don't waste your time, or time will waste you
Well, since apparently there are no Wachovias within 30 miles of State College, I suppose I'm switching to PNC. Bugger.
Oh I graduated, btw. It was pretty cool. A little depressing, rather strange, but mostly cool.
Then on Thursday I left (eventually) for Penn State to go to FTCAP on Friday morning. This was a huge production, because both my parents came with me. My plan involved leaving at 2, beating all the traffic, getting there around 6, checking into the hotel and maybe having a nice dinner and walking around downtown afterward, followed by sleeping so as not to be tired for Friday. An excellent plan, to be sure. But in my parents' world we leave at 5 and check into the hotel and go to sleep. That would've worked too, I suppose. We wound up actually leaving at 6:15, hitting all the traffic on 287 (segue into an excellent dinner at Cracker Barrel - the absolute highlight of my evening). I bought some awesome dinosaur stickers but when I tried to put them on my laptop my dad was like "You're not seriously putting dinosaur stickers on your laptop, are you?" and I explained myself: "They GLOW in the DARK." He told me I was being childish and I told him that I was, if by childish he meant awesome. I did not resume my sticking, however so my laptop remains glow in the dark dinosaur free. >_>
Driving driving driving. My dad had a problem with listening to the Decemberists, but was apparently fine with listening to My Chem. WTF?? Then when my mom drove she bitched about MCR and then bitched about the Chili Peppers. I told her to shut up because there's nothing wrong with the Chili Peppers at all. She did. At this point it was 11 and we still had an hour to go before we got into town. I was pretty frustrated by then too. Ugh.
We finally actually got into State College and are on our merry way down Curtin when suddenly it's closed, WTF. I made my mom turn left down Shortlidge cause I forgot about the Life Sciences building (stupid building, making me look bad) then we eventually got back out to Park with my dad giving us attitude from the backseat about detour signs. Then he started yelling when we were trying to get into the parking garage for the hotel and I was just like "Do you have to yell? It's really unnecessary" and so we all just stopped talking and I ignored both of them for the rest of the night. It was really cool of neither of my parents to listen to anything I had to say, since I was the only one with any fucking clue what I was talking about (except, admittedly, the Shortlidge thing). Then!! Instead of going to sleep at 1230 at night when we have to be up at 6!!! My dad turns on the TV while I'm trying to sleep! And I just burrowed into my bed grumbling to myself in futility.
Friday started out a little better. Except for my dad hogging the bathroom ("Why's it taking him so long to blow dry his hair? He doesn't have that much"). We managed to check out and get out of the building by 715, so that was good. Blah blah walk to Thomas Building, blah blah get some papers, got my id card, got my email (Katie's brain: YESSS FACEBOOK NETWORK). My mom got me a smoothie which I drank...sort of, and a muffin which I didn't even look at. I wonder where it is. Hmm. Back to Thomas Building, watched the first of many short films about college life. Woo-hoo. Then I think we did groups. I was group E, aka group last. Met some other kids. Was the only Art major, was not surprised. There was at least a LARCH girl in there too. Got our "profiles of academic ability" back. It was reaffirmed that I am a beast at English. Didn't do as bad in Chem or Math as I'd thought, so that was fun. Then we went to Random Advisors. Mine asked where OT was and I told her it was near Asbury and she was like "Right, I know where that is, I spent plenty of summers down the Jersey Shore" as if I would think that was a good thing. Bennies do that. Then we went back to our room for "Student 2 Student" random thingies. Two girls in my group got very excited about the lion roar they played and I've been trying to find them on facebook without luck. :(
THEN IT WAS LUNCH TIME YESSSS
we ate in the HUB. I had clam chowder and stole some oyster crackers (which I just ate now). Thennn we went over to the Palmer museum to find my real advisor. There was this envelope with a gardasil ad on it in a packet they gave us and I saw something inside and it looked like free condoms and I got really excited but it was just gum. We Arts&Architecture students left our parents to yet another slideshow and walked over to the Stuckeman Family Building (aka the Architecture building) into a computer lab of lime green awesomeness where we finally met our real advisors and started our scheduling. I got really excited because the computers had firefox. It took me ten years to do my schedule cause my advisor had to reiterate everything we'd spent 3 hours hearing that morning, then I ran into scheduling problems ie full classes/stupid seminar in the way of everything. I fixed it when I got home though, so it was cool.
Afterwards we took a walk to the Willard building so I could get my free flash drive, then it was back to the car then home.
And I really can't wait to go back. :)
My schedule, if you should be so inclined:
http://lionschedules.com/ouooeu
(plus Intro to Digital Photography, which is an online course apparently. Weird.)
