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theladyroseMy cousin Venus is getting married next year! I'm really happy for her; she and her long-term boyfriend are such a good match for each other. It seems that at this rate one of my cousins is getting married each year; as there are at least 24 unwed cousins left, there will probably be a few more weddings that I'll be attending in the future :P
The Good:
Jon Burlingame teaches at USC. (Is there any other?) I think I'd keel over and die happy if I could ever take a film music appreciation class from that guy. Not only that, but he has the best and most consistent course reviews I've ever read for any professor! I seriously need to find some way to stalk-er, meet-this man and become his research lackey if possible.
Background for the non film score geeks: This is the man who brought us the Film Score Monthly release of the Man from UNCLE 6 CD soundtrack set. There's a great interview with HMSS zine's Bill Koenig here that goes into more depth about the musical development of the series and the process of producing the MfU soundtracks.
Seriously, that discovery just made my day/night.
All the professors I've talked to have been really approachable and friendly. They're seriously interested in what goes on in their students' lives, and I'm sure they're great teachers as well. For some reason I have a much easier time sustaining a conversation with them than with my peers.
My roommate, Catherine, and I are getting along pretty well. We seem to generally have similar enough habits, except that I tend to stay up later at night which could potentially be a problem. I wouldn't say that I'm especially close with her at the moment but she's a really nice and down-to-earth person and so far a great person to live with. I need to be around someone sensible so that I don't get "AAH!!!" or very slow witted on everyone.
Move-in went pretty well-we found this gigantic orange storage bin to bring up all of my stuff which was amazingly helpful. I finally have everything for my room in place although I'm still waiting for some textbooks to arrive from Amazon. Our room is on the 6th floor partially overlooking the street and a building under construction, but the noise level is quite reasonable and with two fans on full time it's never been too hot in our room. The building is pretty nice and is fortuitously located between the library and the caféteria.
The library next door is just awesome in general. I've scouted out some really good places to study, and the 24 hour computer labs are pretty nice and have all sorts of nifty useful programs that I don't have on my laptop. Rumor is that there's a gigantic film and TV library with rooms to view one's selections; I want to find it later.
There are a lot of great volunteering opportunities and student organizations that I want to do. So far I've signed up for an inner-city elementary school tutoring program, peer mentoring, work at the TV station (*crosses fingers in hopes of getting a job there*), the Asian Pacific American issues discussion group/organization and maybe a few other things that I still need to check out. Hopefully they'll let me copy edit a little at the newspaper, too. I'm thinking about showing up to the first co-ed choir rehearsal on Tuesday because there aren't any auditions.
My new laptop is quite lovely and fast and has tons of memory because I have hardly anything on it. The one thing that bugs me about it is that I can't figure out how to make DVD screencaptures; does anyone have any program recommendations?
The Bad:
Though I've met quite a few people in the past few days I have a lot of trouble trying to remember everyone's names or even where I first met them. All of the people except for one I talked to previous to welcome week-I haven't been able to find them anywhere except during the most fleeting of circumstances.
It's frustrating trying to coordinate schedules and such as there are so many people doing so many different things.
I'm still really nervous walking off campus by myself because I can never find anyone to go with me when I want to go during the day or in the evening. I'm tempted to walk over to get a few groceries by myself, but it's kind of far.
To do laundry you have to use a special card that requires a credit or debit card to put on money. So much for saving several months' worth of quarters.
I have honestly wondered if the students at my old high school were on the whole much more intelligent (dare I say intellectual?) and overall nice than in college. It's funny-I never have had any problems making friends at camp or at summer college programs (which has always surprised me considering that I'm more introverted), but "real" college it's more difficult than I had anticipated. For one thing, the students I've met are a lot more, well, normal teenager/young adult types; summer college programs tend to have more of a mix of normal high school students and quirky, tremendously kind nerds who enjoy learning. I swear I'm seeing so many more of the typical high school stereotypes in college than I've ever seen before. I never really realized how sheltered I was at my old school; people there seemed so much more accepting if you were a little more out of the box. I've forgotten that virtually no one my age reviews 60's film soundtracks or knows about the Avengers or even Hustle. That's one unfortunate side effect of having a time machine accident when I was born.
I still have great difficulty realizing that I'm actually a student here. Walking around campus, I still feel like a visitor even though I have a really good idea of where all the important buildings are.
The Ugly:
The Bookstore is a corporate whore; it won't even give a basic discount on any items to students. Unfortunately, it is a corporate whore that's partially funding my scholarship, so I know I shouldn't be ragging on it too much.
There was the awkward security guard moment at the Getty museum. I almost missed the field trip bus going back to campus as I underestimated how many stairs there are. They may not very steep, but they're numerous.
My roommate walked into the bathroom yesterday to brush her teeth and nearly ran into a guy and a girl wearing only towels coming out of the shower. This was the women's bathroom; the guys have their own on the other side of the floor. Talk about awkward. The floorcest is already taking place, and some of the girls in the rooms across and next to ours seem to have guys there late at night. Or maybe I'm just an uptight prude? I don't mean to diss my floormates-there are some incredibly nice girls near me, too. I haven't really met any of the guys yet; they're usually too busy doing other things.
