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Yeah, so it's 4:15 a.m. right now, and I have nothing better to do than to sit here and update my journal. So, it's beeon one hell of a night. As you all know, the Sox won the ALCS, after being down 3-0, which was exciting. But honestly, that wasn't the best part of the night. Let me tell you, there's nothing like being at a huge school like UMASS with tons of Sox fans when they win something big. All these other schools want to talk about riots, but there's nothing that compares to UMASS, especially down in Southwest. So, after the victory, I head down to Southwest to check it out with TBJ, and we suddenly turn around, and there's about 600 people behind us, no joke. We do our thing on the way down there, you know, the typical riot stuff, chanting, breaking anything you can find, all that good stuff. We get to Southwest, and there's just tons of people. There had to be no less than 4000 people there. So, there we were, 4000 students, many of which are drunk off their ass, and what else are we going to do but start lighting shit on fire. So, there were a couple of fires, nothing extremely large, people lighting off fireworks, and much more chanting. Then, I guess things must have gotten too out of control for the cops liking. There's tons of undercover cops all over the place, not to mention ones in uniform all around too. All of a sudden, the cops start to open fire on the crowd, shooting paintballs filled with mase, then taking out the tear gas and launching those into the crowds. So, the crowd just turns into a giant stampede. That was fun to get out of. Then, everyone stops running, and I decide maybe its time to leave. As I'm leaving, a cop sees me and yells "Get over here!". So, I go over, and he pulls out a cable tie. He turns around for a second, and of course I'm not going to stand there and get arrested, so I take off like a bat out of hell. All I can say is Thank You Sutphen, all those running drills you made me do really come in handy when you're running from the cops. Meanwhile, I've lost TBJ in the stampede. Oh well, no big deal. So, I head over to the pond, and see him there. Meanwhile, the mob of people have moved over to the pond, and chaos erupts again. Then, I decided to head back to the dorm. When I get back here, our common room is just trashed, seriously trashed. Broken tables, broken beer bottles, just everything in that room was destroyed. I fucking hate Connant. The kid is such a douche. He trashes our common room, writes all over our door, smokes pot in his room, so thats all we smell in the hall. I'm just sick of him. Oh well. Tonight was crazy, but I'm so glad I came here now. You know you picked the right school to go to when they have a police copter circling campus because of the riots. Gotta love UMASS!