Since many of my last blogs haven't had any focus whatsoever, I'm going to discuss the whole "adding people on facebook before meeting them in person at college" phenomenon. My roommate is sleeping (but is a heavy sleeper, thank god!) so I have to make it brief.
Before coming here, I added maybe 60 people because I was so pumped to meet everyone. There were a couple of people who really went out of their way to talk to people like everyday just on facebook. It was a good way to pre-socialize. What's weird is when you walk around and meet people, forget you added them on facebook, and they're like "oh yeah i recognize you from facebook". It kinda creeps me out even though usually i'm the one adding everyone.
It's also interesting to compare people on the internet and in real life, because we only see some facets of people online so you can't form a real idea of their personality. You don't know their height, or if they're quiet or outgoing, and other things which really affect how you interact with them.
It's easy to tell who is playing football on campus and whatnot, and it's easy to jump to conclusions. From perusing this guy's facebook (he's in one of my classes and in my squad) I saw that he was a football player and he didn't seem like someone i'd ever socialize with, but it turns out we've both lived in Cape Town and he's actually a cool person; snap judgments are not a good thing.
Well that's just my weird blog entry, I'm gonna go canoe tomorrow and then camp and hike the next day...bye!
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Chamber of Secrets?
It's getting harder and harder to find time to blog, and when I do it's a stream-of-conciousness rambling type of bog and not a well thought out and constructed one. Oops.
Tomorrow I leave for a two day camping trip (first time camping!) and we'll be canoeing as well. I leave around 8, which means I'll have to blog super early?
Maybe I'll just blog at 12:01 today.
Things are going well here...I'm just repeating myself, really. Yesterday I went out on my own to find people and succeeded in joining a group of northerners (meaning they're from North Hall) and going to a "college party" which wasn't that exciting. I want the awesome dance parties that happen every month :D They're called TAPs, The Amherst Party, and have special themes.
It's harder for someone like me to make friends right away, because I'm the listening, observant type. Here, you have to make an effort to put yourself out there. I can't tell you how many times I've said "I'm Yasmina, I'm from Winston Salem North Carolina (Blank looks make me continue with "Where Wake Forest is" which leads to recognition. I'll leave out the whole underwear-hot sauce-doughnut-tobacco capital of the world thing out for now).
I'm having fun though. I branched out at the President's Barbecue and sat with some new people. They got onto the subject of the nicest dorm of campus, which has been described as a ski lodge and Hogwarts. It's called Charles Pratt, and it's a first year dorm. A girl said that she didn't get why people thought it looked like Hogwarts, and that she saw that someone started a Harry Potter board on the facebook group and she wasn't into it. It's cool that she's not into it, I don't have a problem with that, I just thought it was funny because I actually started that group. NERD NERD NERD :D I bruoght my Hogwarts glass, my lanyard and HP 4.
Today there were a couple of skits about student health, like sex, alchohol and such. In one of the skits, this guy was like "So have you entered her Chamber of Secrets yet?" and it was amazing. I love HP pick up lines and such.
Well I have to go to a lecture about another book thing we read, concerning race and class at an elite college...or something. Adios!
Tomorrow I leave for a two day camping trip (first time camping!) and we'll be canoeing as well. I leave around 8, which means I'll have to blog super early?
Maybe I'll just blog at 12:01 today.
Things are going well here...I'm just repeating myself, really. Yesterday I went out on my own to find people and succeeded in joining a group of northerners (meaning they're from North Hall) and going to a "college party" which wasn't that exciting. I want the awesome dance parties that happen every month :D They're called TAPs, The Amherst Party, and have special themes.
It's harder for someone like me to make friends right away, because I'm the listening, observant type. Here, you have to make an effort to put yourself out there. I can't tell you how many times I've said "I'm Yasmina, I'm from Winston Salem North Carolina (Blank looks make me continue with "Where Wake Forest is" which leads to recognition. I'll leave out the whole underwear-hot sauce-doughnut-tobacco capital of the world thing out for now).
