Posted on Sept. 13th, 2007
Last time I rode on a plane, I was heading to New York, just 2 days after Julian dumped me. On Tuesday, I flew to Boston the day before I’d get a glimpse of my new life to come. Both times were filled with glum feelings on a variety of similar and different subjects. The trip started grand from the beginning with the hotel we were staying with. When my mom asked if I could have stayed anywhere, I said I had always wanted to stay at the Four Seasons hotel just to see what it was like once in my life. I only intended to stay in the cheapest of rooms, costing about +$400. I had said after we could reserve one to forget about it completely and that I didn’t mind where I stayed but after two weeks I came home one day and my mother surprised me with a surprise reservation, stating it was my graduation present. I’ve been told by my mom that I shouldn’t say how much it was but anyone reading this should believe me when I say I won’t be getting my free trip to Japan anymore. And the sad thing was that the room was really not worth what it cost. I think the hotel room we got at the Regent hotel on south beach for about $5-600 a night was much more functional and comfortable than their senator’s suite. What I’m suspecting is that you pay for the shear size; common for large cities because of their limited space. I wouldn’t have decided to stay there myself.
That night I watched the charm school episode where Brooke finally got expelled and the MTV music awards. We ate bad Chinese food at this local seafood restaurant in Chinatown and bought me a good jacket to wear later on in the week when it would be colder. The Macy’s personnel in Boston are considerable nicer. =)
The bathrooms are like spas but not as nearly impressive as the ones I’ve seen for a much smaller fraction of the price. The breakfast was horribly overpriced. After all the money I knew we spent I simply couldn’t get over how much everything was. She swore it was totally fine. I know that it was true, but I don’t think I could ever shamelessly spend money like that. We left the hotel around 12 to buy my train ticket and then rushed to eat at a dim sum restaurant we saw the other day. This restaurant did not disappoint us at all. =)
We went back to the Four Seasons and grabbed my luggage. I went with my mom to the residence hall an hour earlier. I couldn’t help being so excited as I looked up at the long banners going down from the top of the building with my colleges’ name. A group of friends passed by my cab sitting and riding what looked like a five-person bike. I dream of riding on that bike one day. I got my stuff, like my ID and my room key, made my bed in the dorm with looked like a prison cell and waited around wondering how I’d meet people. I wasn’t long before I heard people come in talked to a few of them and headed downstairs to meet new ones. The girl whom I’d headed down with was a girl who had come from Florida too, calling herself Kalani. We immediately clicked. Then we sat at this long table near the registration tables, meeting so many new people whom I probably wouldn’t single out again during fall. Names slug around and provided so easily. Olga Stephanie, Lindsey, Jennifer and Laura who I’d guessed was my roommate. I starred and memorized her name from the second I looked at my assigned room. We went to our early arrival program, “Shear Madness” where the improvising actors entertained us with a murder mystery plot. After, we headed to the movies in “thin-threaded clothing” to the local movie theatre to watch Mr. Brooks. The movie was great in my opinion. Kalani Laura and I stayed together the entire time. When we got back around 1 in the morning we tried taking Kalani’s mattress out of her assigned room. Not only couldn’t we fit it out of the room, we were really pushing it since her actual roommate was already sleeping. Then we stole the couch in our common room to have Kalani stay in our room rather than with her other roommate. All the rooms pair students up. No one cared that we’d “kidnapped” her. You could probably get away with so much. XD
Yesterday was probably the longest day I’ve had all year. We woke up at 7 am and throughout the entire day we went from seminar to seminar non-stop until 8 PM, thereafter heading to a two hour play, schedule building and my early packing for the train. Math and English placement exams, financial aid internet resources, off-campus housing conventions. When I went to talk to the student advisor to tell her I needed to leave early, I found out that Beth was an alumni from Southwest high school from 1992. She found it ironic that Suffolk had the same school colors and mascot. It was refreshing to meet someone familiar with my hometown. I hope I get to se her again.
