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sooo yeah, i haven't really updated in a WHILE, when was the last time, my second day of berkeley? wow, that seems like such a long time ago...what day is it today? october 7th. lets see, so ive been here either 6 or 7 weeks...wow...
so whats been goin on in my life? well, tons. that's just about the only way i can describe it.
between classes, friends, meeting new people, and college life in general, i haven't had much time to sign online. so yeah, if you're wondering why i stopped signing on so much, its because of that.
but yea, i just have to say that my previous worries, about what i could expect at berkeley, were completely unwarranted. maybe its just college life in general, but berkeley far exceeded my expectations. What i expected was a bunch of cut-throat, crazy partying, liberal, weed-smoking, constantly drunk and the like people. What i got was a whole different story. While a great majority of the people on the campus here fall into at least one of those above categories, most of the students are just normal, amicable, down to earth people who I had a pleasure getting to know.
I must say that my biggest worry about berkeley would be that i would never be able to replace my awesome group of friends from HS. but again, it was completely unwarranted. I was lucky enough to find myself an awesome group of people who are as close to christians as atheists can get. And the best part is that we have tons of fun.
Sometimes i worry that i forget the things i've done too easily. I regret that i dont document often enough my activities - so that during the times i'm feeling nostalgic i can't go back and riffle through my past.
So i'll try giving it a try right here.
Ultimate frisbee from 1-3 AM (bounding for touchdowns!!!) its a good thing i got so much practice for this over the summer, haha.
crazy suits + ties dress up nights in celebration of birthdays. haha this was hilarious, we dressed up like CRAZY and walked all the way to the restaurants which turned out to not even be that great. while we were walking everyone we saw turned their heads and STARED. oh yeah and what is it with girls and having guys dress up?
Final fantasy. For some reason our suite got really into FF7 and we all competed to see who could farthest the fastest.
Card games. We mostly did this during welcome week/the first few weeks of school, when everyone didn't really have that much work. It was a lot of fun, and was a great tool to get to know everyone
Pool, foosball, and ping pong. Again, we did a lot of these more towards the first few weeks. Pool was a lot of fun, we had tournaments and stuff among our suite. needless to say i raped everyone in foosball =D. and ping pong, wow! So there was this guy named James in my group that everyone said was really good at ping pong, so when Robby came up to visit I had him go against robby one on one. and wow, before my eyes i saw robby get massacred!! i was like WTF HOW IS ROBBY GETTING BEAT SO BAD. yea. it was crazy.
late night runs. this is probably better described as really early morning runs. or should i say 2 AM runs. yea. 'nuff said.
acting drunk late at night. Haha, this mostly consisted of laughing at all the drunk people, and pretending to act like them. One of my friends, Scott, who is crazy btw, would take his shirt of and run around the street yelling PENIS!!!! at least he did until cop cars started driving by, hahahahahahahaha
soccer. lets see, the last time i played soccer was like, 3rd grade? yea, about all i could really do was use my body to block shots and kick the ball really really far. when it came to getting the ball past someone who knew what they were doing, i bsically got owned. that game is TIRING!
badminton. HAHA i was a joke. i touched my first badminton raquet for the first time in my life and got OWNED by the...birdie? is that what its called? hahah i couldn't ven hit it myfirst few times, and after that it didn't really get any easier. haha i guess ill just leave this to the people who know what they're doing
volleyball. multiple times, TONS of fun, probably because i'm tall enough to play net efficiently =)
NFL Street. this game is SO old, i have no idea why we got into it. my group made its own team and we owned with them. we got so addicted to this game.
HALO 2. played this maybe every other day for the first few weeks, and enetered in a tourney which turned out to be a lot of fun.
Doing crazy thins in general. For example, you know the noise you make when you approve of a food? it sounds something like "MMMMHMMM!" like when you eat a fresh cookie and its freaking DELICIOUS. but yeah, imagine a group of people doing that really loudly and obnoxiously in the middle of the dining commons. what you get is a LOT of weird stares. its fun, you should try it.
oh man, another crazy thing-cardboard sledding at 1:00 AM. There's this hill in front of our dorm and since we dont have ice to go iceblocking on it, we go cardboarding when the sprinklers are on, which is mainly during the night.
Trying to guess a random person's name when their back is turned to you. if you see a good looking girl, yell "KIM! SAMMY! JUDY! ANNA! ELIZABETH! JANE! HANNAH! CHRISTINE!" and maybe you'll get lucky =D
COUNTER-STRIKE! all the guys in our suite LAN CS like at least every other day and we go at it. the girls get entertainment from just listening to our reactions. "OMG WTF I SHOT YOU IN THE HEAD HOW COME YOU DIDN'T DIE" or "DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUDE YOU GOT LUCKY BIOTCH!!!" or "I HATE YOU EDISON!!!!!!!!!!!!!" (hehe i got that one a lot =P)
late night dance parties. this one took me a little bit to get used to. one because its, well, DANCING, and two because well, since most people came from a non-christian school you have to get used to people freaking. which isn't actually as bad as it sounds, but still beyond me. But yeah, once i got used to them, they were a ton of fun. crank up the music and let the crowd go. haha we got written up once for being so loud.
