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.
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--Zack
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