I'm having fun though. I branched out at the President's Barbecue and sat with some new people. They got onto the subject of the nicest dorm of campus, which has been described as a ski lodge and Hogwarts. It's called Charles Pratt, and it's a first year dorm. A girl said that she didn't get why people thought it looked like Hogwarts, and that she saw that someone started a Harry Potter board on the facebook group and she wasn't into it. It's cool that she's not into it, I don't have a problem with that, I just thought it was funny because I actually started that group. NERD NERD NERD :D I bruoght my Hogwarts glass, my lanyard and HP 4.
Today there were a couple of skits about student health, like sex, alchohol and such. In one of the skits, this guy was like "So have you entered her Chamber of Secrets yet?" and it was amazing. I love HP pick up lines and such.
Well I have to go to a lecture about another book thing we read, concerning race and class at an elite college...or something. Adios!
Monday, August 30, 2010
I should go ahead and do today's blog because I will be going to a barbecue at the president's house, a lecture, a squad meeting, and various other things today. ridiculous. and it's almost 5:30.
i'm taking four classes: friendship (my freshman seminar), math 5 (calc with algebra), early modern europe (historyyyy!) and french 7 (intro to lit and culture). french 7 is for people who did ap sooo i hope it's not too difficult. as for math...i think i might as well take calc since i did precalc and i don't want that to go to waste, but i do dislike math. i couldn't have four humanities classes though, i want to think outside the box, and with math as my base i can do econ, chem and other things.
our floor is pretty neat. we have 20ish people here, guys and girls, and they're all nice so far but i haven't met all of them. the buildings are gorgeous, the food is tolerable, the professors are really amazing, and the hills are many and good for your calves. overall, i'm perfectly satisified so far, on my second day.
my parents are trekking back home. goodbye was strange, but it's not really goodbye.
wicked reference what? maybe, i don't rememeber the song lyrics.
regardless
...
bye!
i'm taking four classes: friendship (my freshman seminar), math 5 (calc with algebra), early modern europe (historyyyy!) and french 7 (intro to lit and culture). french 7 is for people who did ap sooo i hope it's not too difficult. as for math...i think i might as well take calc since i did precalc and i don't want that to go to waste, but i do dislike math. i couldn't have four humanities classes though, i want to think outside the box, and with math as my base i can do econ, chem and other things.
our floor is pretty neat. we have 20ish people here, guys and girls, and they're all nice so far but i haven't met all of them. the buildings are gorgeous, the food is tolerable, the professors are really amazing, and the hills are many and good for your calves. overall, i'm perfectly satisified so far, on my second day.
my parents are trekking back home. goodbye was strange, but it's not really goodbye.
wicked reference what? maybe, i don't rememeber the song lyrics.
regardless
...
bye!
Sunday, August 29, 2010
COLLEGE!
After 13 hours of traveling, a minor crisis concerning hotels, and waking up really early, I finally got to my destination: AMHERST.
First of all, the town is absolutely wonderful. It's a college town (voted best in America last year) and there were people holding up signs that said "peace" and "anti-nuclear...something" and it was just beautiful. I know this is common here but I was like OH MY GOD THIS IS AMAZING.
My dorm room is very very nice. It's a corner room, and we have lots of storage and space under our beds. I put up my books (Harry Potter 4, Mockinjay, Will Grayson Will Grayson, The Golden Compass, two student dictionaries and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close), and pictures, and al sorts of randomness that comes with dorms. My roommate IS A HARRY POTTER FAN AND HAS HERMIONE'S WAND and is a HEAVY SLEEPER and is MESSY. These are good things. I am messy, and I think it's good that we're together because we can be like "oh hey, we're getting out of control" and it won't be weird to have a really neat side and a really messy side.
or maybe it's just a recipe for chaos.
regardless i am sooo happy.
my floormmates and i went downtown, to "bond" i suppose. downtown is like one street. It's really neat. that rhymed.
they're really nice people, from all over. well, mostly new york or massachusetts. there's a guy from virginia (the south! that is rare here) and another guy from florida. a few girls from new york are really into harry potter which makes me happy--->midnight release, for sure
it's been slightly odd. i'm a listener, not a talker, so most of the time i'm observing. but here i have to get into conversations, and meet people and such, and it's not something i'm used to but it's something i'm going to have to get used to.
by the way, the air here smells of education and learning and amazingness. i'm probably imagining this but it's sooo great.
i'm leaving in an hour to go to the campus center thing, there will be laser tag. tomorrow is advising. the next day is my canoeing and camping trip.
oh man.
