove to her hosue for the advisory dinner. the prof lived 30 mins away, which was tiring. a few of us played billiards before dinner, and then we all had awesome burgers and such. after dinner we had a tlak about registration and eveyrhting. it was just a veyr funn evening that diddnt end until around 10:20 when i got back here. Then, i hung otu with people and my friend Betsy and i walked around campus tlakign about things.
YEsterday, Tuesday was fine. I got up early enought forenrollment confimration which had an absurdly long line for peopel wiht the last name a-h. i survived that and then got my books and coffee. i then hung out, went to lunch, bumped into my friend Amrit, talked wiht her for the longest time and then got binders and stuff for classses. Betsy, Maggie and i hung out last ngiht and i hung otu wiht SHelley after the Mentalist, which was surpsingly good. the dude finally switched some things around in his act after doing the same schtick 3 years in a row ( i dont remeber why i saw him sophmroe year, but last year i had to go cause i was ushering for fun committee for last year's NSO.
And now we're at today! wedensday, the first day of classes, which i'll recap in a bonus post once i've had all classes once.
comment below.
--Zack
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
weekly update 4/18/10
Yea so last week's post went up early. so thats whay the days on then are 8 apart. anyway, Welcome to this week's update, theres actually a fair amount to cover for once, so lets get onto it. so last wednesday was mainly filled wiht finalizing my packing and such and then doing some doctors appointments an getting my haircut. From there, i drove seom and otherwise jsut hung out wiht my parents and my dog.
Thursday and friday were what i had been looking forward too all summer. A road trip with my Dad out here to School. We had gone into wiht the goals of my getting some good rain driving practice and some practice on checking my blind spot before merging. THe latter i did when i was driving and now its like second nature for me to do its. Funnily enough on the rain drivign note, its would on drizzle on occasion when i drove that first day, and it poured when my dad was driving when we were in the mountains of maryland heading to west virginia. We stopped in Morgantown, WV for the night at a holiday inn not too far from the highway. Driving that day had been lots o fun and i was surpised at how natural highway driving was for me once i got on the DC beltway and all my future stints on the drive. we drove abotu 4 hours that day to morgantown, and two of the times we switched to the other person to drive we turned off at the most random places. We turned off one time at a country club type place that had many people playing golf. once we switched my dad found a strya golfball in the parking lot and i grabbed it and still have it. the other place we switched that sticks with me was when we exited the highway, pulled onto a side road and puled into some gravel pit by some hick house. it was kind of amusing. And then we kept drivign.
The second day of the roadtrip was fun. My dad started off and drove us to Washington PA, where we stopped and switched drivers. I then dorve to new cord ohio where we got lunch and switched drivers. parkign was aminor issue there, but it was fine. apparetnly theres a university right there named Muskingum university. he funny name. So then after eating we drove through ohio and my dad most of the flat part initially. Then i drove and it got hilly whcihc was hilarious. after my dad's next drive, we made a slight detour to Dayton Airport, just so i could get a feel for driving back to school from there. That was fun, and i was kinda surprised by how long the drive to the state line was. I then drove us into the hotel and yea. we then relaxed and got dinner eventually.
The next day, we woke up, got bob evans for breakfast and then spent the day practicing driving routes and saw The Expendables. The driving was fun, as was the movie. The back way i take in town to the movie seems to take a bit long though. Sunday we moved me in after getting food and dirving out to the uhaul place and getting the truck. it was fun to move in and dissassemble the extra bed in my room. We got my room squared away shortly after the NSO meeting that night and then retunred the Uhaul truck at 8 and then got a very late dinner. I've then been on my own on campus since that ngith and its fun. my room feels homey, though i feel tempted to get a rug.
my room has a view of the front area in front of bundy and the walk leading up to the HEart on campus. its nice.
On a music not, the new album from Filter dropped yesterday and to be breif, it straight up rocks. One of my favorite albums of the year for sure.
Thats it for me. comment below.
--Zack
Thursday and friday were what i had been looking forward too all summer. A road trip with my Dad out here to School. We had gone into wiht the goals of my getting some good rain driving practice and some practice on checking my blind spot before merging. THe latter i did when i was driving and now its like second nature for me to do its. Funnily enough on the rain drivign note, its would on drizzle on occasion when i drove that first day, and it poured when my dad was driving when we were in the mountains of maryland heading to west virginia. We stopped in Morgantown, WV for the night at a holiday inn not too far from the highway. Driving that day had been lots o fun and i was surpised at how natural highway driving was for me once i got on the DC beltway and all my future stints on the drive. we drove abotu 4 hours that day to morgantown, and two of the times we switched to the other person to drive we turned off at the most random places. We turned off one time at a country club type place that had many people playing golf. once we switched my dad found a strya golfball in the parking lot and i grabbed it and still have it. the other place we switched that sticks with me was when we exited the highway, pulled onto a side road and puled into some gravel pit by some hick house. it was kind of amusing. And then we kept drivign.
