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Holy Imagine RIT. I am so dead right now.
According to WROC 8, there were over 20,000 people in attendance. I think the better weather this year definitely helped!
My day started off by lugging a massive box of shirts to the field house. I helped Dre, Jess, JJ and Omar set up our booth for about an hour, and then we were off. Our booth was called "Have a Heart", and it was basically a promotion for Karen's walk. We had a spinning bike where we constantly had brothers on[I did it for about 10 minutes before JJ wanted a go], an EKG machine so people could check out their heart rates, a board promoting Karen's Walk, and face paint for kiddies. I was there until just before 11, and then went with Everett to get the awesome re-usable bag they were giving out. Then it was a mad-dash to the infinity quad to listen to Brick City Singers. They were awesome as always, and Santa was interpreting!
After that, we ventured over to the business building. Along the way I scored a WITR shirt and bottle opener. Inside the business building we got slap bracelets[OH, MY CHILDHOOD!] and water bottles. After looting free stuff, we went back up to the quad and listened to Surround Sound for a bit. My friend was playing at another stage, so Carol ventured with me over there. We stayed for a song or two, then I hit up the science building. They had some sweet exhibits. I really liked the "TV of the Future" booth, where [copy-pasted] "the exhibit features a prototype 30-inch display, constructed in RIT's Munsell Laboratory, that is much brighter that current LCD displays and can also produce a much larger range of light levels from bright to dark." It was insanely clear and realistic.
After thaaat I headed to the SAU. They had a FIRST Robotics display, where they had robots picking up balls and chucking them. By the fireside lounge they had a language area, which was super neat. I got to see the sign alphabet in different countries, and I got my name in Chinese :)
British sign! I was surprised they use two hands for the alphabet. I think it would be a lot harder to fingerspell that way!
Irish sign!
French sign!
And Italian sign!
Throughout the whole day I was tweeting my adventures under the #imagineRIT and #inews tags. What was cool about the #inews was that the Open Publishing Lab was printing papers throughout the day with articles and pictures[their site], and they posted people's tweets! There were only a couple people doing it, so I got in like 10 times XD;
After that I met up with Captain and we headed over to watch the pepband. I MISS YOU BAND. <3 is it October yet?
I had about an hour to kill before I had to volunteer, so Captain and I ventured into the field house again. I ended up watching him get his cholesterol checked, and we caught up with Mike Dumont for a bit[CSH had like 6 exhibits going, so he was running all over!]. Also spotted Bursty by the OPL booth. Didn't know he was involved :)
Then it was time for me to volunteer! I was in a welcome tent in D lot, so we basically collected peoples emails and distributed bags and programs. Everyone was lovely, but there was one crazy old entitlement cow I wanted to punch in the face. We ran out of bags around 3:30; not bad because we only had 10,000 bags and had been open since 10. She was so pissed we didn't have any bags left, and was really snotty. I apologized, and she scoffed and said "POOR PLANNING." Bitch, it was poor planning on your part because you came like 6 hours after the event started and still expected anyone to have free stuff left. GRRR!
Finished volunteering at 5, then headed over to the new Innovation Center that just opened. They probably did about 30% of the construction in the past week, because it definitely didn't look like it'd be finished by today. It looks like a toilet bowl on the outside, but the inside is gorgeous[my friend posted pictures of it here].
I took a busted picture of the inside waterfall:
Then I went with Kassie, Joe and Jen A to the Pita Pit for dinner. Never been there, and it was alright. Got dropped off at the dorms, then compiled info for our 4:30am Jay's trip tomorrow and dropped that off.
And now here I sit. I have to be up in 3.5 hours to shower. BALLS. This really is going to be like Orientation move-in day, heh. I will be popping caffeine pills tomorrow liek whoa. I am excited though. And I got 13 brothers and 3 candidates to sign up for breakfast! yay! Wish me luck, hopefully Karen's Walk will be a success! exclamation points!!11!!1eleventyone!1
According to WROC 8, there were over 20,000 people in attendance. I think the better weather this year definitely helped!