First of all, the town is absolutely wonderful. It's a college town (voted best in America last year) and there were people holding up signs that said "peace" and "anti-nuclear...something" and it was just beautiful. I know this is common here but I was like OH MY GOD THIS IS AMAZING.
My dorm room is very very nice. It's a corner room, and we have lots of storage and space under our beds. I put up my books (Harry Potter 4, Mockinjay, Will Grayson Will Grayson, The Golden Compass, two student dictionaries and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close), and pictures, and al sorts of randomness that comes with dorms. My roommate IS A HARRY POTTER FAN AND HAS HERMIONE'S WAND and is a HEAVY SLEEPER and is MESSY. These are good things. I am messy, and I think it's good that we're together because we can be like "oh hey, we're getting out of control" and it won't be weird to have a really neat side and a really messy side.
or maybe it's just a recipe for chaos.
regardless i am sooo happy.
my floormmates and i went downtown, to "bond" i suppose. downtown is like one street. It's really neat. that rhymed.
they're really nice people, from all over. well, mostly new york or massachusetts. there's a guy from virginia (the south! that is rare here) and another guy from florida. a few girls from new york are really into harry potter which makes me happy--->midnight release, for sure
it's been slightly odd. i'm a listener, not a talker, so most of the time i'm observing. but here i have to get into conversations, and meet people and such, and it's not something i'm used to but it's something i'm going to have to get used to.
by the way, the air here smells of education and learning and amazingness. i'm probably imagining this but it's sooo great.
i'm leaving in an hour to go to the campus center thing, there will be laser tag. tomorrow is advising. the next day is my canoeing and camping trip.
oh man.
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Massachusetts: Land of Awesome
I'm in SPRINGFIELD MASSACHUSETTS.
Massachusetts. Land of awesome. And college. And awesome colleges.
I'm currently in a hotel room that is NON-SMOKING, yay! (after last night, it's a big deal).
Also, I move in tomorrow around 9 and meet my roommate and stuff
It'll be coooool.
And I hope it'll go well!
I'll get my fridge and such. Say goodbye to the fam, start the next four years of my life etc...
or to be less-dramatic, I'll just be at school until November (break) and then a month off for Christmas.
I can pretend I'm at Hogwarts!
It's dinner time. Goodbye!
Massachusetts. Land of awesome. And college. And awesome colleges.
I'm currently in a hotel room that is NON-SMOKING, yay! (after last night, it's a big deal).
Also, I move in tomorrow around 9 and meet my roommate and stuff
It'll be coooool.
And I hope it'll go well!
I'll get my fridge and such. Say goodbye to the fam, start the next four years of my life etc...
or to be less-dramatic, I'll just be at school until November (break) and then a month off for Christmas.
I can pretend I'm at Hogwarts!
It's dinner time. Goodbye!
Friday, August 27, 2010
Bethel, Pennsylvania: Famished Amish
I'm en route to Massachusetts at the moment (for COLLEGECOLLEGECOLLEGE) and thus excited. We had to stop to get some ZZZZZZs here, and the only available room with enough beds was...a smoking room. It's kinda overpowering but I'll get used to it...I just hope my clothes don't smell of it. Ew.
Today we went to ANTIETAM and it was SO AWESOME because it smelled of HISTORY HISTORY HISTORY
and I'm a history nerd so I was like AHHHH
except it's not really a "good" time in history. Bloodiest battle of the civil war and all...yeah...but so cool because I've never been to a battlefield before!
It was...well, it was a field. It had monuments in it. And a cool visitor's center.
AND CANNONS!
SO yeah. That was cool.
Today also consisted of:
reading mockingjay
being bored by the car ride
taking pictures
taking pictures of myself because i was bored
going to a sketchy diner, having yummy food, and it had a TOWEL dispenser. WHAT THE HECK.
So yeah
Today we went to ANTIETAM and it was SO AWESOME because it smelled of HISTORY HISTORY HISTORY
and I'm a history nerd so I was like AHHHH
except it's not really a "good" time in history. Bloodiest battle of the civil war and all...yeah...but so cool because I've never been to a battlefield before!
