whe, it feels good to be back and blogging again. its been what, 2 weeks, somehting like that at least. actually looking at the main page in another tab, its been since the 21st, so yea, 2 weeks and 1 day. since the last post relevant to the point of this blog.
so yea in those two weeks, i had 1 test for a very hard psych prof, a few essays (one of which was 10-12 pages and kinda hard to write) and probably some other stuff i can't remember now, so yeah, thats why i was gone from this blog.
But yea. not much happened in those two weeks outside of work sadly, ntohign epicly awesome to report. just my usal life here: work, classes, collecting figures and being a generally socially awkward nerd. I've gained weight back since being back here, minaly form that 2 week high-stress period where i didnt do much exercise at all. so i think i'm up to 190lbs again. i'm doing trying to lose weight here cause every time i apply myself to do so, i always over eat or just outright fail for whatever reason. Maybe its my lack of self-control manifesting in that part of my life now as opposed to in my transformers collecting. My goal for now with my weight is to maintain my wieght where i can. Then during the summer, if i can drop down to where i should be, (170-175lbs) i can attempt to maintain that during my gap year. so yeah, i originally wanted to be around 170 by May, but idk if i can push myslef that here at college, when part of my issue is getting full on cafeteria food and gettin meals that may be too big when i eat in the coffeeshop.
wow, that was a longer tangent about weight than i was expecting. umm so lets see, i guess the only other thing is that i'm finally realizing i'm shit at telling stories to people. examples: lats friday i was at a friends birthday party and i had been drinking and i was reminded of a time on my Berlin may term (shout out to my firend Kaitlin who reads this blog) when i had drank very heavily at a movie and had somewhow ended up at my host family's place safe and sound. I was telling the story, which in my defense is a respectably funny story about me drinking at that time, and right after, one of my firends playfully jabbed at me and said, "yeah that story sucked." granted it coulda been worse because i was pretty inebriated, but yea. the other example is actuallly from last ngiht when i was watching a freind play Red Dead Redemption (google it) and at one point he, instead of hitting the command to talk to someone on the side of the road, he accidentally hit the "draw your gun" button to interatc with said person and everyone laughed hysterically at the in game NPC runnin away screaming. Now, whenever soemoen else came into the room and i tried to explain what had happened in the game, i always butchered the story of what happened and drew it out too much. I think thats my problem with telling stories, is that i'll drag them out too much. I'm gonna work on that. there's a motto we're goign by wiht our senior psych projects (expect a full write up on that here around mid-december) that goes soemthing like "Keep It Simple Stupid" or K.I.S.S and i think thats what i need to do with my stories. I need to save my verbosity for my academic essays, as long as i can back it up.
in other news, i;m more 50/50 on if i prefer my glasses or my contacts. i like the look both give me. additionally, i'm thinking i may grow my hair out again. idk i like having it short, mainly cause tis a pain when its long. hell it doenst even get long in the sens wher ti grows down to, and beyond, ponytail length. it just grow out and gets layered so i look like i have very moppy, shaggy hair. I grew my hair otu sophmore year of high school and while it was nice, i really hated walking to school with it because it was like insulation on my head that winter. I am nautrally warm, so yea.
still in other news, the baseball 2010 postseason is set. it starts today actually. we;ve got the Yankees facing the twins, the Rangers facing the Rays in the american league. we've got the braves facing the Giants and the Reds facing the Phillies in the National league. below are my biases and such.
Biases: hate the Yankees, Hate the Phillies. theyre the perennial powerhouses who have overpaid superstars. They always bring in the big named pitchers every offseason too, because apparently both teams still need pitching to this day. I know each seaosn is different, but i thought the Phillies rotation they had back in 2008 was just fine, they had no need to expand on that and get better. They won the world series with that rotation, which now has seen half of its members be traded or let go. Pitchers are some of the hardest workign players in the game and something about the Phillies and Yankees just tossing "youngish" arms out for proven seasoned veterans who they'll dump a truckload of money onto over 7-9 years just rubs me the wrong way.