Oh and lets not forget the RUBIK'S CUBE!! oh wow, i've already taught like 15 people to do the rubik's cube, and they've already taught people how to solve it; it just keeps spreading! we have rivalries against other suites, its sooo much fun!!! luckily for me there are only 93 people in this world faster than me, and as far as i know none of them go to berkeley. so yea, im set.
Down to earth good ol' fashioned chill time. Play some music, start up a subject, and we could go on just talking for hours. Discussion time on Friday nights at 1 AM!
Baking and pigging out at 3 AM. what can i say? we were hungry.
Working out. One really good thing about my group is that all the guys work out, so we keep eachother accountable. Haha theres this one rally buff guy who we all look up to, its great.
movie nights. popcorn. a good movie. discussion afterwards. fun stuff.
football games. these things are absolutely CRAZY. what the heck. we have to stand up for the entire game and do these crazy cheers and hand motions and card tricks and stuff. what the heck i didn't know football games were like that. haha well it was an interesting experience and actually quite fun. And really pumping school-spirit wise since our team is actually really good. and since we were playing NFL street recently, i could analyze and compare/contrast plays in the game to real life games.
But yeah, i know i'm missing things, i can feel it. I'll add them as they come along.
Oh yeah, another thing i was worried about when i came to berkeley - that everyone would be incredibly fricken smart. And to some degree, my worry was warranted in this case cause, its UCB we're talking about here, and anyone who manages to get in has to be smart to some degree. My group of friends is crazy smart - we were comparing SAT scores this other day and they were all 'oh yeah i got a 1570' or 1540 or 1590 or something to that degree. there were even a few 1600s. wth. I was like, um...i got a 1490?' =X. and ap scores? lets not even go there. the only thing i can say is that to them a 4 is a disgrace. wtf. so yeah, i was really worried about being below average at first. but then i just realized that its mostly my group of friends thats this fricken smart, the rest of berkeley isn't like this, definately. haha or else i'm screwed
Oh yeah and on a sidenote, daniel hudson, manas agastya, and i all competed in the official california cubing tournament on september 17th. i should call them misters 122nd in the world and 169th in world. officially. haha good job you two, that tournament was a LOT of fun, we're all PUMPED for the next tourney which is in san fran on jan 14th. anyone else interested in going?
so whats been goin on in my life? well, tons. that's just about the only way i can describe it.
between classes, friends, meeting new people, and college life in general, i haven't had much time to sign online. so yeah, if you're wondering why i stopped signing on so much, its because of that.
but yea, i just have to say that my previous worries, about what i could expect at berkeley, were completely unwarranted. maybe its just college life in general, but berkeley far exceeded my expectations. What i expected was a bunch of cut-throat, crazy partying, liberal, weed-smoking, constantly drunk and the like people. What i got was a whole different story. While a great majority of the people on the campus here fall into at least one of those above categories, most of the students are just normal, amicable, down to earth people who I had a pleasure getting to know.
I must say that my biggest worry about berkeley would be that i would never be able to replace my awesome group of friends from HS. but again, it was completely unwarranted. I was lucky enough to find myself an awesome group of people who are as close to christians as atheists can get. And the best part is that we have tons of fun.
Sometimes i worry that i forget the things i've done too easily. I regret that i dont document often enough my activities - so that during the times i'm feeling nostalgic i can't go back and riffle through my past.
So i'll try giving it a try right here.
Ultimate frisbee from 1-3 AM (bounding for touchdowns!!!) its a good thing i got so much practice for this over the summer, haha.
crazy suits + ties dress up nights in celebration of birthdays. haha this was hilarious, we dressed up like CRAZY and walked all the way to the restaurants which turned out to not even be that great. while we were walking everyone we saw turned their heads and STARED. oh yeah and what is it with girls and having guys dress up?
Final fantasy. For some reason our suite got really into FF7 and we all competed to see who could farthest the fastest.