It was...well, it was a field. It had monuments in it. And a cool visitor's center.
AND CANNONS!
SO yeah. That was cool.
Today also consisted of:
reading mockingjay
being bored by the car ride
taking pictures
taking pictures of myself because i was bored
going to a sketchy diner, having yummy food, and it had a TOWEL dispenser. WHAT THE HECK.
So yeah
Thursday, August 26, 2010
The Hunger Games: Musical Companion!
I've decided to write today's blog early because I already know today's plans: get ready for leaving tomorrow, do laundry, finish Doctor Who, and cook. Right now I want to make a playlist for The Hunger Games (I'm 75% finished, I'm saving the rest of Mockingjay for tomorrow's long car ride). I have to finish the blog portion though, so let me continue...
This morning I had breakfast with Aly which was fun, then I came home and got my tripod out and took jumping pictures and got attacked by mosquitoes (at like 10:30 A.M, why?), and then I made a video...and did laundry. I have to start cooking soon. Fun stuff, I know.
I've been done with packing for almost a week now, so there's no last minute rush for anything. I need to charge my iPod and pack my backpack and stuff like that, but nothing super-major.
So here goes the playlist
Clocks-Coldplay
World Spins Madly On-The Weepies
Help I'm Alive-Metric
Geared for Action-Jet Lag Gemini
Time is Running Out-Muse
Burning for You-Shiny Toy Guns (cover of the Blue Oyster Cult song)
You Really Got a Hold on Me-She & Him
Then I got distracted by a fly in my room and lost interest in the playlist-making-feat.
Soooo this blog is generally uninteresting!
Oh. I hate music snobs-people who think they're better than other people because their music is not as well-known, and who stop liking bands because they get popular.
If you like your band you should be happy for them!
That is all.
This morning I had breakfast with Aly which was fun, then I came home and got my tripod out and took jumping pictures and got attacked by mosquitoes (at like 10:30 A.M, why?), and then I made a video...and did laundry. I have to start cooking soon. Fun stuff, I know.
I've been done with packing for almost a week now, so there's no last minute rush for anything. I need to charge my iPod and pack my backpack and stuff like that, but nothing super-major.
So here goes the playlist
Clocks-Coldplay
World Spins Madly On-The Weepies
Help I'm Alive-Metric
Geared for Action-Jet Lag Gemini
Time is Running Out-Muse
Burning for You-Shiny Toy Guns (cover of the Blue Oyster Cult song)
You Really Got a Hold on Me-She & Him
Then I got distracted by a fly in my room and lost interest in the playlist-making-feat.
Soooo this blog is generally uninteresting!
Oh. I hate music snobs-people who think they're better than other people because their music is not as well-known, and who stop liking bands because they get popular.
If you like your band you should be happy for them!
That is all.
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Esther Earl (crazycrayon)passed away earlier today; although I've only seen a few of her videos/skimmed her Tumblr, I felt for her family...DFTBE, guys
to the well organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
Today, I also
-made brownies
-got halfway through mockingjay
-got halfway through season 4 of doctor who
-gave my brother advice about high school
-made fun of my brother about high school
-decided a list format would be best for today's blog
live long and prosper, friends
to the well organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
Today, I also
-made brownies
-got halfway through mockingjay
-got halfway through season 4 of doctor who
-gave my brother advice about high school
-made fun of my brother about high school
-decided a list format would be best for today's blog
live long and prosper, friends
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Mockingjay and Banking
Today I went to the bank, deposited my babysitting money/check stuff, and got my copy of Mockingjay. I'm not realy in a reading-marathon-mood so I took a break. I'm also gonna try to fit in a run somewhere between the reading and watching and blogging. Oh my life is SO busy.
I leave soon, so I've stacked up a pile of hangers from my closets and various other knick-knacks from my room...a wooden turtle, a porcelain China cat from Chicago, a paperweight snowglobe type thing...of Chicago. I don't have some strange love for Chicago, haha.
I'm slightly worried about having too much "stuff". I brought like 2 weeks of clothes, a trunk full of shoes, books, hangers, towels and sheets, a duffel bag full of school supplies and knick-knacks (i'll use the duffel bag for camping next week) and then one big suitcase and one teeny suitcase.