I'm a big causal fan of the Rays. They play in Tampa bay, which is right next door to St. Peterburg in florida. If i hadnt decided to apply early decision to Earlham after falling in love wiht it as much, i would gone early action to here as well as Eckerd College in St. Pete. in fact they Rays were the underdog team back in the world series in the fall of 2007, when i was a freshman I can only imagine how electric the atmosphere in St.Pete and Tampa musta been after having the rays pretty much suck since their franchis was born in the mid 1990s. I really like what the owners of the Rays did with their organization.
It seems this years underdog team is the Reds, everyone expected them to suck this year, but they broke out of their shells and there's a lot of well-oiled parts meshing together for them this season. Their offense got better and their pitching improved from respectable, to pretty damn good if you ask me. Thier GM really knows what he's doing. I'm happy to see that franchise turn around now after it was wrecked by Jim Bowden after the days of the "Big Red Machine" in the early to mid 1990s.
oh and briefly, i really want the braves to at least go to the the NLCS if nto all the way this postseason. It's their manager, Bobby Cox, last season and he's such a great manager.
ok so my picks for each series (this is based off my mediocre knowledge of each team): Twins over Yankees in 5 games, Rangers over Rays in a neck-to-neck series that coems down to the wire in the 5th and final game. Braves over Giants in 5. and Reds over Phillies in 5 (reds will lose when phillies start Roy Halladay and Roy Oswalt, btu will rock house the other 3 games).
so that gives us an NLCS of Braves v. Reds and a ALCS of Twins v. Rangers. In the AL, i give the rangers the slgiht edge against the twins, mainly because a big part of the Twins' offense(Justin Morneau) is out this postseason and i dont thinkg they can handle not having him beyond the YAnkees series. The Rangers do have young ptihing after Cliff Lee, so that could hurt them. This series will go at least 5 games. Rangers win the series
for the Reds-Braves series, its hard to project out. both teams have solid pitching, and the offenses are btohe great, The Braves seem to have slightly better defense, so i'll give them the edge here. Braves win the series.
So that gives us a Braves v. Rangers world series, which probably wont happen (i'm shit at predictions). If it comes to this though, i think that while the Ranger's bats will give them plenty of offense, their pitching will pale in comparison to the Braves. But due to the offense prowess of both sides, expect at least 5 games. In Bobby Cox's last season, the Braves win the World Series. i'm not predicting in how many games.
so yea, thats my update. see you all next week. Comment below.
--Zack
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
a quick thought
Nancy Harvey wrote back in 1998 that parents and children were laughing at responsibility's face and ignoring self-discipline. The children that went through this will be 12 this year. Did this mentality in the late 90s lead to today's "i've got to get what I want right now, and my parents will let me get it" metality? is this the mentality that led to the whiny, pessismistic brat demographic that is so prevalent today? Discuss.
For those interested in the basis of this topic, look up a bref article she wrote called "the imitation of mr. starbuck" link below.
http://www.leaderu.com/ftissues/ft9808/opinion/harvey.html
comment with your thoughts.
--Zack
For those interested in the basis of this topic, look up a bref article she wrote called "the imitation of mr. starbuck" link below.
http://www.leaderu.com/ftissues/ft9808/opinion/harvey.html
comment with your thoughts.
--Zack
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
activate mini-hiatus!
yea, thats right andy regular readers fo this. i'm taking a mini hiatus from posting here starting today and enidng around october 1st. got a lot of work between now and then.
see you all then
--Zack
see you all then
--Zack
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
weekly update 9-14-10: ramblings and another mini-hiatus?
hey all, back for this week's update.
lets get crackin, shall we?
ok so as youve noticed, this post is going up early. Thats because i'm donating blood tomorrow during my usual blog time so yea.
Thursday last week was pretty mundane outside of work and such. i had schedules to do laps, btu i believe work got in the way, or i got lazy. well, yea work gets precednce over exercise for me. cause i like to just sit down and work, even with distraction. i also dont like working too late into the night.