Then today, after spending most of the night packing and working out my schedule to fit all my needed classes, I finally made the perfect schedule and met one of my hopeful potential roommates. Megan is her name. I have an advertised housing list and hope to live around the school with 3 other roommates. Two seems too few. Three is fine. Four is a party and what I want. Mixed company, gender and sexual orientation-wise, would prove even more interesting. I look forward to seeing Megan in July for the housing orientation. There were also some boys. Kyle who’s just a friend. Nate and David from Virginia in group 4. The same as mine. They’re super cool and Nate’s just plain awesome. Although I can’t help feeling weird since he’s a political science major. It reminds me of Ricky. Yick. X_x
Other things.
- Everyone seems to be surprised from my orientation group that I don’t know much about Marijuana. I can’t help it if I was a good girl…for the most part. XD
- I got put into Calculus for my starting math class .I tried arguing that since I never took Pre-Cal that I’d be better off in 104, pre-cal, but they seem to have confidence in me. There’s a co-running lower level class that I can switch into if I struggle.
- The biology major counselor suggested doubling up on science labs for chemistry, but I’m not quite ready for that yet. That happens next semester.
- All my classes start after 9 am and end before noon with the exception of Friday. I could get a part time job easily.
- One of my classes involves going to Maine. If Boston was miserable I can just imagine Maine in the cold. T_T
- I’m seriously looking forward to my freshmen seminar class. As I talked about my enthusiasm for the class, my advisor suggested a minor in psychology. I wanted to take it but worried about other things. A minor however is something I may consider. XD
That’s about it with my schedule. I rushed up to the fourth floor to confirm my schedule, ran downstairs to a student orientation leader who walked me back to the resident halls named Anthony and flagged a taxi cab down to go to the train station. I was early by 10 minutes and walked down to my cart. A nice conductor let me walk into one of the business class car and playfully tried keeping my bag away from me as I struggled getting my rolling bag onto the train’s flooring. He’s been laughing at me and poking fun at me every time he passes by to check the new boarding passengers’ tickets. I started writing this in Boston. Last time I knew where I was I think it was in Connecticut. Today was also the first time I’ve ever been to Rhode Island. It’s been beautiful the entire way. I’ve been taking pictures and writing, playing video games and thinking about the coming fall semester. I’m awfully hyper since this is my first train ride. My first REAL train ride. I’ll post pictures up soon.
Now, more than ever I think Augustana’s song “Boston” has just about become my new theme song. Next stop; familiar old New York.
That night I watched the charm school episode where Brooke finally got expelled and the MTV music awards. We ate bad Chinese food at this local seafood restaurant in Chinatown and bought me a good jacket to wear later on in the week when it would be colder. The Macy’s personnel in Boston are considerable nicer. =)
The bathrooms are like spas but not as nearly impressive as the ones I’ve seen for a much smaller fraction of the price. The breakfast was horribly overpriced. After all the money I knew we spent I simply couldn’t get over how much everything was. She swore it was totally fine. I know that it was true, but I don’t think I could ever shamelessly spend money like that. We left the hotel around 12 to buy my train ticket and then rushed to eat at a dim sum restaurant we saw the other day. This restaurant did not disappoint us at all. =)
We went back to the Four Seasons and grabbed my luggage. I went with my mom to the residence hall an hour earlier. I couldn’t help being so excited as I looked up at the long banners going down from the top of the building with my colleges’ name. A group of friends passed by my cab sitting and riding what looked like a five-person bike. I dream of riding on that bike one day. I got my stuff, like my ID and my room key, made my bed in the dorm with looked like a prison cell and waited around wondering how I’d meet people. I wasn’t long before I heard people come in talked to a few of them and headed downstairs to meet new ones. The girl whom I’d headed down with was a girl who had come from Florida too, calling herself Kalani. We immediately clicked. Then we sat at this long table near the registration tables, meeting so many new