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that is all
I leave soon, so I've stacked up a pile of hangers from my closets and various other knick-knacks from my room...a wooden turtle, a porcelain China cat from Chicago, a paperweight snowglobe type thing...of Chicago. I don't have some strange love for Chicago, haha.
I'm slightly worried about having too much "stuff". I brought like 2 weeks of clothes, a trunk full of shoes, books, hangers, towels and sheets, a duffel bag full of school supplies and knick-knacks (i'll use the duffel bag for camping next week) and then one big suitcase and one teeny suitcase.
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that is all
Monday, August 23, 2010
Gamer Girl?
Today was spent babysitting a friend of my mom's, which is good, because I need all the money I can get before I go off to college and use said money for food/textbooks/other necessities.
I played Beatles Rock Band/Guitar Hero with the kid (who is 8 and really awesome). We then went to Walgreens where I bought a cheap-o bouncy ball to play volleyball with at the park. This was a bad idea, because I had forgotten the meaning of the saying: "Like a kid in the candy store." He made a beeline to the candy aisle and I had to make a great effort to get him outside again. Phew.
I then played BioShock 2 after he left, which is really fun, even though I don't really like first person shooters. Makes me think of cosplay ideas for Animazement.
Mockingjay comes out tomorrow so I'm going to get a copy (if possible) then read all day :D
Sadly, no bookstores in my area are holding midnight release parties.
That is all for today, tune in for tomorrow's post!
lololol.
I played Beatles Rock Band/Guitar Hero with the kid (who is 8 and really awesome). We then went to Walgreens where I bought a cheap-o bouncy ball to play volleyball with at the park. This was a bad idea, because I had forgotten the meaning of the saying: "Like a kid in the candy store." He made a beeline to the candy aisle and I had to make a great effort to get him outside again. Phew.
I then played BioShock 2 after he left, which is really fun, even though I don't really like first person shooters. Makes me think of cosplay ideas for Animazement.
Mockingjay comes out tomorrow so I'm going to get a copy (if possible) then read all day :D
Sadly, no bookstores in my area are holding midnight release parties.
That is all for today, tune in for tomorrow's post!
lololol.
Sunday, August 22, 2010
Heads will roll (on the floor).
If you're wondering about the blog title, check http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEDtccZHRFE <--- that out. Haha, yeah yeah yeahs are awesome (apparently the badn is NOT called THE yeah yeah yeahs, so yeah...)
Today I went to get black yarn so my mom can crochet my hufflepuff scarf (I made six this summer so she was nice enough to make one for me :D) and also buy some headphones for college (unfortunately they aren't the super-cool-big-black ones I would have ilked, but they work just fine).
Now, I'm listening to Yeah Yeah Yeahs on YouTube and...well, blogging. I also finished Season 3 of Doctor Who. I loved the 3rd season! It had more...powerful, emotional episodes. And I really loved Martha so much more than Rose. Rose just kinda annoyed me. And now there's Donna. I don't think I'll like her very much. I'm kinda delaying watching the first episode of Season 4. Martha was really good though. She saved the world and all! The whole last-time-lord-dying thing was sad. Poor Doctor. AND JACK IS THE FACE OF BO WHAT!
(Also is it a requirement that Doctor Who's companions wear big ol' hoop earrings? Rose did, Martha did for like one episode, and now Donna is.)
I'm sorry. I'm just ranting now. It's good to have something to replace LOST...no, LOST can't be replaced, ever. It's soooo gooooooddd.
Well, this has turned into a tv-show-rant, my apologies. I'm babysitting again tomorrow and Tuesday, most likely. I'm also finishing up my summer reading (few pages left now). Leaving Friday...getting stuff together and whatnot.
Until tomorrow...
Today I went to get black yarn so my mom can crochet my hufflepuff scarf (I made six this summer so she was nice enough to make one for me :D) and also buy some headphones for college (unfortunately they aren't the super-cool-big-black ones I would have ilked, but they work just fine).