Friday: Mundane mornign, as i finished up sense and senibility (finally) and then went to lunch and my last class for the day. after that i planned otu my weekend and then hung out with one of my freinds over smoothies and here in my room. we hadnt caught up in a while so it was really nice to do so. That night was the SAB money giveaway thing. i just socialized with friends. i didnt win any $. oh well.
Saturday was very much work filled as the assingment i had thought would be short was anything but. it was easy but very time consuming. so yay for wokring 10-5:30 witha brunch break on the weekend. and no i'm nto complaining. saturday night i simply walked around and hung out.
Sunday was light on work, but still spent sveeral hours working on my senior psych intro outline round 2. round three is dues friday. so yeah. i need to stop being distracted when i get done wiht class for the day and i'm starting work at like 2:45 or so in the afternoon.
Monday, yesterday was fine, i managed to beats out half of a paper in an hour and a half which made me happy.
Tuesday (today): finished that paper otday on top of some reading fro that same class (i'm fining myslef not caring about the poetry and narrative stuff we read unless i have to write somethign for the class on it. is this mild senioritis? i dont know.
ok, so remeber that bloggin hiatus i took last fall? well as a minor heads up, i may have to take one again. stuff gonna get mad busy starting this weekend and going until around october 1st. so if i dont post here after today, you know why.
and now for something completly different!!!!
a heartwarming story: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2011740342_electronboy30m.html
ok so, i love this story. It makes me so happy that all these people came together to make the dream of a kid living with Liver Cancer come true. especially those two guys from Deadliest Catch. That's so wondeful that people have their hearts in the right place. that's my thoughts onthis in a nutshell.
And thats it for this week guys. Wow a short one, eh?
Thansk for reading, comment below if you wish. Now, follow me on twitter: twitter.com/phoenix88tf
lets get crackin, shall we?
ok so as youve noticed, this post is going up early. Thats because i'm donating blood tomorrow during my usual blog time so yea.
Thursday last week was pretty mundane outside of work and such. i had schedules to do laps, btu i believe work got in the way, or i got lazy. well, yea work gets precednce over exercise for me. cause i like to just sit down and work, even with distraction. i also dont like working too late into the night.
Friday: Mundane mornign, as i finished up sense and senibility (finally) and then went to lunch and my last class for the day. after that i planned otu my weekend and then hung out with one of my freinds over smoothies and here in my room. we hadnt caught up in a while so it was really nice to do so. That night was the SAB money giveaway thing. i just socialized with friends. i didnt win any $. oh well.
Saturday was very much work filled as the assingment i had thought would be short was anything but. it was easy but very time consuming. so yay for wokring 10-5:30 witha brunch break on the weekend. and no i'm nto complaining. saturday night i simply walked around and hung out.
Sunday was light on work, but still spent sveeral hours working on my senior psych intro outline round 2. round three is dues friday. so yeah. i need to stop being distracted when i get done wiht class for the day and i'm starting work at like 2:45 or so in the afternoon.
Monday, yesterday was fine, i managed to beats out half of a paper in an hour and a half which made me happy.
Tuesday (today): finished that paper otday on top of some reading fro that same class (i'm fining myslef not caring about the poetry and narrative stuff we read unless i have to write somethign for the class on it. is this mild senioritis? i dont know.
ok, so remeber that bloggin hiatus i took last fall? well as a minor heads up, i may have to take one again. stuff gonna get mad busy starting this weekend and going until around october 1st. so if i dont post here after today, you know why.
and now for something completly different!!!!
a heartwarming story: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2011740342_electronboy30m.html
ok so, i love this story. It makes me so happy that all these people came together to make the dream of a kid living with Liver Cancer come true. especially those two guys from Deadliest Catch. That's so wondeful that people have their hearts in the right place. that's my thoughts onthis in a nutshell.
And thats it for this week guys. Wow a short one, eh?