Oh I graduated, btw. It was pretty cool. A little depressing, rather strange, but mostly cool.
Then on Thursday I left (eventually) for Penn State to go to FTCAP on Friday morning. This was a huge production, because both my parents came with me. My plan involved leaving at 2, beating all the traffic, getting there around 6, checking into the hotel and maybe having a nice dinner and walking around downtown afterward, followed by sleeping so as not to be tired for Friday. An excellent plan, to be sure. But in my parents' world we leave at 5 and check into the hotel and go to sleep. That would've worked too, I suppose. We wound up actually leaving at 6:15, hitting all the traffic on 287 (segue into an excellent dinner at Cracker Barrel - the absolute highlight of my evening). I bought some awesome dinosaur stickers but when I tried to put them on my laptop my dad was like "You're not seriously putting dinosaur stickers on your laptop, are you?" and I explained myself: "They GLOW in the DARK." He told me I was being childish and I told him that I was, if by childish he meant awesome. I did not resume my sticking, however so my laptop remains glow in the dark dinosaur free. >_>
Driving driving driving. My dad had a problem with listening to the Decemberists, but was apparently fine with listening to My Chem. WTF?? Then when my mom drove she bitched about MCR and then bitched about the Chili Peppers. I told her to shut up because there's nothing wrong with the Chili Peppers at all. She did. At this point it was 11 and we still had an hour to go before we got into town. I was pretty frustrated by then too. Ugh.
We finally actually got into State College and are on our merry way down Curtin when suddenly it's closed, WTF. I made my mom turn left down Shortlidge cause I forgot about the Life Sciences building (stupid building, making me look bad) then we eventually got back out to Park with my dad giving us attitude from the backseat about detour signs. Then he started yelling when we were trying to get into the parking garage for the hotel and I was just like "Do you have to yell? It's really unnecessary" and so we all just stopped talking and I ignored both of them for the rest of the night. It was really cool of neither of my parents to listen to anything I had to say, since I was the only one with any fucking clue what I was talking about (except, admittedly, the Shortlidge thing). Then!! Instead of going to sleep at 1230 at night when we have to be up at 6!!! My dad turns on the TV while I'm trying to sleep! And I just burrowed into my bed grumbling to myself in futility.
Friday started out a little better. Except for my dad hogging the bathroom ("Why's it taking him so long to blow dry his hair? He doesn't have that much"). We managed to check out and get out of the building by 715, so that was good. Blah blah walk to Thomas Building, blah blah get some papers, got my id card, got my email (Katie's brain: YESSS FACEBOOK NETWORK). My mom got me a smoothie which I drank...sort of, and a muffin which I didn't even look at. I wonder where it is. Hmm. Back to Thomas Building, watched the first of many short films about college life. Woo-hoo. Then I think we did groups. I was group E, aka group last. Met some other kids. Was the only Art major, was not surprised. There was at least a LARCH girl in there too. Got our "profiles of academic ability" back. It was reaffirmed that I am a beast at English. Didn't do as bad in Chem or Math as I'd thought, so that was fun. Then we went to Random Advisors. Mine asked where OT was and I told her it was near Asbury and she was like "Right, I know where that is, I spent plenty of summers down the Jersey Shore" as if I would think that was a good thing. Bennies do that. Then we went back to our room for "Student 2 Student" random thingies. Two girls in my group got very excited about the lion roar they played and I've been trying to find them on facebook without luck. :(
THEN IT WAS LUNCH TIME YESSSS
we ate in the HUB. I had clam chowder and stole some oyster crackers (which I just ate now). Thennn we went over to the Palmer museum to find my real advisor. There was this envelope with a gardasil ad on it in a packet they gave us and I saw something inside and it looked like free condoms and I got really excited but it was just gum. We Arts&Architecture students left our parents to yet another slideshow and walked over to the Stuckeman Family Building (aka the Architecture building) into a computer lab of lime green awesomeness where we finally met our real advisors and started our scheduling. I got really excited because the computers had firefox. It took me ten years to do my schedule cause my advisor had to reiterate everything we'd spent 3 hours hearing that morning, then I ran into scheduling problems ie full classes/stupid seminar in the way of everything. I fixed it when I got home though, so it was cool.
Afterwards we took a walk to the Willard building so I could get my free flash drive, then it was back to the car then home.
And I really can't wait to go back. :)
My schedule, if you should be so inclined:
http://lionschedules.com/ouooeu
(plus Intro to Digital Photography, which is an online course apparently. Weird.)