Now, I'm listening to Yeah Yeah Yeahs on YouTube and...well, blogging. I also finished Season 3 of Doctor Who. I loved the 3rd season! It had more...powerful, emotional episodes. And I really loved Martha so much more than Rose. Rose just kinda annoyed me. And now there's Donna. I don't think I'll like her very much. I'm kinda delaying watching the first episode of Season 4. Martha was really good though. She saved the world and all! The whole last-time-lord-dying thing was sad. Poor Doctor. AND JACK IS THE FACE OF BO WHAT!
(Also is it a requirement that Doctor Who's companions wear big ol' hoop earrings? Rose did, Martha did for like one episode, and now Donna is.)
I'm sorry. I'm just ranting now. It's good to have something to replace LOST...no, LOST can't be replaced, ever. It's soooo gooooooddd.
Well, this has turned into a tv-show-rant, my apologies. I'm babysitting again tomorrow and Tuesday, most likely. I'm also finishing up my summer reading (few pages left now). Leaving Friday...getting stuff together and whatnot.
Until tomorrow...
Saturday, August 21, 2010
I'm turning into a bonafide nerd, here
Sally Sparrow: Aren't you on duty, *Detective Inspector Shipton*?
Billy Shipton: Nope. Knocked off before we came down here. Told them I had a family crisis.
Sally Sparrow: Why?
Billy Shipton: Because life is short and you are hot. Drink?
So I'm watching "Blink" (Season 3 Doctor Who) and it's amazing so far but I interrupted to get today's blog post out for you anxious readers because there's so many of you! :D
hahahahah, I'm J.K rowlinng you (get it)?
(I just went downstairs to check on my slice of pizza in the toaster oven only to discover the toast oven was off. Woe is me. Also my brother tends to use way too much of his suave smells-like-manly-man-sweat body wash at NIGHT which leaves me with a bad taste in my mouth. Anyways.)
So today I also watched the Human Nature/Family of Blood episodes and they were fantastic! I tihnk the history themed episodes are really great. Like the girl in the fireplace, and the shakespeare one. Also, to see John Smith was kinda heartbreaking. And to see John/The Doctor LOVE SOMEBODY was really weird
like realllyyy weird
In other news, I'm pretty much packed for college. I've got one big suitcase with all my clothes, one small suitcase for carry-on luggage on holidays that has random stuff in it, a trunk (like harry potter!) filled with shoes, sheets, towels, and books (goblet of fire, will grayson, will grayson, looking for alaska, and extremely loud and incredibly close. so had to limit myself to four. I kinda wanted to bring golden compass, but i'll reserve that for re-reading once I'm home for a month during January break.
As of today, all my friends are at college already, making friends and having fun and going to parties and what-not, and I'm in my room watching Doctor Who (but that's okay because I'll do all that college stuff in one week, 2 hours and 55 minutes (as of 9:05 P.M) or something close to that.
The open curriculum is really amazing and scary. I'm find myself looking at math classes (MATH CLASSES? REALLY?) considering taking them but then remember that i ABHOR math even though my last teacher made me forget that sometimes (just sometimes). I have heard that calculus is easier than pre-calc, but this is coming from kids who are /good/ at math. Sooo we'll see.
I really want to take a French class (I kinda have to), an art class (pre-req to photography), and a history class. My freshman seminar is Friendship. It's about (take a wild guess,) friendship, and we read Greek stuff and English lit and all that. It's an English class. I'm semi-excited
I also have a chapter or so of my summer reading left, and I'm reading Leviathan (Scott Wetserfield). MOCKINGJAY COMES OUT SOON.
So I'm gonna go back to watching Doctor Who, I tend to pause it for too long and then I'm like "oh crap i'm watching doctor who". So yeah, back to that.
SO LONG!
Billy Shipton: Nope. Knocked off before we came down here. Told them I had a family crisis.
Sally Sparrow: Why?
Billy Shipton: Because life is short and you are hot. Drink?
So I'm watching "Blink" (Season 3 Doctor Who) and it's amazing so far but I interrupted to get today's blog post out for you anxious readers because there's so many of you! :D
hahahahah, I'm J.K rowlinng you (get it)?
(I just went downstairs to check on my slice of pizza in the toaster oven only to discover the toast oven was off. Woe is me. Also my brother tends to use way too much of his suave smells-like-manly-man-sweat body wash at NIGHT which leaves me with a bad taste in my mouth. Anyways.)
