College Update?
Yep, I'm in Sarasota, FL at Ringling College of Art and Design!
It's fun times. Well, minus the dreary long speeches. Orientation is so very very long. Basically here's my story from Sunday on...
-Sunday, I left Wilmette, and ended up in Sheperdsville, KT. Sadly, this would be the nicest stop of the trip. The hotel was decent to say the least, and the fact that it was a two room with 2 TVs was rather nice. That way I was not forced to watch more of the olympics than most normal human beings would subject themselves to.
-Monday, I left Kentucky to venture further south towards school. We ended up in Tiften, GA. Oh my, Georgia. It was just a heap of southern fun.
-Tuesday, we made it to Sarasota, FL in the early afternoon. Now here's the fun part of the story! The hotel. It was so decieving at first, with it's charm and nice architecture. Then the room. The 2nd time we had a sink that was outside of the bathroom, and the coffee did not run 24/7. We were given packets for the coffee maker in the room, which was terrible. Oh, and we got shafted on sugar and creamer (powdered creamer at that). So we ended up buying instant and regular cream for the time being.
-Wednesday I started moving my stuff into my dorm room. My roommate is pretty cool, and it's a livable space, y'know? It's just gonna take some getting used to, plus switching back to a loft bed will be interesting. Especially since I have to use a stepstool to actually get up to it. Sad, yes?
-Thursday, I finished moving in, and I started orientaiton! Yippee Hooray...? I think not...well, not so much. If I do remember correctly, the morning was check in, registration, get the common reading book, get your free macbook pro (HELLZ YEAH). Then after that it was do what you will til the buses come to take you to the big lecture day 1! The lectures...go...on...forever.
In any case, after that we all headed back to campus, and had a "cookout". Kinda boring, but whatevs. Then family farewells, and then Playfair. Playfair, there is no really good way to describe this. It was interesting to say the least. And among the massive awkward introductions cohersed by a crazy DJ who apparently does voice overs in Hollywood, I met a few people who are genuinely nice people and who I would actually associate with again (some of whom I have started to already!) But seriously, art kids are the shiz.
And then today! Nyeeerrrrgh. I don't like waking up early. So I still need to get the hang of my alarm clock. I haven't actually used one in years and years and years. So it went off @ 6:30AM, then it went off again at 6:40 AM at which point I couldn't figure out how to turn off the alarm, but I sure could turn on the radio! So i went to the shower, which when you're the first person to use it, you get COLD SHOWER OF FUN! I think it was up to just below luke warm by the time I got out. So I went over to breakfast because somehow for orientation I got placed in the wake up early for breakfast group. Boring, just wanted to get out and get back to the room before the next activities of the day. At that point, we all went to yet another brief lecture, and into the common reading discussion! That was kinda fun at first, and I see the point of it now I guess. In any case, after that I went back to the commons for lunch, at which point I ran into a newfound friend from the previous night! It was fun stuff. She's pretty cool and such. So yeah, we both ran back to our respective dorms, and went to BIG LECTURE OF THE DAY! Safety is important, but I was seriously about to fall asleep. So at the break, we ran into eachother again, she had a couple other friends with her whom I'd met the night before as well. After the return of the lecture, the rest of the night's activites were a bit more enjoyable. I think I'm gonna be happy here, even if this is just orientation right now. Besides, I'm happy knowing that I'll actually have more time after orientation when they're not jam packing my schedule with random stuff.
So yeah, I'll update again at some later point in time.
This has been fun.
Only two more days of orientation, the last day looks to be pretty great.
--Franticc
It's fun times. Well, minus the dreary long speeches. Orientation is so very very long. Basically here's my story from Sunday on...
-Sunday, I left Wilmette, and ended up in Sheperdsville, KT. Sadly, this would be the nicest stop of the trip. The hotel was decent to say the least, and the fact that it was a two room with 2 TVs was rather nice. That way I was not forced to watch more of the olympics than most normal human beings would subject themselves to.
-Monday, I left Kentucky to venture further south towards school. We ended up in Tiften, GA. Oh my, Georgia. It was just a heap of southern fun.
-Tuesday, we made it to Sarasota, FL in the early afternoon. Now here's the fun part of the story! The hotel. It was so decieving at first, with it's charm and nice architecture. Then the room. The 2nd time we had a sink that was outside of the bathroom, and the coffee did not run 24/7. We were given packets for the coffee maker in the room, which was terrible. Oh, and we got shafted on sugar and creamer (powdered creamer at that). So we ended up buying instant and regular cream for the time being.
-Wednesday I started moving my stuff into my dorm room. My roommate is pretty cool, and it's a livable space, y'know? It's just gonna take some getting used to, plus switching back to a loft bed will be interesting. Especially since I have to use a stepstool to actually get up to it. Sad, yes?
-Thursday, I finished moving in, and I started orientaiton! Yippee Hooray...? I think not...well, not so much. If I do remember correctly, the morning was check in, registration, get the common reading book, get your free macbook pro (HELLZ YEAH). Then after that it was do what you will til the buses come to take you to the big lecture day 1! The lectures...go...on...forever.
In any case, after that we all headed back to campus, and had a "cookout". Kinda boring, but whatevs. Then family farewells, and then Playfair. Playfair, there is no really good way to describe this. It was interesting to say the least. And among the massive awkward introductions cohersed by a crazy DJ who apparently does voice overs in Hollywood, I met a few people who are genuinely nice people and who I would actually associate with again (some of whom I have started to already!) But seriously, art kids are the shiz.
And then today! Nyeeerrrrgh. I don't like waking up early. So I still need to get the hang of my alarm clock. I haven't actually used one in years and years and years. So it went off @ 6:30AM, then it went off again at 6:40 AM at which point I couldn't figure out how to turn off the alarm, but I sure could turn on the radio! So i went to the shower, which when you're the first person to use it, you get COLD SHOWER OF FUN! I think it was up to just below luke warm by the time I got out. So I went over to breakfast because somehow for orientation I got placed in the wake up early for breakfast group. Boring, just wanted to get out and get back to the room before the next activities of the day. At that point, we all went to yet another brief lecture, and into the common reading discussion! That was kinda fun at first, and I see the point of it now I guess. In any case, after that I went back to the commons for lunch, at which point I ran into a newfound friend from the previous night! It was fun stuff. She's pretty cool and such. So yeah, we both ran back to our respective dorms, and went to BIG LECTURE OF THE DAY! Safety is important, but I was seriously about to fall asleep. So at the break, we ran into eachother again, she had a couple other friends with her whom I'd met the night before as well. After the return of the lecture, the rest of the night's activites were a bit more enjoyable. I think I'm gonna be happy here, even if this is just orientation right now. Besides, I'm happy knowing that I'll actually have more time after orientation when they're not jam packing my schedule with random stuff.
So yeah, I'll update again at some later point in time.
This has been fun.
Only two more days of orientation, the last day looks to be pretty great.
--Franticc