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So I never actually went to a homecoming game while I was in high school, mostly because that wasn't my sort of scene in my more antisocial days. We went to the game last night because my brother was chosen as freshman homecoming attendant, to my eternal awe and admiration. The happy creature you see above is our mascot, the wolf, who lights up his eyes and blows smoke out the nose when the Wolves make a good play. (I think he looks slightly like Stoner Wolf, but who cares.) All this has inspired me to, perhaps, make a run for homecoming queen next year. Stay tuned...
Even though I missed the majority of the free stuff at the Involvement Fair, I still managed to bag some swag today.
From left to right: Tide detergent sample, ID holder, shampoo samples, cotton boxers. Everything but the shampoo came from the Cotton Dirty Laundry tour camped out on the South Oval. They were packing up when my friend and I walked by, and a girl threw us each a pair of boxers. I'm not sure what the point of the whole setup was, but hey, I got free boxers and detergent. Seems like a pretty good day to me. I now have to study for my biochem quiz tomorrow, but I will try to update again later this week. Cheers!
So I went to Late Night at the RPAC last night, where there was lots of free food and iced coffee, free dance lessons inside, a wellness fair, bingo, and lots of other activities. A few suggestions for improvement:
1. Buckeye necklace-making is extremely difficult without the proper implements or sufficient materials. Would suggest adding more of both.
2. Would suggest NOT rigging the spelling bee so that one team gets the word "dessert" and the other gets the word "solenoid" in the same round. (Guess which one I got?) Not that I'm bitter or anything, it was really a lot of fun. And I got a free glass and a coupon for a free large Domino's pizza, which I will probably not use, but would be happy to lavish upon someone who is nice to me. :)
If you've read UWeekly's tips for making the most of college, my initial advice would be to forget what they said. But everyone is entitled to their opinion; I just happen to think theirs is needlessly cynical and choose other ways to enjoy my time here.
1. Smile! It makes you a lot more approachable. Just don't smile and stare at the same time, especially at the RPAC where everyone is likely to be sweaty and scantily clad. It's just a bad combination. I really hope I never meet any more King Leers there, King Leer being the middle-aged, balding man whom I saw working out over the summer. He had the extremely unfortunate habit of staring at me on the treadmill and grinning very very creepily.
2. Talk the people next to you in lecture. You never know when you will find a good friend or study buddy, or at least someone to crack jokes at the professor's expense with.
3. Travel with people, if possible. There's nothing like living and moving together to bond. In my Geology 121 class today I ran into two alumni from the London Honors 2005 trip, and heard that two of our group members who started dating after coming home from England are still together. Now if that isn't the sweetest thing ever, I don't know what is.
4. If you are doing any sort of recruitment for an organization, you will need the following two items at your table: puppies and pretty girls. Puppies to attract the girls, and pretty girls to attract the guys.
5. Don't wear shoes like this to class. They are hot, but not very sensible, as I discovered this morning.
Encounter #1 - I was walking back to my apartment from the Involvement Fair on Monday and passed a guy on the street. He stopped in his tracks and started following me. I had just gone a few steps when he asked, "I'm sorry, but can I ask you a silly question?" I guess I never really learned the "Don't talk to strangers" rule as a kid because I said, "Sure!"
"Where did you get your shirt?"
I told him about the wonders of Threadless and he told me he had seen another girl wearing the same shirt and thought it a hoot.
Follow-Up: WOW Coordinator Ryan McCarthy saw my complete works of Shakespeare and told me about a shirt he has that says, "What did Antimony say? I come to barium cesium, not to praseodymium." Chemistry AND Shakespeare...the height of nerdiness.
Encounter #2 - I was taking my friend, a new transfer student, to SpaH (Space on High, in the old Long's) and SBX to take care of back-to-school business. As we were crossing College Avenue, a passing girl told me, "Hey, nice bag!" I looked up and said, "Thanks!" Then I noticed she was carrying the same bag.
What are the odds of that? Two completely separate lives momentarily intertwined in the Victoria's Secret spirit and love of all things pink and girly. That's OSU for you.
Encounter #3 (pending) - Tomorrow night Chi Alpha is having its aptly named worship service, Encounter, at 8:30 pm after the Scarlet & Gray pep rally. We are meeting in Hagerty 180 and I am bringing homemade buckeyes. Yarmy.