So today I also watched the Human Nature/Family of Blood episodes and they were fantastic! I tihnk the history themed episodes are really great. Like the girl in the fireplace, and the shakespeare one. Also, to see John Smith was kinda heartbreaking. And to see John/The Doctor LOVE SOMEBODY was really weird
like realllyyy weird
In other news, I'm pretty much packed for college. I've got one big suitcase with all my clothes, one small suitcase for carry-on luggage on holidays that has random stuff in it, a trunk (like harry potter!) filled with shoes, sheets, towels, and books (goblet of fire, will grayson, will grayson, looking for alaska, and extremely loud and incredibly close. so had to limit myself to four. I kinda wanted to bring golden compass, but i'll reserve that for re-reading once I'm home for a month during January break.
As of today, all my friends are at college already, making friends and having fun and going to parties and what-not, and I'm in my room watching Doctor Who (but that's okay because I'll do all that college stuff in one week, 2 hours and 55 minutes (as of 9:05 P.M) or something close to that.
The open curriculum is really amazing and scary. I'm find myself looking at math classes (MATH CLASSES? REALLY?) considering taking them but then remember that i ABHOR math even though my last teacher made me forget that sometimes (just sometimes). I have heard that calculus is easier than pre-calc, but this is coming from kids who are /good/ at math. Sooo we'll see.
I really want to take a French class (I kinda have to), an art class (pre-req to photography), and a history class. My freshman seminar is Friendship. It's about (take a wild guess,) friendship, and we read Greek stuff and English lit and all that. It's an English class. I'm semi-excited
I also have a chapter or so of my summer reading left, and I'm reading Leviathan (Scott Wetserfield). MOCKINGJAY COMES OUT SOON.
So I'm gonna go back to watching Doctor Who, I tend to pause it for too long and then I'm like "oh crap i'm watching doctor who". So yeah, back to that.
SO LONG!
Friday, August 20, 2010
(In which I portray my love of parentheses and tackle controversy once more.)
So RamblingsofaRose and Alyenfrance are doing this little project where you blog everday for a month. Seeing as I'm leaving for college in a week, I'm assuming this will be a "big change" that will be good to "document" for "the future" and all that stuff. So I've decided to do it as well! (Let's hope I don't need to make pictures like Hayley G Hoover (I love following the 5AG BEDAs!)) okay that was parenthetical suicide, no more of that.
I recently gave my email to the Amherst Student (the school newspaper) to maybe be a photographer/writer. They sent as an optional assignment where we could write about a certain topic. Seeing as I have never written a newspaper article (but I did get an editorial published once XD) I decided I'd just do it on my blog! I will be tackling that subject that you MUST have heard about, that people just can't shut up about, that is annoying me to DEATH...the "mosque at ground zero" debate.
When I first heard about these plans my thoughts were mixed. I felt that there really shouldn't be anything near Ground Zero...but then I looked into it and discovered that the building isn't even a mosque, it's a community center with one floor reserved for Muslim prayer. It's meant to cross bridges, to unite people of different faiths as a sort of YMCA. Here's a quote from the Cordoba Initiative website:
"The community center will be a platform to amplify the voices of the overwhelming majority of Muslims whose love for America and commitment to peace gets drowned out by the actions of a few extremists. ....As Muslim New Yorkers and Americans we want to help and be part of rebuilding our neighborhood in lower Manhattan. It is important for all of us to show the world that Americans will not be frightened or deterred by the extremist forces of hatred."
Essentially, The Cordoba Initiative is meant to help improve relations between the Islamic world and the western world, something that I believe really needs to be done.
"This building will serve as an emblem for the rest of the world that Americans ... recognize that the evil acts of a few must never damn the innocent."-Donna O'Connor, whose daughter died on 9/11
My point here is that we must remember the bigger picture of America, the whole "Puritans came here to have religious freedom" thing. I don't know if these people have heard of "Freedom of Religion but it's kinda one of our founding principles.
Anyways that's just my two cents.