The Asian Sorority Council recruiters scare the bejeezus out of me. I've used CIA worthy evasion tactics that have succeeded in all but two cases so far. As for those who managed to block me from exiting-I gave them my old non-working cell phone number just because they wouldn't accept "no" for an answer. They won't believe me when I tell them I'd make a horribe sorority sister; I'm a teetotalling asexual for goodness sakes. The only possible use I'd be is to raise the house GPA, assuming that my brain doesn't get slaughtered by my five classes.
My first class starts tomorrow; here's to hoping the academic year goes well for me and my other friends in school :)
Jon Burlingame teaches at USC. (Is there any other?) I think I'd keel over and die happy if I could ever take a film music appreciation class from that guy. Not only that, but he has the best and most consistent course reviews I've ever read for any professor! I seriously need to find some way to stalk-er, meet-this man and become his research lackey if possible.
Background for the non film score geeks: This is the man who brought us the Film Score Monthly release of the Man from UNCLE 6 CD soundtrack set. There's a great interview with HMSS zine's Bill Koenig here that goes into more depth about the musical development of the series and the process of producing the MfU soundtracks.
Seriously, that discovery just made my day/night.
All the professors I've talked to have been really approachable and friendly. They're seriously interested in what goes on in their students' lives, and I'm sure they're great teachers as well. For some reason I have a much easier time sustaining a conversation with them than with my peers.
My roommate, Catherine, and I are getting along pretty well. We seem to generally have similar enough habits, except that I tend to stay up later at night which could potentially be a problem. I wouldn't say that I'm especially close with her at the moment but she's a really nice and down-to-earth person and so far a great person to live with. I need to be around someone sensible so that I don't get "AAH!!!" or very slow witted on everyone.
Move-in went pretty well-we found this gigantic orange storage bin to bring up all of my stuff which was amazingly helpful. I finally have everything for my room in place although I'm still waiting for some textbooks to arrive from Amazon. Our room is on the 6th floor partially overlooking the street and a building under construction, but the noise level is quite reasonable and with two fans on full time it's never been too hot in our room. The building is pretty nice and is fortuitously located between the library and the caféteria.
The library next door is just awesome in general. I've scouted out some really good places to study, and the 24 hour computer labs are pretty nice and have all sorts of nifty useful programs that I don't have on my laptop. Rumor is that there's a gigantic film and TV library with rooms to view one's selections; I want to find it later.
There are a lot of great volunteering opportunities and student organizations that I want to do. So far I've signed up for an inner-city elementary school tutoring program, peer mentoring, work at the TV station (*crosses fingers in hopes of getting a job there*), the Asian Pacific American issues discussion group/organization and maybe a few other things that I still need to check out. Hopefully they'll let me copy edit a little at the newspaper, too. I'm thinking about showing up to the first co-ed choir rehearsal on Tuesday because there aren't any auditions.
My new laptop is quite lovely and fast and has tons of memory because I have hardly anything on it. The one thing that bugs me about it is that I can't figure out how to make DVD screencaptures; does anyone have any program recommendations?
Though I've met quite a few people in the past few days I have a lot of trouble trying to remember everyone's names or even where I first met them. All of the people except for one I talked to previous to welcome week-I haven't been able to find them anywhere except during the most fleeting of circumstances.
It's frustrating trying to coordinate schedules and such as there are so many people doing so many different things.
I'm still really nervous walking off campus by myself because I can never find anyone to go with me when I want to go during the day or in the evening. I'm tempted to walk over to get a few groceries by myself, but it's kind of far.
To do laundry you have to use a special card that requires a credit or debit card to put on money. So much for saving several months' worth of quarters.
I have honestly wondered if the students at my old high school were on the whole much more intelligent (dare I say intellectual?) and overall nice than in college. It's funny-I never have had any problems making friends at camp or at summer college programs (which has always surprised me considering that I'm more introverted), but "real" college it's more difficult than I had anticipated. For one thing, the students I've met are a lot more, well, normal teenager/young adult types; summer college programs tend to have more of a mix of normal high school students and quirky, tremendously kind nerds who enjoy learning. I swear I'm seeing so many more of the typical high school stereotypes in college than I've ever seen before. I never really realized how sheltered I was at my old school; people there seemed so much more accepting if you were a little more out of the box. I've forgotten that virtually no one my age reviews 60's film soundtracks or knows about the Avengers or even Hustle. That's one unfortunate side effect of having a time machine accident when I was born.
I still have great difficulty realizing that I'm actually a student here. Walking around campus, I still feel like a visitor even though I have a really good idea of where all the important buildings are.
The Bookstore is a corporate whore; it won't even give a basic discount on any items to students. Unfortunately, it is a corporate whore that's partially funding my scholarship, so I know I shouldn't be ragging on it too much.
There was the awkward security guard moment at the Getty museum. I almost missed the field trip bus going back to campus as I underestimated how many stairs there are. They may not very steep, but they're numerous.