My day started off by lugging a massive box of shirts to the field house. I helped Dre, Jess, JJ and Omar set up our booth for about an hour, and then we were off. Our booth was called "Have a Heart", and it was basically a promotion for Karen's walk. We had a spinning bike where we constantly had brothers on[I did it for about 10 minutes before JJ wanted a go], an EKG machine so people could check out their heart rates, a board promoting Karen's Walk, and face paint for kiddies. I was there until just before 11, and then went with Everett to get the awesome re-usable bag they were giving out. Then it was a mad-dash to the infinity quad to listen to Brick City Singers. They were awesome as always, and Santa was interpreting!
After that, we ventured over to the business building. Along the way I scored a WITR shirt and bottle opener. Inside the business building we got slap bracelets[OH, MY CHILDHOOD!] and water bottles. After looting free stuff, we went back up to the quad and listened to Surround Sound for a bit. My friend was playing at another stage, so Carol ventured with me over there. We stayed for a song or two, then I hit up the science building. They had some sweet exhibits. I really liked the "TV of the Future" booth, where [copy-pasted] "the exhibit features a prototype 30-inch display, constructed in RIT's Munsell Laboratory, that is much brighter that current LCD displays and can also produce a much larger range of light levels from bright to dark." It was insanely clear and realistic.
After thaaat I headed to the SAU. They had a FIRST Robotics display, where they had robots picking up balls and chucking them. By the fireside lounge they had a language area, which was super neat. I got to see the sign alphabet in different countries, and I got my name in Chinese :)
British sign! I was surprised they use two hands for the alphabet. I think it would be a lot harder to fingerspell that way!
Irish sign!
French sign!
And Italian sign!
Throughout the whole day I was tweeting my adventures under the #imagineRIT and #inews tags. What was cool about the #inews was that the Open Publishing Lab was printing papers throughout the day with articles and pictures[their site], and they posted people's tweets! There were only a couple people doing it, so I got in like 10 times XD;
After that I met up with Captain and we headed over to watch the pepband. I MISS YOU BAND. <3 is it October yet?
I had about an hour to kill before I had to volunteer, so Captain and I ventured into the field house again. I ended up watching him get his cholesterol checked, and we caught up with Mike Dumont for a bit[CSH had like 6 exhibits going, so he was running all over!]. Also spotted Bursty by the OPL booth. Didn't know he was involved :)
Then it was time for me to volunteer! I was in a welcome tent in D lot, so we basically collected peoples emails and distributed bags and programs. Everyone was lovely, but there was one crazy old entitlement cow I wanted to punch in the face. We ran out of bags around 3:30; not bad because we only had 10,000 bags and had been open since 10. She was so pissed we didn't have any bags left, and was really snotty. I apologized, and she scoffed and said "POOR PLANNING." Bitch, it was poor planning on your part because you came like 6 hours after the event started and still expected anyone to have free stuff left. GRRR!
Finished volunteering at 5, then headed over to the new Innovation Center that just opened. They probably did about 30% of the construction in the past week, because it definitely didn't look like it'd be finished by today. It looks like a toilet bowl on the outside, but the inside is gorgeous[my friend posted pictures of it here].
I took a busted picture of the inside waterfall:
Then I went with Kassie, Joe and Jen A to the Pita Pit for dinner. Never been there, and it was alright. Got dropped off at the dorms, then compiled info for our 4:30am Jay's trip tomorrow and dropped that off.
And now here I sit. I have to be up in 3.5 hours to shower. BALLS. This really is going to be like Orientation move-in day, heh. I will be popping caffeine pills tomorrow liek whoa. I am excited though. And I got 13 brothers and 3 candidates to sign up for breakfast! yay! Wish me luck, hopefully Karen's Walk will be a success! exclamation points!!11!!1eleventyone!1