Card games. We mostly did this during welcome week/the first few weeks of school, when everyone didn't really have that much work. It was a lot of fun, and was a great tool to get to know everyone
Pool, foosball, and ping pong. Again, we did a lot of these more towards the first few weeks. Pool was a lot of fun, we had tournaments and stuff among our suite. needless to say i raped everyone in foosball =D. and ping pong, wow! So there was this guy named James in my group that everyone said was really good at ping pong, so when Robby came up to visit I had him go against robby one on one. and wow, before my eyes i saw robby get massacred!! i was like WTF HOW IS ROBBY GETTING BEAT SO BAD. yea. it was crazy.
late night runs. this is probably better described as really early morning runs. or should i say 2 AM runs. yea. 'nuff said.
acting drunk late at night. Haha, this mostly consisted of laughing at all the drunk people, and pretending to act like them. One of my friends, Scott, who is crazy btw, would take his shirt of and run around the street yelling PENIS!!!! at least he did until cop cars started driving by, hahahahahahahaha
soccer. lets see, the last time i played soccer was like, 3rd grade? yea, about all i could really do was use my body to block shots and kick the ball really really far. when it came to getting the ball past someone who knew what they were doing, i bsically got owned. that game is TIRING!
badminton. HAHA i was a joke. i touched my first badminton raquet for the first time in my life and got OWNED by the...birdie? is that what its called? hahah i couldn't ven hit it myfirst few times, and after that it didn't really get any easier. haha i guess ill just leave this to the people who know what they're doing
volleyball. multiple times, TONS of fun, probably because i'm tall enough to play net efficiently =)
NFL Street. this game is SO old, i have no idea why we got into it. my group made its own team and we owned with them. we got so addicted to this game.
HALO 2. played this maybe every other day for the first few weeks, and enetered in a tourney which turned out to be a lot of fun.
Doing crazy thins in general. For example, you know the noise you make when you approve of a food? it sounds something like "MMMMHMMM!" like when you eat a fresh cookie and its freaking DELICIOUS. but yeah, imagine a group of people doing that really loudly and obnoxiously in the middle of the dining commons. what you get is a LOT of weird stares. its fun, you should try it.
oh man, another crazy thing-cardboard sledding at 1:00 AM. There's this hill in front of our dorm and since we dont have ice to go iceblocking on it, we go cardboarding when the sprinklers are on, which is mainly during the night.
Trying to guess a random person's name when their back is turned to you. if you see a good looking girl, yell "KIM! SAMMY! JUDY! ANNA! ELIZABETH! JANE! HANNAH! CHRISTINE!" and maybe you'll get lucky =D
COUNTER-STRIKE! all the guys in our suite LAN CS like at least every other day and we go at it. the girls get entertainment from just listening to our reactions. "OMG WTF I SHOT YOU IN THE HEAD HOW COME YOU DIDN'T DIE" or "DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUDE YOU GOT LUCKY BIOTCH!!!" or "I HATE YOU EDISON!!!!!!!!!!!!!" (hehe i got that one a lot =P)
late night dance parties. this one took me a little bit to get used to. one because its, well, DANCING, and two because well, since most people came from a non-christian school you have to get used to people freaking. which isn't actually as bad as it sounds, but still beyond me. But yeah, once i got used to them, they were a ton of fun. crank up the music and let the crowd go. haha we got written up once for being so loud.
Oh and lets not forget the RUBIK'S CUBE!! oh wow, i've already taught like 15 people to do the rubik's cube, and they've already taught people how to solve it; it just keeps spreading! we have rivalries against other suites, its sooo much fun!!! luckily for me there are only 93 people in this world faster than me, and as far as i know none of them go to berkeley. so yea, im set.
Down to earth good ol' fashioned chill time. Play some music, start up a subject, and we could go on just talking for hours. Discussion time on Friday nights at 1 AM!
Baking and pigging out at 3 AM. what can i say? we were hungry.
Working out. One really good thing about my group is that all the guys work out, so we keep eachother accountable. Haha theres this one rally buff guy who we all look up to, its great.
movie nights. popcorn. a good movie. discussion afterwards. fun stuff.
football games. these things are absolutely CRAZY. what the heck. we have to stand up for the entire game and do these crazy cheers and hand motions and card tricks and stuff. what the heck i didn't know football games were like that. haha well it was an interesting experience and actually quite fun. And really pumping school-spirit wise since our team is actually really good. and since we were playing NFL street recently, i could analyze and compare/contrast plays in the game to real life games.
But yeah, i know i'm missing things, i can feel it. I'll add them as they come along.
Oh yeah, another thing i was worried about when i came to berkeley - that everyone would be incredibly fricken smart. And to some degree, my worry was warranted in this case cause, its UCB we're talking about here, and anyone who manages to get in has to be smart to some degree. My group of friends is crazy smart - we were comparing SAT scores this other day and they were all 'oh yeah i got a 1570' or 1540 or 1590 or something to that degree. there were even a few 1600s. wth. I was like, um...i got a 1490?' =X. and ap scores? lets not even go there. the only thing i can say is that to them a 4 is a disgrace. wtf. so yeah, i was really worried about being below average at first. but then i just realized that its mostly my group of friends thats this fricken smart, the rest of berkeley isn't like this, definately. haha or else i'm screwed
Oh yeah and on a sidenote, daniel hudson, manas agastya, and i all competed in the official california cubing tournament on september 17th. i should call them misters 122nd in the world and 169th in world. officially. haha good job you two, that tournament was a LOT of fun, we're all PUMPED for the next tourney which is in san fran on jan 14th. anyone else interested in going?