The second day of the roadtrip was fun. My dad started off and drove us to Washington PA, where we stopped and switched drivers. I then dorve to new cord ohio where we got lunch and switched drivers. parkign was aminor issue there, but it was fine. apparetnly theres a university right there named Muskingum university. he funny name. So then after eating we drove through ohio and my dad most of the flat part initially. Then i drove and it got hilly whcihc was hilarious. after my dad's next drive, we made a slight detour to Dayton Airport, just so i could get a feel for driving back to school from there. That was fun, and i was kinda surprised by how long the drive to the state line was. I then drove us into the hotel and yea. we then relaxed and got dinner eventually.
The next day, we woke up, got bob evans for breakfast and then spent the day practicing driving routes and saw The Expendables. The driving was fun, as was the movie. The back way i take in town to the movie seems to take a bit long though. Sunday we moved me in after getting food and dirving out to the uhaul place and getting the truck. it was fun to move in and dissassemble the extra bed in my room. We got my room squared away shortly after the NSO meeting that night and then retunred the Uhaul truck at 8 and then got a very late dinner. I've then been on my own on campus since that ngith and its fun. my room feels homey, though i feel tempted to get a rug.
my room has a view of the front area in front of bundy and the walk leading up to the HEart on campus. its nice.
On a music not, the new album from Filter dropped yesterday and to be breif, it straight up rocks. One of my favorite albums of the year for sure.
Thats it for me. comment below.
--Zack
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
weekly update 8/10/10
ok so here comes this weeks post. Early, but who cares.
We're gonna start off wiht music this week. Cause we have some news. One of my favorite bands, Alter Bridge, has released concrete info on their new album, which theyre saying is gonna be released someitme in the first 2 weeks of october, which means we're gonna get a single by the end of this month, maybe. anyway, we have an album title and a tracklisting. HEre's the info:
name: AB III‘.
Track list:
1. “Slip To The Void”
2. “Isolation”
3. “Ghost Of Days Gone By”
4. “All Hope Is Gone”
5. “Still Remains”"
6. “Make It Right”
7. “Wonderful Life”
8. “I Know It Hurts”
9. “Show Me A Sign”
10. “Fallout”
11. “Breathe Again”
12. “Coeur D’Alene”
13. "Life Must Go On"
14. "Words Darker Than Their Wings"
Thanks for the info tunelab.com and. If theres tracks i'm worried about based off only the titles, its "Make it right", "Wonderful life", and "I know it hurts", so almost the middle three, btu the latter could go sociopathically dark, which would be interesting. Myles Kennedy (the lead singer and rhythmn guitarist) has said Isolation is pretty heavy for a song. so we'll see. I'm digging SLip to the void, GHosts of Days gone by, all hope is gone, still remains, and fallout though. I know Coeur D'alene is Heart of something cause the first word is heart in french. I'm really looking forward to this album. Cant wait for the single...
so i've been losing wieght this week and i'm down to 182.5 lbs. lost 15 lbs this summer. YAY! Outside fo that, work ended friday and i'll miss the kids cause they were fun and work was fun. I'll miss the teacher i was working with. she was cooland very nice. this weekend was uneventful, just walking and planning out this week. I've had doctors appointments, packing, cleaning and errands this week to do acause i'm leaving thursday on a road trip out to earlham to have my car on campus and dthen get used to driving the richmond corridors before staff stuff for new student orientation begins. Should be a fun road trip. look for a full recap of it in next week's post on the 18th, whichll be still during Staff stuff. The week after that is the 25th, when classes start.
thaats all for me.
--Zack
We're gonna start off wiht music this week. Cause we have some news. One of my favorite bands, Alter Bridge, has released concrete info on their new album, which theyre saying is gonna be released someitme in the first 2 weeks of october, which means we're gonna get a single by the end of this month, maybe. anyway, we have an album title and a tracklisting. HEre's the info:
name: AB III‘.
Track list:
1. “Slip To The Void”
2. “Isolation”
3. “Ghost Of Days Gone By”
4. “All Hope Is Gone”
5. “Still Remains”"
6. “Make It Right”
7. “Wonderful Life”
8. “I Know It Hurts”
9. “Show Me A Sign”
10. “Fallout”
11. “Breathe Again”
12. “Coeur D’Alene”
13. "Life Must Go On"
14. "Words Darker Than Their Wings"
Thanks for the info tunelab.com and. If theres tracks i'm worried about based off only the titles, its "Make it right", "Wonderful life", and "I know it hurts", so almost the middle three, btu the latter could go sociopathically dark, which would be interesting. Myles Kennedy (the lead singer and rhythmn guitarist) has said Isolation is pretty heavy for a song. so we'll see. I'm digging SLip to the void, GHosts of Days gone by, all hope is gone, still remains, and fallout though. I know Coeur D'alene is Heart of something cause the first word is heart in french. I'm really looking forward to this album. Cant wait for the single...
so i've been losing wieght this week and i'm down to 182.5 lbs. lost 15 lbs this summer. YAY! Outside fo that, work ended friday and i'll miss the kids cause they were fun and work was fun. I'll miss the teacher i was working with. she was cooland very nice. this weekend was uneventful, just walking and planning out this week. I've had doctors appointments, packing, cleaning and errands this week to do acause i'm leaving thursday on a road trip out to earlham to have my car on campus and dthen get used to driving the richmond corridors before staff stuff for new student orientation begins. Should be a fun road trip. look for a full recap of it in next week's post on the 18th, whichll be still during Staff stuff. The week after that is the 25th, when classes start.
thaats all for me.
