Blu: A Starting Post Made So At Least Something of Mine is Posted by the Time Thursday Comes and I Don't Let This Blog Down

9.24.15

I'm glad we've decided on free-form blog posts so that I can make unreasonably long title names and bring inconvenience to everyone.

On the other hand, I really like order and rules so I'm just going to wait now and see how other people do their introductions.

10.1.15

Everyone is doing their introduction differently, so that's simultaneously great and unfortunate for me.

I'm at a university in the Bay Area, possibly guaranteeing that I stay here for the REST OF MY LIFE. But I guess the thirty minute drive in between is nice for a person who can be forgetful/get into accidents.

I'm sitting in my dorm now at 6:43 AM, not voluntarily (as if I'm a morning person).

We are currently in the latter half of week 2

I'm drowning in reading and writing assignments

and audition/tryout results are coming out.

I, myself, am not anticipating any results. Most of the music/sports/dance groups go with the similar strategy of saying "come tryout, no experience necessary!" and "shower singing counts!" meaning experience is absolutely necessary (my singing will just drag your acapella group down, but this recruiting strategy is effectively in-your-face and persistent and I'm trying to bike through without falling over).

How do you know the results of an audition/tryout?

People from the group personally come to your room and tell you face-to-face.

AT 6 AM BANGING AND YELLING ON YOUR DOOR

Sound waves can travel.

Now, I'm wide awake and my heart is beating so rapidly despite staying up to 1 writing a 4-5 page rough draft essay the previous night (morning?).

I should go congratulate that person.

In other news, college is actually fun, but I've failed to recall specific events now. Because I'm still feeling bits of the adrenaline.

There's an unofficial approximate word count on these that is ~500 words. So I'll be back to elaborate on something else.

I choose to talk about dorms.

Here two months before school even starts, you rank the type of dorm you want to get into. This is weird because some dorms accompany academic programs and some dorms don't but you still have to write an essay to apply and some dorms have slight reputations that you have to figure out.

I'm in a dorm that is pretty much known for its quiet people. Unfortunately we are located far far away from the center (I'd argue we are the farthest dorm with freshman). What's better is that we are also next to a gym (with access to a great rock climbing wall) and every time I bike back "home" up that slight, but pronounced, road there are always people working out and in the pool taking advantage of their resources. I always feel obligated to go because $60k a year, but there's too much reading on Hadrian and writing argumentative essays to be done. I need to reorganize my life.

That went off on a tangent and I'm very certain that my grammar is flying around haphazardly (please if you can correct it do!) 

The morals are: writing is hard, the first few weeks are for adjustment, and I really need more structure.

I'm pretty sure there's gaps. Comment questions? I don't know how this works.