Reflections

Man, I have to say that college is such a crazy experience. It's not really the partying that I am talking about (although that of course is QUITE an experience), rather, the self-realization process that one undergoes. I feel like I've learned a lot about myself since my days in the 203.

For instance, I feel like I've become much more confident in social situations. I used to always have Geoff to talk to when things became boring in conversations, and sometimes I didn't feel the need to meet new people--I could just talk to Geoff instead. At UConn though, it's a necessity to meet new people and it's coming to me a lot easier than I thought it would be. Everyone has those moments during their senior year where they just freeze up and have a 5 second panic attack about the prospect to going off to college on their own, but it really isn't that bad when you get here.

Also, I feel like I was defined in high school as being an athlete, specifically being a track superstar and all state soccer player. In some ways I felt like I had to live up to these expectations at all times, and that didn't really allow me to just be myself except when I was with my true friends. At UConn though it's nothing like that, people don't even know that I did track at all! So, I'm pretty happy about that.

I've definitely changed in other ways too, and I feel like this is for the better. I see so many kids who come to college and they are completely different people--they smoke pot, they drink everyday, they become really bitchy and/or arrogant, and to me that is a damn shame. All I can really say is that I adhere to my morals that I feel are right, and nothings going to make me do things I don't want to do. I think it shows a lack of character to become someone you aren't just to impress others, that shouldn't be how things go.

Well, that's about it for this post, I've been doing a lot of thinking about that sort of thing lately. This was mainly more for me than anything lol.

But I'm pumped for Halloween!!

Instant Dailies

What's up blogspotters, right now I'm just watching the UConn football game on TV vs West Virginia, and I was bored so I decided to put up a post.

Here's another reason why I really like UConn...the Newspapers! Basically we get a paper everyday called the Daily Campus, and it is pretty informative on the doings of UConn Campus. The best part about it though is that they have this section called the "Instant Dailies", which can pretty much be compared to such websites as FML.com or Texts from last night, etc. There's hella prestige if you make the top ten for a day, and usually they are very funny, here are a few funny ones over the last two weeks.

My boyfriend asked me what I wanted to be for Halloween this year. I said single.

Take your time UConn maintenance,the inch of water on my floor can wait.

My roomate just caught two ladybugs in one cup. Two ladybugs, one cup?

To the guy who left the completed crossword puzzle and sudoku in one of the library bathroom stalls, how long were you there for?

To the dude who sleepwalks down the hall: perhaps you should wear some pants before you go to bed.

To the delivery guy on Friday Night: Sorry I didn't tip you. Hope the free beer you funneled at my door made up for it.

Dear roomate: I appreciated waking up to you sitting on your bed staring at me in the middle of the night.

To the two guys that made out at Thirsty Dog just to see my friend and I kiss...we faked it, but I saw your tongues touch.

The rhythmic beating above me is getting extremely annoying...especially because I know it's freshmen playing DDR...

To the kid who wears the Ash Ketchum hat every day, you better check your Pokedex because I think you just caught my heart.

Should I have murdered the girl next to me who said, "What's BB TIX? What did I win?"

To the drunk guy who proposed to me last night...I'm not giving you your ring back.

And Finally, my personal favorite:
To the kid who gave a tree stump speech about the Confederacy coming back from Carriage, I hope you realize you are deep inside Union territory. And that you are insane.

She Got A Donkk Donkk Donkk

Yoooooooooooo dude so much to post!

Well I guess I'll start off with Thursday Night lol. For those of you that don't know the significance of homecoming week (I didn't either till a couple days ago), we basically have court voting that takes place from Monday to Wednesday, and then our highly popular, annual lip sync competition. When you think about it though, it's basically less of a sing off then it is a dance off, and the competitors were the four cultural centers in one category (Asian American, African American, Puerto Rican American, and the Rainbow center-because being gay is apparently a culture now lol) and the other category had all the fraternities.

Conner came up for the weekend and I have to say, it's the [second] best move by him to date. The "group" headed up to Gampel Pavilion and met up with some of Pat's girl friends (friends that are girls lol), one of them was actually really cute lol. Well, we were talking to them and all of a sudden, I look down and I see the most outrageous sight I've ever seen. Now, last year our high school president was gay, which was completely fine because he was hella funny and had swag lmao but what I see is this black girl absolutely breakin it down to She Got A Donkk by Soulja Boy.

