I've been home since late Friday night, feeling vaguely disoriented or lost like I used to when I got home from camp. It doesn't help that the end of finals was an absolute whirlwind, featuring 3- and 4-hour blocks of sleep at night just like fall training and First Days at the beginning of the year, plus running WOOLF leader training workshops ( Read more... )

In a few hours I'll be embarking on a WOC cabin woolf reunion, which I am quite excited for.  I just saw last night (while on the way to my JA interview!) that the 07 woolf leader recruitment posters feature a picture of Jeff and me wearing our leader shirts and garlands and pondering.  I was a bit startled, but they're pretty funny.  And I am ( Read more... )

*whew*  I am in my happy room in Mark Hopkins.  Things are in a major state of disarray still, since I haven't had much time to settle in, and I'm still trying to figure out where to put everything -- hmmm.  But I just made a major breakthrough in lighting involving the strategic placing of a floor lamp and some christmas lights, so I am currently ( Read more... )

I handed in my last paper on the way to my first workshop today, so I'm officially done with all that. WOOLF training has begun, and it's interesting to be thinking about someone else's freshman experience and about how to create the optimal environment for a positive orientation. It feels like going behind the scenes on my own year and ( Read more... )

:) a year ago last weekend I got into Williams ( http://dreadpirateruth.livejournal.com/2005/03/13/ ) amid the throws of a snowstorm in upstate new york. I found out via cell phone conversation with the parentals, and much yelping in the lobby of a very too much ( Read more... )

In the past four says I learned a lot about independence. you know, normal college stuff like peeing in the woods, climbing waterfalls, not showering, and going to the ER without my parents ( Read more... )