Thansk for reading, comment below if you wish. Now, follow me on twitter: twitter.com/phoenix88tf
quckie update 9-14-10
Hey guys. just to update any reder. this weeks life in brief post will probably go up either tonight (tuesday) or tomorrow night (wednessay 9/15/10). I'm donating blood during my usual blogging time wedensday AM and i will be mired in work wendesday afternoon.
--Zack
--Zack
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
weekly update 9-8-10: blog paradox!!!
Yea so i wanted to put a funny title there for once. Anyway, before i get rolling, you may or may nto have notice i deleted last weeks post. basically i did that to cover my tracks. in retrospect, i said some things in that post that i shouldnt have, and one of my freinds ntoified me that people were talking and i should watch myself. now i've ratcheted some stuff back, cause she said the people were talking bad things abotu me. now i know people will always talk, but i covered my tracks a bit and well yea. I didnt think i was doing thigns too abnormal though. whatever. So thats why lats week's post was deleted and not pared down
Soo, lets get too it.
So classes are underway and have been for about 2 weeks. Feels like tis been longer, btu its going to be a fun, busy semester. theres a great dynamic among the students and prof in both Words and Works of Ancietn rome and in romanticism. Though, i'm nto feeling the first book for romaticism and yea. anyway. senior psych research is going well i have a very firm idea fo what i'm gonna reaserch. History of Psych is fun, lot of information, and everyone seems to not be talking much cause of other prioroties, btu its still fun. moral education has some very interesting discusssion poitns and such and i like the structure of the class. I love the prof, and the different topics we'll cover in the class will be intriguing.
Yay classes recap in brief. Anyway, onto the day by day recap.
Thursday and firdya were pretty much routine, just workin and hangin wiht people (yea i had to work on firday (sadface)). i had a project proposal for senior research due on tuesday so i wanted to get that done sunday, and to do so, i needed to work on one assingment and get it done. Saturday was work filled on things for words and works, and romanticism and i think one of my other classes. after that, i socialized ab bunch and hten wnet ot SAB bingo night. after a long stretch of wanting the prizes and not winning, i finally got bingo and dthe prizes was a 3 piece set of a coffeemaker, iron and skillet. I've made food on the skillet and have so used the coffeemake hardcore. My reaction after i won was absurd. I had bee whispering the numbers i needed to myself, and they both got called. I yelled bingo in my normal voice and then Ninja'd my way very fast and awkwardly around this sophmore Sean that i kind of know and then i pointed to the places on my board and i won. I think at some point i said "That's me" in a very high pitched voice. ugh i have messed up vocal chords.
Sunday was filled wiht wokring on senior psych and i managed to skype wiht my folks which made me very happy. It was great to finally see my dad after his surgery (if you follow me on facebook you know what this is about, if not, just ask). Monday was a normal monday 2 classes and work stuffs. oy. same for yesterday but yesterday was long. For soem reason Moral Education doesnt go by fast, at least not yet.
That brings us to today. Romanticism was fun, ad i need to think of an essay topic to outline over the weeknd or on monday.
Lastly, over the past week, Disturbed released their new album. I'm not too blown away by it, i may get it at some point, but the first single came across as a bit preachy for the band for me and while the title track is very solid and has a great music video, i feel like parts of the song are drawn out and not really well put together. The thing that grabbed me about the new Disturbed album, is that they did a secret hidden track after the last track of the album. the secret track, being secret had a minute 30 of filler, which is really annoying the filler is just dead air and i really dont like when bands do that. Just stick the track at the end and keep it off the tracklisting. anyway, the track thats secret is a cover of "I still havent found what I'm looking for" by U2. IT's a surprisingly awesome rendition of it, the guitar solo seems a bti too sped up and out of place, but other than that, i have no qualms. link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9jXHkHRubk
the thing i'm most happy about wiht music is thatALter Bridge leaked their first Single "Isolation" off thier comign Album, ABIII, via Roadrunner records UK. Its also on youtube, so i'll put a link after this, but yea. wow. i love this song. its hard hittign the lyrics are great and there's an awesome feel to it cause the lead vocalist, Myles Kennedy solos on the track and his guiatr work has greatly inproved with each Alter Bridge album. hopefully the rest of the album is like this and yea. it's due out mid-october here in the US i believe, so yea. its pretty much a day 1 purchase for me. in fact, i'm gonna go look at alter bridge posters. link to the song:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9S9D5RRwQ8g
see you guys next week.