Let me edit that, what I thought was a black girl lol was actually our runner up for Homecoming King, an outrageously gay black guy that was dancing hella girly lol and he was pullin out some crazy moves. Gampel would make such a great club because the bass that they had was literally shaking the whole Pavilion, you could literally feel it vibrating through your chest. We were cracking up watching this guy dance, he was literally humping the ground at some points lmao it was so freaken weird. Anyways, the competition got under way and it was amazing, the Asians held it down with an amazing dance routine lol they were like fuckin kabba modern from Americas Best Dance Crew. Also, the blacks represented, and the gays routine was just freaken weird but they could dance for sure. After that I crammed for a big bio exam that I actually did well on! On to friday...

Friday came around and we decided to hit up First Night, the Uconn's men and women's basketball's first night practice. It was off the wall. We went with essentially the same people that went to lip sync, and were mad pumped to meet the basketball team for the first time. Gampel was packed, and after waiting for a while the whole stadium went black.
Then they had a sick light show and started playing Thriller as loud as possible, listen to the beggining it was epic. As soon as it came on everyone stood up and I got the chills-it was amazing. The announcer then announced the players, they would get a huge applause lol and had their own theme music, so a lot of them started breakin it down. The basketball teams can dance so well its insane! Also, it is mad funny seeing 7 footers breakin it down hahaha

Friday night was pretty baller too but it was the typical stuff, and as for saturday...all im gonna say is hell yeah lol

I am sooo ready for the weekend. Yesterday was my Calculus exam, all I have to say about that really is fuck my life. However, now the rest of my week is a breeze, my Calc. class on friday is cancelled, as is my Bio exam, so all I really have to do is go to Chemistry at 10-10:50, woot!!

It seems like on days when I have exams, a ridiculous amount of people suddenly start getting into contact with me again. "Hey, lets get lunch!" "Hey, we should totally go to south and eat today!" "Hi! Can I call you in ten?" etc. I mean, seriously it's nice that this happens, but gimme some time to cram why don't you! My one weakness is I have a hard time saying no lol so it puts me in a tough spot, I obviously have to study that's a no brainer, but I feel terrible doing it.

While I was on the phone with one of my many cousins lol, I hear a knock on the door. Pat and I look at each other in confusion, because literally no one comes up to Russell with the rug situation we have to visit. lol so Pat opens the door and I'll be damned if it isn't some creeper 40 year old guy.
Creeper:"Wanna buy a t-shirt?"
*Me and Pat look at each other*
Me:"Let's see them."
*Creeper pulls out a t-shirt entitled "UConn--We sink 'em, you drink 'em" with a picture of a rack of solo cups on them, at which Pat and I burst out laughing about. Me:"Ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh nah we're good lol."

So that was weird lol. Also, recently went to see the Hangover at the SU theatre!! It was a lot funnier this time than last time, probably because the first time you're just like...HUH? WTF? at some of the parts and this time you're expecting it lol. After seeing the Hangover we headed to the gym, to lift some heavy weight son. Now, it was like 11:30 before we decided that it would be a good idea to go swimming. They have towels that they hand out in exchange for one's id, so we went over and grabbed a towel. Working there was some annoying girl who was trying to start a conversation, but Pat and I wanted none of that so we left. We change, and take a shower (with bathing suits on, thusly no homo) because everyone has to shower before going in the pool and we head to the door.

The door doesn't open.

Pat and I are just like WTF lol and start making fun of the girl for the next twenty minutes. "Oh btw, thanks for telling me that the pool was closed so as not to waste our time, since we so obviously were going swimming due to the goggles we were carrying, thanks a million!" lmao so yea goin home tomorrow and pumped

Success

My heart pounds as I stare at my bright, Sony Vaio laptop screen in the library. Laura is talking to me--I pay her absolutely no attention, all I'm getting from her is akin to what Charlie Brown hears from his teachers.

A bead of sweat drops down my forehead...I've never been more nervous in my entire life, I'm even more nervous than before a track race at States.

