Orientation Week

Unnecessarily long post. Free meals the entire week. :3 My engrish is still subpar.

Monday:

Wow. We had two hours of icebreakers today. Two whole hours. Some activities:

-'I Have' (as opposed to 'I Never') with 100 people

-Web of Connections

-Sausage

-Human Scavenger Hunt

-Zoo (I was a cow!)

-Name+Fact Game

-Ultimate Ninja

-Human Knot (two interlacing rings?)

-Barrel Tag

-Possi

Got some ideas for Band Camp. Lots of ice cream:

Did some crazy stuff at night. I touched the most number of hands in my life.

Tuesday:

The Orientation Counselors were playing Hall of the Mountain King played by a guitar so loudly on the fifth floor that I could hear it in the first floor lobby. The lunch's been getting worse each day. I must be getting used to it. Had an interesting discussion with my floor about The Last Lecture.

Kind of a boring day. Went to explore the library before dinner on my own instead of taking the tour. Got a bit lost, but the place is amazing. I could live there.

Found this on the fridge. Reminds me of Ryan Mori.

Experienced an earthquake in my dorm at 1:53 PM. Originated in Virginia. Ehhhhh.....

Wednesday:

Sex skit this morning. What's that? Well, Condomman was there and he threw out condoms into the crowd, among other things. Learned some new sex jokes.

I first met the prospective physics majors. Most of them are pretty cool, and the dean is doc!-like. A mixture of cynicism and humor will keep any undergraduate smiling like an idiot with no way to respond.

At night, I went to the Carnegie Science Museum. There was an iMax 3D ish humongous dome screen that covered 75% of the ceiling. I must say that the Hubble video I saw was the closest I've been to 'sublime' in awhile.

Here's a view of Pittsburgh from the top of the science center. Pretty <3

Thursday

There was a two and a half hour discussion about the importance of academic integrity this morning. I suppose that means they're really serious about it. The thing is, at the meeting, I could feel the pride that the faculty had for the school, which is starting to lead to me having pride for my college.

Convocation was tonight. The speeches were all very inspiring for me, and my pride for the school continued to build after listening to a bit of the

history. Casino night was a bit strange. The five blackjack tables and the one hold em table filled up in five minutes, and people wouldn't leave for half an hour. So I just went back to the dorm and discovered some Serbian Film at a floor meeting. Click link and read plot at your own risk.

Bunnies smokin' fags. There are also real bunnies and squirrels on the path from the dorm to campus center, but I'm too lazy to take my iPod out and snap a photo. Usually it's because I'm listening to Shostakovitch or something.

Friday

House wars today. It's like senior camp, but only for two hours. Issac dyed his hair pink. And his beard. And his eyebrows.

The two hour field day was pretty nuts. Johnny Bae (our RA) got us all lost somehow in the beginning. The Residence on Fifth came in fifth (second last to those Donner fools) making 'Fifth on Fifth! Fifth on Fifth! Fifth on Fifth!'

Some shots. Lights were pretty strong, it seems. PRA played at least 3 times.

I guess I'm writing about Saturday and Sunday in a new post.

O-O-O-OAKLAND!!! O-O-O-OAKLAND!!! O-O-O-OAKLAND!!! O-O-O-OAKLAND!!! O-O-O-OAKLAND!!! O-O-O-OAKLAND!!! O-O-O-OAKLAND!!! O-O-O-OAKLAND!!! O-O-O-OAKLAND!!! O-O-ooo... I'ts always awkward to be that one person that hangs over.