As I Promised
Ok, so it took me much longer than it should have to actually type up this entry. Sorry. To be fair, I got home and the next day started working shifts at 7:30am. It's been a rather tiring week and I'm sooo glad it's over. Thomas: sorry I missed your call, I was working. Wasn't it like 1 am there? Anyway, here are my very disorganized thoughts from the traveling alone/orientation/city of Boston experience.
Flight
1. The fields in CO are much more interesting than those in Wisconsin.
2. I HATE flying over water. What luck that Boston and Milwaukee would both be next to rather large bodies of water that pilots felt the need to fly unnecessarily over. Also, between those two airports there happens to be three of the Great Lakes. That was a lot of flying over water. *shudders*
3. Someone in Milwaukee (where both my connections were) thought it would be funny to write "Welcome to Cleveland" on the roof of their building. Evil, but funny.
4. There was a disgusting amount of infants and toddlers on all my flights, but they were all well behaved. It was the one screaming 4 year old that I wanted to strangle.
5. My flight out of Boston was delayed over an hour. The layover in Milwaukee was only supposed to be 55 minutes. However, God has good timing and I waited to board my flight to DIA for,oh, ten minutes. I'm probably the only person who was glad that flight was delayed, and I was only about 20 minutes late getting into Denver.
6. I'm not the kind of person who likes to strike up conversation with total strangers. Thankfully, neither were the four people I sat next to.
7. The subways of Boston are much cleaner and smell better than the subways of New York City.
Orientation
1. I'm officially a college student and registered for all my classes. I'm finished at two every day.
2. I had nothing in common with any of the people I talked to, and it kinda depressed me. But there were only 500 of the 4100 freshmen there, so I still have hope for friendships.
3. There is more demand for housing than the university has available, so students are being assigned to the nearby Hyatt Hotel. I haven't gotten my dorm assignment yet, so maybe...
4. The radio and television stations are run out of the COM building and anyone who wants to do so can help out. There's a student run newspaper also, and they'll let anyone write as long as the person cares enough to write.
5. The main campus is very long and linear. Literally it's about four blocks wide in most places and follows Commonwealth Ave for a couple miles. I walked the entire length several times in two days.
6. Most of the kids were down to earth and real people. However, several girls fell under Thomas and Troy's category of "freshmen." For crying out loud, put some clothes on.
7. While there we took two tests: one writing assessment and one foreign language placement test. After three years of Hylund French I still managed to test out of the first semester of College French. Yay me.
8. It's easy to see where the freshmen 15 is possible. It seemed the whole time I was there all the food made available to me was cookies.
9. To combat those pounds they have a brand new fit and rec center. It's HUGE. Three stories with a climbing wall, olympic size pool, indoor track, three dance studios, giant weight room, etc etc. Maybe I'll stop in a couple times. Then again, maybe not.
10. Saving the best for last, there's Agganis Arena. It's comparable to the Budweiser Events Center. Only about a year old, and I get in free to watch the amazing BU hockey team. Yay.
Boston
1. Humidity here at altitude is a joke. Humidity in the Bay Area doesn't really exist. Humidity in NYC was hardly noticeable. Humidity in NE was horrible. But the humidity in Boston is something else. That's gonna take some adjusting.
2.Everyone was either from Cali or the New England area. One other COM freshman was from Colorado, but only if you want to include Boulder as part of CO. There were three of us there total. Mostly I'm looking forward to all those beach bums experiencing snow and owning nothing more than a windbreaker.
3. I need my mountains! How do they expect me to know what direction I'm going without a guide to which way is west?
4. Mmmm.... city. I love that place. It's an amazing experience.
Flight
1. The fields in CO are much more interesting than those in Wisconsin.
2. I HATE flying over water. What luck that Boston and Milwaukee would both be next to rather large bodies of water that pilots felt the need to fly unnecessarily over. Also, between those two airports there happens to be three of the Great Lakes. That was a lot of flying over water. *shudders*
3. Someone in Milwaukee (where both my connections were) thought it would be funny to write "Welcome to Cleveland" on the roof of their building. Evil, but funny.
4. There was a disgusting amount of infants and toddlers on all my flights, but they were all well behaved. It was the one screaming 4 year old that I wanted to strangle.
5. My flight out of Boston was delayed over an hour. The layover in Milwaukee was only supposed to be 55 minutes. However, God has good timing and I waited to board my flight to DIA for,oh, ten minutes. I'm probably the only person who was glad that flight was delayed, and I was only about 20 minutes late getting into Denver.
6. I'm not the kind of person who likes to strike up conversation with total strangers. Thankfully, neither were the four people I sat next to.
7. The subways of Boston are much cleaner and smell better than the subways of New York City.
Orientation
1. I'm officially a college student and registered for all my classes. I'm finished at two every day.
2. I had nothing in common with any of the people I talked to, and it kinda depressed me. But there were only 500 of the 4100 freshmen there, so I still have hope for friendships.
3. There is more demand for housing than the university has available, so students are being assigned to the nearby Hyatt Hotel. I haven't gotten my dorm assignment yet, so maybe...
4. The radio and television stations are run out of the COM building and anyone who wants to do so can help out. There's a student run newspaper also, and they'll let anyone write as long as the person cares enough to write.
5. The main campus is very long and linear. Literally it's about four blocks wide in most places and follows Commonwealth Ave for a couple miles. I walked the entire length several times in two days.
6. Most of the kids were down to earth and real people. However, several girls fell under Thomas and Troy's category of "freshmen." For crying out loud, put some clothes on.
7. While there we took two tests: one writing assessment and one foreign language placement test. After three years of Hylund French I still managed to test out of the first semester of College French. Yay me.
8. It's easy to see where the freshmen 15 is possible. It seemed the whole time I was there all the food made available to me was cookies.
9. To combat those pounds they have a brand new fit and rec center. It's HUGE. Three stories with a climbing wall, olympic size pool, indoor track, three dance studios, giant weight room, etc etc. Maybe I'll stop in a couple times. Then again, maybe not.
10. Saving the best for last, there's Agganis Arena. It's comparable to the Budweiser Events Center. Only about a year old, and I get in free to watch the amazing BU hockey team. Yay.
Boston
1. Humidity here at altitude is a joke. Humidity in the Bay Area doesn't really exist. Humidity in NYC was hardly noticeable. Humidity in NE was horrible. But the humidity in Boston is something else. That's gonna take some adjusting.
2.Everyone was either from Cali or the New England area. One other COM freshman was from Colorado, but only if you want to include Boulder as part of CO. There were three of us there total. Mostly I'm looking forward to all those beach bums experiencing snow and owning nothing more than a windbreaker.
3. I need my mountains! How do they expect me to know what direction I'm going without a guide to which way is west?
4. Mmmm.... city. I love that place. It's an amazing experience.