--Zack
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
weekly update 8/4/10
Theres some lyrics by M. Shadows of Avenged Sevenfold on his collaborative track wiht Slash of GNR fame on the latter's solo record that go somehting like this: "and still we march further away, singing out songs of yesterday, voices with nothing to say."
I feel somehow that applies to me this week as once again, i feel i have not much to say to you all this week. anywyay, onwards.
Last week fo work this week. ITs been very fun. The kids have been a handful at times but theyre fun. though one of them has categorically not payed attention when we've had to reprimand him. It surprises me how much energy these kids ahve sometimes as well as the personality types theyre already displaying. There's one kid who'll be the stereotypical Arrogant jock type (who knows if he'll do sports) because he ego is mildly inflated. there's the quiet kid who has lots of good ideas, but can be really shy in class work. There's the kid who will clearly be a scientist, or some sort of "ologist" person, because he loves knowledge and learnign about things. Then, there's the kid who always laughs and is reallly good at math and that sort of reasoning. we'll see how he ends up. Hopefully all of them stay in school.
so this past weekend i went up to NYC with my folks to see my sister. i got deathly sick the day we were heading up there, saturday, so yeah most of our plns for saturday got scrapped, except for getting awesome paninis from a place by my sister's apartment and hanging out. Also, i figured out that if i end up in NYC, 1) i wont have a car and 2) i really wan try and live in Astoria, Queens. Its a up and coming neighborhood wiht lots of cool stuff coming in. Saturday night my sister felt sick, so we all scrapped going to the NY Mets game as i was stil sick. Sunday i felt loads better but was fatigued from the cold meds. I really like NYC even if the Cabbies are a bit nuts.
So, i'm heading back to campus the day after next weeks post. if all goes well i'm driving out, and i'm leaving a day soner than normal so i can get the routes i'd use to get around in richmond, (groceries, movies, walmart, etc) down before stuff for NSO (new student orientation) staff starts. I'm an advisor aide this year for NSO which is awesome, but now i have to finish the book the freshman have to read. 368 pages in 10 days. whooo boy. but i'm an aide for a prof i like and who it'll help to get to know more, so thats awesome.
Two new TF pruchases with a Target giftcard, as a reward to myself for surviving work. PowerCore Combiner Huffer and Generations thrust. Awesome figures. More will come on my TF blog and on my youtube channel.
I'll end on a unrelated but very happy note, Prop 8 was ruled unconstitutional! yay!
Thats all this week, see told you i have not much to say.
--Zack
I feel somehow that applies to me this week as once again, i feel i have not much to say to you all this week. anywyay, onwards.
Last week fo work this week. ITs been very fun. The kids have been a handful at times but theyre fun. though one of them has categorically not payed attention when we've had to reprimand him. It surprises me how much energy these kids ahve sometimes as well as the personality types theyre already displaying. There's one kid who'll be the stereotypical Arrogant jock type (who knows if he'll do sports) because he ego is mildly inflated. there's the quiet kid who has lots of good ideas, but can be really shy in class work. There's the kid who will clearly be a scientist, or some sort of "ologist" person, because he loves knowledge and learnign about things. Then, there's the kid who always laughs and is reallly good at math and that sort of reasoning. we'll see how he ends up. Hopefully all of them stay in school.
so this past weekend i went up to NYC with my folks to see my sister. i got deathly sick the day we were heading up there, saturday, so yeah most of our plns for saturday got scrapped, except for getting awesome paninis from a place by my sister's apartment and hanging out. Also, i figured out that if i end up in NYC, 1) i wont have a car and 2) i really wan try and live in Astoria, Queens. Its a up and coming neighborhood wiht lots of cool stuff coming in. Saturday night my sister felt sick, so we all scrapped going to the NY Mets game as i was stil sick. Sunday i felt loads better but was fatigued from the cold meds. I really like NYC even if the Cabbies are a bit nuts.
So, i'm heading back to campus the day after next weeks post. if all goes well i'm driving out, and i'm leaving a day soner than normal so i can get the routes i'd use to get around in richmond, (groceries, movies, walmart, etc) down before stuff for NSO (new student orientation) staff starts. I'm an advisor aide this year for NSO which is awesome, but now i have to finish the book the freshman have to read. 368 pages in 10 days. whooo boy. but i'm an aide for a prof i like and who it'll help to get to know more, so thats awesome.
Two new TF pruchases with a Target giftcard, as a reward to myself for surviving work. PowerCore Combiner Huffer and Generations thrust. Awesome figures. More will come on my TF blog and on my youtube channel.
I'll end on a unrelated but very happy note, Prop 8 was ruled unconstitutional! yay!
Thats all this week, see told you i have not much to say.
--Zack
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