people whom I probably wouldn’t single out again during fall. Names slug around and provided so easily. Olga Stephanie, Lindsey, Jennifer and Laura who I’d guessed was my roommate. I starred and memorized her name from the second I looked at my assigned room. We went to our early arrival program, “Shear Madness” where the improvising actors entertained us with a murder mystery plot. After, we headed to the movies in “thin-threaded clothing” to the local movie theatre to watch Mr. Brooks. The movie was great in my opinion. Kalani Laura and I stayed together the entire time. When we got back around 1 in the morning we tried taking Kalani’s mattress out of her assigned room. Not only couldn’t we fit it out of the room, we were really pushing it since her actual roommate was already sleeping. Then we stole the couch in our common room to have Kalani stay in our room rather than with her other roommate. All the rooms pair students up. No one cared that we’d “kidnapped” her. You could probably get away with so much. XD
Yesterday was probably the longest day I’ve had all year. We woke up at 7 am and throughout the entire day we went from seminar to seminar non-stop until 8 PM, thereafter heading to a two hour play, schedule building and my early packing for the train. Math and English placement exams, financial aid internet resources, off-campus housing conventions. When I went to talk to the student advisor to tell her I needed to leave early, I found out that Beth was an alumni from Southwest high school from 1992. She found it ironic that Suffolk had the same school colors and mascot. It was refreshing to meet someone familiar with my hometown. I hope I get to se her again.
Then today, after spending most of the night packing and working out my schedule to fit all my needed classes, I finally made the perfect schedule and met one of my hopeful potential roommates. Megan is her name. I have an advertised housing list and hope to live around the school with 3 other roommates. Two seems too few. Three is fine. Four is a party and what I want. Mixed company, gender and sexual orientation-wise, would prove even more interesting. I look forward to seeing Megan in July for the housing orientation. There were also some boys. Kyle who’s just a friend. Nate and David from Virginia in group 4. The same as mine. They’re super cool and Nate’s just plain awesome. Although I can’t help feeling weird since he’s a political science major. It reminds me of Ricky. Yick. X_x
Other things.
- Everyone seems to be surprised from my orientation group that I don’t know much about Marijuana. I can’t help it if I was a good girl…for the most part. XD
- I got put into Calculus for my starting math class .I tried arguing that since I never took Pre-Cal that I’d be better off in 104, pre-cal, but they seem to have confidence in me. There’s a co-running lower level class that I can switch into if I struggle.
- The biology major counselor suggested doubling up on science labs for chemistry, but I’m not quite ready for that yet. That happens next semester.
- All my classes start after 9 am and end before noon with the exception of Friday. I could get a part time job easily.
- One of my classes involves going to Maine. If Boston was miserable I can just imagine Maine in the cold. T_T
- I’m seriously looking forward to my freshmen seminar class. As I talked about my enthusiasm for the class, my advisor suggested a minor in psychology. I wanted to take it but worried about other things. A minor however is something I may consider. XD
That’s about it with my schedule. I rushed up to the fourth floor to confirm my schedule, ran downstairs to a student orientation leader who walked me back to the resident halls named Anthony and flagged a taxi cab down to go to the train station. I was early by 10 minutes and walked down to my cart. A nice conductor let me walk into one of the business class car and playfully tried keeping my bag away from me as I struggled getting my rolling bag onto the train’s flooring. He’s been laughing at me and poking fun at me every time he passes by to check the new boarding passengers’ tickets. I started writing this in Boston. Last time I knew where I was I think it was in Connecticut. Today was also the first time I’ve ever been to Rhode Island. It’s been beautiful the entire way. I’ve been taking pictures and writing, playing video games and thinking about the coming fall semester. I’m awfully hyper since this is my first train ride. My first REAL train ride. I’ll post pictures up soon.
Now, more than ever I think Augustana’s song “Boston” has just about become my new theme song. Next stop; familiar old New York.