My roommate walked into the bathroom yesterday to brush her teeth and nearly ran into a guy and a girl wearing only towels coming out of the shower. This was the women's bathroom; the guys have their own on the other side of the floor. Talk about awkward. The floorcest is already taking place, and some of the girls in the rooms across and next to ours seem to have guys there late at night. Or maybe I'm just an uptight prude? I don't mean to diss my floormates-there are some incredibly nice girls near me, too. I haven't really met any of the guys yet; they're usually too busy doing other things.
The Asian Sorority Council recruiters scare the bejeezus out of me. I've used CIA worthy evasion tactics that have succeeded in all but two cases so far. As for those who managed to block me from exiting-I gave them my old non-working cell phone number just because they wouldn't accept "no" for an answer. They won't believe me when I tell them I'd make a horribe sorority sister; I'm a teetotalling asexual for goodness sakes. The only possible use I'd be is to raise the house GPA, assuming that my brain doesn't get slaughtered by my five classes.
My first class starts tomorrow; here's to hoping the academic year goes well for me and my other friends in school :)
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Date: 2006-08-21 11:01 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-08-22 07:13 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-08-21 12:54 pm (UTC)Here's a possibility: tell him you know me. I'm Cindy and I contributed to the liner notes on the last MFU soundtrack CD.
Jon's a big MFU fan and if you start boning up on the series, he'll take a shine to you, guaranteed.
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Date: 2006-08-22 07:02 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-08-22 12:42 pm (UTC)I also write the St. Crispin Day Society universe available here:
http://file40.net/file40g/crispins/cris_page.html
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Date: 2006-08-27 07:10 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-08-22 12:43 pm (UTC)http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/M/htmlM/manfromun/manfromun.htm
Congrats on beginning your college career. Welcome to academia.
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Date: 2006-08-21 03:16 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-08-22 06:57 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-08-21 05:11 pm (UTC)the bad/ugly sound not so bad/ not so ugly; or atleast fix-able, dealable or ignorable... the un-intelligent / sluttywhore-mates thing i guess is unavoidable... we've been in an intellectual bubble for awhile. which surprises me - the people at our high school aren't that intelligent... but i guess in comparison? who knows. that sounded really snobby.
anyways the point is - i hope college is going well! ooh- send me a fb message with your address and i'll write you letters :]
♥ x21354 from me :)
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Date: 2006-08-22 07:16 am (UTC)I sent you my address; I've got yours so we can exchange letters :D
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Date: 2006-08-21 06:22 pm (UTC)I've been in cood dorms for almost all of my summer programs, so I don't bat an eye if I see menfolk wearing towels prancing around my floor, but you've got to thank God that at least your roommate isn't getting it on with one of them *while you're trying to study*. Because, seriously, such a pain in the ass.
OMG SORORITYGIRL!ANDREA. OMG. KILL ME NOW. 'Twould be kinder. Girl, you would *beast* these chicks with your brain, so you just keep on avoidin' them : )
I really, really hope you make a few good friends (because, you know, quality over quanitity and whatnot) but I'm betting that you'll meet some kids in your classes that will be fun, and if and when this happens I suggest a criterea of :
a) male
b) jewish
c) cleversweet. Together. At the same time
and, you know, if all else fails,
TRANSFER TO WHEREVER THE HELL I HAPPEN TO BE. Posthaste. Because we'll party it up crazy.
I think that you, above all other people, will be able to snag this Burlingame--seriously, write him an e-mail or something, whatever, if he's teaching at USC I'm sure it will *make his day* to hear that somebody like you exists. At his own school, no less.
what kind of computer did you get? My Dad told me yesterday that my little sister's getting my current computer, and that I'll be getting a new one O_o. My aim screenname is derhunda66, what's yours? also, if you can't aim me in time, e-mail your phone number.
KICK ASS IN CLASSES, ANDREA O' THE INTELLECTUAL WIND.
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Date: 2006-08-22 07:29 am (UTC)I've always been in co-ed dorms as well, but usually I don't see people hooking up *this* quickly RIGHT OUTSIDE MY DOOR. It makes viewing through the peephole necessary before leaving my room to avoid additional awkwardness. But yes, my roommate is cool and agrees with me on the no sexiling thing. And luckily the library next door is open 24 hours anyway.
You are way too kind. Not that I have any objections, of course :) These are Asian sorority girls we're talking about after all-they're probably more intelligent than the average sorority girl. That's not saying much, though.
Where are you thinking of possibly transfering? Though it's highly unlikely that I would transfer, it is an option that I'm keeping open because you never know.
There's a really nice cute Jewish guy on the 4th floor, but every time I try to meet him *something* gets in the way. I'm tempted to start looking around the engineering school :P
I'm going to e-mail Burlingame soon after I do a little background listening so that I have a vague idea of what I'm talking to. It's my way of justifying buying more soundtracks.
I have a new cell phone number as my old phone seems to have slipped into the digital equivalent of a coma, and I got kicked off my uncle's cell phone plan. I can give it to you on iChat now that we sort of know how to work it :)
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Date: 2006-08-26 07:15 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-08-27 07:08 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-08-27 10:17 am (UTC)