One thing is for sure though--my adrenaline is pumping, and as every Brown knows, once the adrenaline flows, failure is not an option.

What could possibly be making me so focused? SEASON TICKETS FOR UCONN BASKETBALL WERE ON THE LINE.

Basically, UConn can only sell so many season tickets, and due to the large number of prospective buyers, they have to do a lottery system where your name gets put in once if one is a freshmen, twice if a sophomore, three times if a junior, and four times if a senior. Now, out of the winners, a decent amount of people forget, or just don't pick up their tickets for whatever reason. These tickets are resold on October 5th at 10:00 pm. So literally a thousand people across campus are vying for those last tickets, could I, the unlucky guy that I am, pick up the tickets!?!?

Hellz Yeah lol, GOT EMMMMM YA BOI GOT HIS MOTHA EFFIN TICKETS ON THE REAL

Such an epic win, can't even explain it haha. After I got them, we went upstairs (myself, laura, and lyly) and took a seat at this table next to these two upperclassmen trying to get tickets. What jokes, they didnt land them!! lol so I cocked the computer screen facing them (not obviously) with my order confirmation email lol because let's face it, with such a big victory, a little rubbin' it in has to come with the territory.

Later that same night, Jimmy and I head out for a little fire chat at around 12. As we pass the trail by Jorgensen, we run into four kids walking the same way. One of the guy grabs Jimmy and I by the neck, clearly inebriated, and starts walkin with us like we've been friends for years. Apparently, it's the guys 21st birthday and he's extremely gone. We make friends with him though and find out who he is, apparently he's some big shot (may or may not be true) that is a senior, and was the N in UCONN at the football games lol. His friends were all sober lol so they were lookin out for him. He must have asked us if we were drinking a million times because we had gatorade bottles, but we kindly reminded him that it was a monday night lol. Anyways, we walked them back to South campus (more by necessity than anything else--he still had his arms around our necks) and he offered us a beer. Not wanting to get caught, we turned it down lol. The guy was crazy, but it definitely was something different haha, after that we were right by West so we hit up McGrath and talked in the Gazebo till about 2 a.m. before we headed home. Good Night lol

Fairy Alert

I'll leave off basically on my last post.

So, I head over to the Female Orgasm lecture, and the theatre was packed!!!!! Thankfully, Jimmy had saved my seat, which btw I very much appreciate since like 40 people asked him to sit there, and I popped a squat. Jimmy introduces me to this kid Eric, who was sitting to his left, we shake hands and exchange the usuals. My first impression of Eric: definitely an experianced partyer. This kid looked like your typical frat kid, and he was a junior so he definitely had gone to Carriage his fair share of times. We start talking and laughing and I notice he has a very loud, to the point of being obnoxious, laugh.
As I settle in my seat while Eric Bouchard, Lauren Albert's bf, is giving us some information on some Metanoia happening at UConn, out of the corner of my eye I see this guy with a notebook sitting in front of us.
Really? You're taking notes at a Female Orgasm lecture? This guy needs some serious help lol haha. I notice he's written something already so I go in for a closer look. Word for word (I wrote it in my phone) the notebook says:
Dear God, Please silence these two guys behind me.
I've lost faith in humanity. "
Wowww he was talking about the guy Eric and his black friend who were cracking up at like every joke obnoxiously. No class. As I go in for a closer look, my gaydar goes off and now I'm confused, why is he even here? Everyone eventually notices, especially when he started making tallymarks next to the faith in humanity part everytime Eric and his buddy laughed at a joke. Naturally, that pissed Eric off so when we broke up into two groups Eric was like "Which side you goin on buddy?"

Not exactly the high road I would have chosen, but whatever. That guy was a grade A douchebag...
The show itself was actually very funny, definitely relieved some stress that I had studying for Chemistry which was good.
As for yesterday, I studied all day until I took my exam, then I hit up the 203! The alumni game got cancelled though =/ so basically the trip wasn't worth it, plus I took too long catching up with Geoff and the fam so I didn't get a chance to see the people I was really looking forward to seeing...
And it's my dad's birthday lol, so I got him Samurai Jack Season 4! lmao he loves that show