I was going to write a longish post about my last day of summer break (classes start tomorrow) but I also want to get a decent night's sleep one last time... So, instead, I'll just talk about my day.
The main event today, I guess, was the student activities fair. There are several hundred officially recognized student organizations, and they all had booths in one of the gyms. Most organizations are loosely formed, and are usually centered around mailing lists. So, basically, all the booths had sheets of paper so that people who were interested could write down their name and email address. I basically went around and signed up for just about every organization that sounded remotely interesting, or were giving out free stuff. I can't even remember half the orgs I signed up for, but I'm getting a flood of "welcome to the xyz mailing list" messages... I'm guessing I'll actually join Doc Films (student run film theater), Fire Escape Films (they make movies), and the Outdoor Adventure Club.
The only other real event for the day was the first real House meeting with most people present. It was the first time I got to see everybody living in Stony, which was kind of nice. Afterwards, everybody who was interested in joining the house council stuck around... and being the crazy guy that I am, volunteered to become the Dining Rep. Apparently I'm supposed to go to meetings every now and then to talk about various issues relating to the dining halls, and lobby to make things happen. From what people have told me, my first priority is to try and get more tables or a bigger table for Stony in the dining hall (each house gets designated tables, but we just have 2 4-person round tables).
BTW, my photoblog section is up to date, so you might want to check that out if you haven't in the last few days...
Posted Tue, November 25, 2003 13:05 by Hypro Pump
last day of freedom and the new day of the rest of your life
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