This kind of outdoors I can take. I just spent the past two nights at Kings Ranch, near Batesville, IN on a leadership retreat with Chi Alpha Christian Fellowship. It was pretty intense, for personal reasons, but also a lot of fun and I think we bonded a lot as a team. I mean, you have to, when you wake up at 6:00 am to go fishing for four hours. (I copped out and took on the role of mother hen to twenty people, scrambling up an insane amount of eggs and later frying an insane amount of bass and bluegill.) But let me give you an idea of what we have planned for Welcome Week...
9/15 (2:00 pm) - "Learn the Basics of American Football" in Jones Tower
9/16 - 9/19 Contact tables around campus to help people navigate campus and get settled in
9/17 (12:00-4:00 pm) - Involvement Fair
9/17 (evening) - Ice cream social
9/18 (evening) - Capture the Flag on the Oval, pizza
9/20 (8:30 pm, 180 Hagerty Hall) - Encounter worship service after Scarlet Fever
And of course we want to hang out and get to know people throughout the week. Let's be friends!!
I think the global competence level dropped today because I feel like everything I accomplished in four hours probably could have been finished in two if the world were not conspiring to drive me mildly insane. The only task on my to-do list that went off without a hitch was my workout this morning and retrieving my misplaced keys from the SOURCE.
1. Printing Chimes scrapbook at FedEx/Kinko's: The paper jammed in the printer and failed to print the 8 pages it had charged me for. I had to start over and charge another $15.84 to my credit card, but at least they credited the spoiled pages and I only had to pay for 4 extra minutes of computer time.
2. Picking up keys from the rent office: I don't know if this is a universal phenomenon during high-rent season, but the customer service at Buckeye Real Estate really leaves a little to be desired. The girl took about ten minutes to find the file for our apartment, and then I found out that Roxanne had already picked up all our keys. (Which is nobody's fault, just lack of communication, but a little irksome nonetheless.)
3. After hiking down to see the apartment and make sure my bed would fit in my bedroom, I was on my way to catch the #2 bus when I realized I had left my scrapbook pages in Enarson where I had been stuffing convocation bags. (Speaking of which, any incoming freshmen reading this must use and appreciate EVERY SINGLE THING in those bags or else I will be very unhappy.) I booked it back to work, realized the room was locked, and proceeded to dash up and down three flights of stairs for about twenty minutes before someone found a key to let me in to get my stuff. Of course, all this could have been avoided if I weren't so darn scatterbrained, but it still should not have taken so long to find a key for the room. In my humble opinion.
My friend got back from a two-month trip to China and Taiwan last night, and asked if I had any free time to catch up. I thought about it carefully, blinked in surprise at her, and said, "Honestly, no. None at all. For the next two weeks or so." But that is kind of the way I like things. Now if only I could be slightly less incompetent...
[SHAMELESS PLUG] For any high schoolers who might be reading this blog and considering whether to apply to Ohio State...please do. Yesterday I and four other students spent five hours packing up 13,000+ freshman applications bound for high schools across Ohio. (I suffered multiple nasty papercuts under my left ring fingernail in the process.) And I'm doing it again tomorrow. Please. Please. Please. Apply to Ohio State so our work is not in vain. [/SHAMELESS PLUG]
So I'm officially moving into the apartment September 18, the day before school starts. Which officially kind of sucks because that's way more stress than I want to deal with the day before class. But c'est la vie.
For dorm-dwellers moving in on the 16th, there will be a lot of (hopefully) cheerful people in (probably) red shirts pushing large red carts around: OWLs (Orientation Welcome Leaders). I signed up to be one last year, mostly to get the free T-shirt and privilege of moving in early. I paid for it with an unholy amount of O-H I-Oing and mildly irritating icebreakers, which probably would have been less annoying if I had been a new freshman. But overall I think the OWL program is pretty good, despite the obnoxious mixers they concoct that involve extremely loud SexyBack and/or Ridin' Dirty blaring out of Knowlton Hall. You get to know your floormates from the training program itself and from hauling all their junk up to their rooms on move-in day. You get exercise from unloading cars and running carts up and down the elevators (or stairs, if you live in Neilwood Gables!) You get all the privileges of early move-in, including first pick of bunk and desk. And you get a free T-shirt.
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