I recently gave my email to the Amherst Student (the school newspaper) to maybe be a photographer/writer. They sent as an optional assignment where we could write about a certain topic. Seeing as I have never written a newspaper article (but I did get an editorial published once XD) I decided I'd just do it on my blog! I will be tackling that subject that you MUST have heard about, that people just can't shut up about, that is annoying me to DEATH...the "mosque at ground zero" debate.
When I first heard about these plans my thoughts were mixed. I felt that there really shouldn't be anything near Ground Zero...but then I looked into it and discovered that the building isn't even a mosque, it's a community center with one floor reserved for Muslim prayer. It's meant to cross bridges, to unite people of different faiths as a sort of YMCA. Here's a quote from the Cordoba Initiative website:
"The community center will be a platform to amplify the voices of the overwhelming majority of Muslims whose love for America and commitment to peace gets drowned out by the actions of a few extremists. ....As Muslim New Yorkers and Americans we want to help and be part of rebuilding our neighborhood in lower Manhattan. It is important for all of us to show the world that Americans will not be frightened or deterred by the extremist forces of hatred."
Essentially, The Cordoba Initiative is meant to help improve relations between the Islamic world and the western world, something that I believe really needs to be done.
"This building will serve as an emblem for the rest of the world that Americans ... recognize that the evil acts of a few must never damn the innocent."-Donna O'Connor, whose daughter died on 9/11
My point here is that we must remember the bigger picture of America, the whole "Puritans came here to have religious freedom" thing. I don't know if these people have heard of "Freedom of Religion but it's kinda one of our founding principles.
Anyways that's just my two cents.
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Twilight? Harry Potter?
So I seem to be entering what seems to be a World War III battlefield. Anyways, my viewpoint on this debate is...either, or. I don't think it matters if people like both Twilight and Harry Potter. I've read all four Twilight books *insert groan* and even had a Twilight themed party in the midst of the Twi-mania. Then, it kinda spiraled out of control with the rabid tweensters and the Twi-moms and the cardboard cut-outs and it got mildly disturbing/obsessive. I did enjoy the books as a guilty pleasure, and yes, the writing was kinda bad, (she uses couldn't've...) Bella serves as a horrible example for young girls (okay, so you seriously can't function because your boyfriend leaves for a few months? You fall into deep depression? Unrealistic to say the least), and the whole imprinting thing was more than a little bit creepy. But I enjoyed reading them, all the while waiting for them to get better, and I thought Breaking Dawn was HILARIOUS (which was not the intended effect, I'm sure).
But now it seems like you can only like HP or Twilight (and I'm a huge HP fan, I've spent this summer re-reading the books and even read Sorcerer's Stone in French thanks to my friend, and I went to WWOHP, and I've read the books since I was 9, sneaking around my mom who forbade them.) I think it's kinad ridiculous to compare the two series at all, one is a romance...fantasy-ish thing, the other is an epic that stands alongside The Chronicles of Narnia and maybe even LOTR one day (one day...)
But in the long run, Cedric Diggory > Edward Cullen, always, Robert Pattinson.
And Lupin > Jacob.
But now it seems like you can only like HP or Twilight (and I'm a huge HP fan, I've spent this summer re-reading the books and even read Sorcerer's Stone in French thanks to my friend, and I went to WWOHP, and I've read the books since I was 9, sneaking around my mom who forbade them.) I think it's kinad ridiculous to compare the two series at all, one is a romance...fantasy-ish thing, the other is an epic that stands alongside The Chronicles of Narnia and maybe even LOTR one day (one day...)
But in the long run, Cedric Diggory > Edward Cullen, always, Robert Pattinson.
And Lupin > Jacob.
Monday, August 16, 2010
why i'm annoyed.
So everyone has gotten their roommates and everything, and most are moving in this or next week (this week really), and here I am anguished over the fact that my email was supposed to go out today and it was delayed.
It's really not that big of a deal, really. It's just annoying, and I need to vent, and one of my pet peeves is complaining on facebook (if you notice I hardly ever say "bad day" unless it was a REALLY bad day, just because I don't like to). So yeah, that's the end of my ranting.
It's really not that big of a deal, really. It's just annoying, and I need to vent, and one of my pet peeves is complaining on facebook (if you notice I hardly ever say "bad day" unless it was a REALLY bad day, just because I don't like to). So yeah, that's the end of my ranting.
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