…I'm really not enjoying it any more. I'm mostly fed up of it on Day Four now. I basically cannot stand the main course stuff they have, so it looks like I'm going to be living on pizza (when it's there), salad and fruit. Healthy? Maybe. Deeply satisfying? Not by a long shot. Also, I don't get what our dining hall's problem with orange juice is! They only serve it for breakfast on weekdays and brunch on weekends. For a person who primarily survives on the stuff, this is kind-of unacceptable. So, if you see a guy creeping into the Lag dining hall with an empty jug at breakfast time and heading towards the juice stall, come and say hi.
Sigh… everyone's split up into different dorms now and our dorm is far from most of them. But, still, I for one, am making (and hope to continue) some effort to go visit old friends as often as I can because it's fun to chat and also to not not keep in touch which is surprisingly easy to do. Also, it's fun to visit some of the other dorms. Toyon Hall is pretty awesome. It has incredibly high ceilings and it's really got very good lighting. The corridors and rooms are really, really bright. We also visited Cedro (my old all-frosh dorm) today and marveled at the mural we'd painted at the end of the last school year. Two of the squares are still incomplete but I think that adds to the charm somewhat; "…and this is the mural from 05-06 that was never completed…" (dramatic voice).
Freshmen really do get a lot of special treatment here; I know that now because I'm no longer one. There're only two kinds of people for the university: freshmen and !freshmen (also known as "upperclassmen" of which I am one now). Unlike India where freshmen are greeted with ragging (I hate ragging so much!), here there's a warm welcome at every step for freshman, and it's probably going to be my most memorable year. It was a lot of fun! Sigh…
Anyway, I'm stuck with a Mac mini right now. It's a good computer but I've always been an extremely power-hungry computer user and after a while even my old 2GHz Core Duo iMac had started feeling slow… so it's no surprise that I'm now desperately waiting for Apple to release some really awesome Core 2 Duo MacBook Pros that I can salivate over and then purchase to replace this ageing mini. Tomorrow's a good day. How about it Apple? Also, I managed to sell my speakers for $90 today - the Logitech Z-2300. They were used for only a month and so I thought this was a fair price. Why'd I sell 'em? Well, they were perfect except for (a) the subwoofer was way too big, (b) the entire system weighed 40 pounds (which meant that it was its own entire box when I needed to store it over the summer) and (c) I could never use the 400W of power in a dorm environment. So, an old 2.1 Altec Lansing that my brother'd got for me a couple of years ago was a better option. It sounds good and it's loud enough.
Also, I'm taking Chinese this quarter along with Physics and three Computer Science classes. It's going to be bad - 19 units; 18 if I drop that CS lab I'm taking. Classes start tomorrow at 9am and so I should get some sleep.
Sigh… everyone's split up into different dorms now and our dorm is far from most of them. But, still, I for one, am making (and hope to continue) some effort to go visit old friends as often as I can because it's fun to chat and also to not not keep in touch which is surprisingly easy to do. Also, it's fun to visit some of the other dorms. Toyon Hall is pretty awesome. It has incredibly high ceilings and it's really got very good lighting. The corridors and rooms are really, really bright. We also visited Cedro (my old all-frosh dorm) today and marveled at the mural we'd painted at the end of the last school year. Two of the squares are still incomplete but I think that adds to the charm somewhat; "…and this is the mural from 05-06 that was never completed…" (dramatic voice).
Freshmen really do get a lot of special treatment here; I know that now because I'm no longer one. There're only two kinds of people for the university: freshmen and !freshmen (also known as "upperclassmen" of which I am one now). Unlike India where freshmen are greeted with ragging (I hate ragging so much!), here there's a warm welcome at every step for freshman, and it's probably going to be my most memorable year. It was a lot of fun! Sigh…
Anyway, I'm stuck with a Mac mini right now. It's a good computer but I've always been an extremely power-hungry computer user and after a while even my old 2GHz Core Duo iMac had started feeling slow… so it's no surprise that I'm now desperately waiting for Apple to release some really awesome Core 2 Duo MacBook Pros that I can salivate over and then purchase to replace this ageing mini. Tomorrow's a good day. How about it Apple? Also, I managed to sell my speakers for $90 today - the Logitech Z-2300. They were used for only a month and so I thought this was a fair price. Why'd I sell 'em? Well, they were perfect except for (a) the subwoofer was way too big, (b) the entire system weighed 40 pounds (which meant that it was its own entire box when I needed to store it over the summer) and (c) I could never use the 400W of power in a dorm environment. So, an old 2.1 Altec Lansing that my brother'd got for me a couple of years ago was a better option. It sounds good and it's loud enough.
Also, I'm taking Chinese this quarter along with Physics and three Computer Science classes. It's going to be bad - 19 units; 18 if I drop that CS lab I'm taking. Classes start tomorrow at 9am and so I should get some sleep.
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