--Zack
Soo, lets get too it.
So classes are underway and have been for about 2 weeks. Feels like tis been longer, btu its going to be a fun, busy semester. theres a great dynamic among the students and prof in both Words and Works of Ancietn rome and in romanticism. Though, i'm nto feeling the first book for romaticism and yea. anyway. senior psych research is going well i have a very firm idea fo what i'm gonna reaserch. History of Psych is fun, lot of information, and everyone seems to not be talking much cause of other prioroties, btu its still fun. moral education has some very interesting discusssion poitns and such and i like the structure of the class. I love the prof, and the different topics we'll cover in the class will be intriguing.
Yay classes recap in brief. Anyway, onto the day by day recap.
Thursday and firdya were pretty much routine, just workin and hangin wiht people (yea i had to work on firday (sadface)). i had a project proposal for senior research due on tuesday so i wanted to get that done sunday, and to do so, i needed to work on one assingment and get it done. Saturday was work filled on things for words and works, and romanticism and i think one of my other classes. after that, i socialized ab bunch and hten wnet ot SAB bingo night. after a long stretch of wanting the prizes and not winning, i finally got bingo and dthe prizes was a 3 piece set of a coffeemaker, iron and skillet. I've made food on the skillet and have so used the coffeemake hardcore. My reaction after i won was absurd. I had bee whispering the numbers i needed to myself, and they both got called. I yelled bingo in my normal voice and then Ninja'd my way very fast and awkwardly around this sophmore Sean that i kind of know and then i pointed to the places on my board and i won. I think at some point i said "That's me" in a very high pitched voice. ugh i have messed up vocal chords.
Sunday was filled wiht wokring on senior psych and i managed to skype wiht my folks which made me very happy. It was great to finally see my dad after his surgery (if you follow me on facebook you know what this is about, if not, just ask). Monday was a normal monday 2 classes and work stuffs. oy. same for yesterday but yesterday was long. For soem reason Moral Education doesnt go by fast, at least not yet.
That brings us to today. Romanticism was fun, ad i need to think of an essay topic to outline over the weeknd or on monday.
Lastly, over the past week, Disturbed released their new album. I'm not too blown away by it, i may get it at some point, but the first single came across as a bit preachy for the band for me and while the title track is very solid and has a great music video, i feel like parts of the song are drawn out and not really well put together. The thing that grabbed me about the new Disturbed album, is that they did a secret hidden track after the last track of the album. the secret track, being secret had a minute 30 of filler, which is really annoying the filler is just dead air and i really dont like when bands do that. Just stick the track at the end and keep it off the tracklisting. anyway, the track thats secret is a cover of "I still havent found what I'm looking for" by U2. IT's a surprisingly awesome rendition of it, the guitar solo seems a bti too sped up and out of place, but other than that, i have no qualms. link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9jXHkHRubk
the thing i'm most happy about wiht music is thatALter Bridge leaked their first Single "Isolation" off thier comign Album, ABIII, via Roadrunner records UK. Its also on youtube, so i'll put a link after this, but yea. wow. i love this song. its hard hittign the lyrics are great and there's an awesome feel to it cause the lead vocalist, Myles Kennedy solos on the track and his guiatr work has greatly inproved with each Alter Bridge album. hopefully the rest of the album is like this and yea. it's due out mid-october here in the US i believe, so yea. its pretty much a day 1 purchase for me. in fact, i'm gonna go look at alter bridge posters. link to the song:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9S9D5RRwQ8g
see you guys next week.
--Zack
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
weekly update 8/25/10: Flying by the seat of my pants
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
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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